Worried about negative comments on your blog? Here are a few suggestions.
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Photo by sebastiaan stam on Unsplash
Worried about negative comments on your blog? Here are a few suggestions.
Read MoreIf there is one thing which really characterises Web 2.0, it’s the ability to comment on people’s work. Commenting is what can, or at least should, make a conversation possible. In this article I’d like to look at comments from both an educational and an etiquette point of view.
I’ve been to several presentations in which the speaker shows a screenshot of someone’s MySpace page indicating that they’ve received 1500 comments about something they’ve posted. My take on this is as follows:
A more important, but more difficult to measure, criterion is how much influence your post has. Shelly Terrell made the following observation in a response to one of my articles:
I have used these posts at various times so just because I'm not commenting on them doesn't necessarily mean they weren't useful.
I’ve sometimes had people say to me, months after I’ve written an article that nobody commented on, that they found it useful.
Also, it’s now possible to read an article in one place and comment about it in another. I typically see comments about my articles on othert blogs, in Twitter and on Facebook. It’s possible, through the magic of RSS feeds, to collate various streams into one place and display it on your website. I find that looks a bit too messy for my liking.
Something I have done in order to keep track of when I or my articles are mentioned anywhere is to set up a Google Alert and a Twitter alert. These let me know, by email, whenever my name is mentioned on the internet.
It seems to me that used wisely, comments on students’ work could form part of your assessment for learning approach. The key to success in this respect is as follows:
I have set myself the following rules:
I like this video too:
That video is a good thing to show to pupils to convey the effects of cyberbullying (because that’s what trollism is) on people.
I also love this feisty response to troll comments. Go to the YouTube site itself for the lyrics.
I found this on the Grammar Girl site about making comments online. It’s a great post and you should definitely read it with your students.
I’d love to know what you think of my comments on comments – but nice ones only please!
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