Writing a quality blog comment
Writing a quality blog comment takes practise.
If your learners are new to blogging and writing their own blog comments start here.
Make a copy of Writing a Quality Comment: Our ideas and embed on your learning site. Take time to co-construct success criteria with your learners for writing a quality blog comment.
Encourage your learners to consider and reference the slide deck they used to record their ideas previously - What is a quality comment?
Compare and contrast Writing a Quality Comment: Our ideas with the Manaiakalani Cybersmart Quality Comments
Depending on the age and digital fluency of your learners consider options to replace the Google Doc option.
Create a collaborate Jamboard, share with learners. Form groups of 2-3 and share their ideas on a frame in the Jamboard.
Use your computer to read your comments back to you - Read&Write for Google Chrome
Ask your Google Admin to push this out to Chromebooks
If your learners are familiar with Cybersmart Quality Comments and your goal is to revisit the elements of quality comments consider starting here.
Writing a quality blog comment takes practise.
Use a Slide Deck or Google Doc to practise writing blog comments.
If your learners have been blogging and commenting for 1+ years consider the repurposed slides below to focus on specific elements of a blog comment.
Learners copy and paste the link to the blog post they are writing a comment for on their doc/slide. This enables them and you to quickly locate the post from Google Drive.
Take time to share and compare comments i.e. Using Teacher Dashboard cast to classroom display, compare and contrast comments with commenting criteria.
Reference your usual classroom process for proof checking/editing writing.
Reference the graphic for publishing a blog comment. Learners copy and paste their comment from the slide to the blog when they are confident it is ready to share. Take time to ensure learners are confident with the actual process of publishing a blog comment.
Teachers can also copy and paste comments from learners' docs to the blog and publish on their behalf. This is helpful if your learners are starting out with 1:1 devices and may not have a blog yet.
Craft Your Comments
A repurposed version of the slide deck Writing a quality blog comment
For learners who have their own blog and are posting comments regularly and independently on other learners' blogs.
Includes links to word banks of Greetings, Endings and comment starters for quick reference.
Provides a record of comments and learners can duplicate slides as needed.
Supports opportunities for commenting to be scheduled as an independent task at a regular time each week.
Focusing on elements of a quality comment
Take time to focus on a specific element of a comment and collaborate with your learners to write a comment in response to a blog post.
Teacher Models - cast blog to a screen and read together.
Type the comment with input from the learners into a copy of the slide below.
Talk aloud encouraging use of vocabulary prompts in response to Cybersmart commenting criteria e.g. does the blog post remind us of something similar, can we add more information, can I ask a question
Model proofreading before publishing
Encourage use of power words and proper nouns in comments.
Learners make a copy of the slide to craft their comments before submitting on the blog.
Prompts and example they have written with you can also be referenced.
Commenting Resources: Copy, repurpose, print and share
Recognising a blog comment of the week or month
Set up similar to blog post of the week
Invite learners to vote via a Google Form. Include success criteria as a dropdown and upload a screen grab from the blog in support or voters create and share a DLO on their blog in support of their nomination.
Ngā mihi nui - our team in Otaki have created and shared these blog comment sentence starters in te reo pakeha and te reo māori
Create a Commenting Card for Whānau
This support card is available to copy and personalise for your learners. Languages supported include English, Te Reo, and Niuean. Tongan and Samoan available shortly
Instructions for download:
Personalise for your learners.
File - Download - PNG
Downloaded files can be shared digitally or printed
Thanks to Karen Belt : Whānau Blogging Support
Sentence Starters by Kelsey @ Urū Manuka
CyberSmart Commenting License Template Made By Laura Walters YMS.pdf