Writing a quality blog comment

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Writing a quality blog comment takes practise.

If your learners are new to blogging and writing their own blog comments start here.

1. Collaborative Activity: Writing a Quality Comment

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 Criteria

Collaborative Blog Comments Activity by Cam @ Kootuitui

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.

2. Learner copy: Writing a quality blog comment

Smart Relationships: Writing a quality blog comment?

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.

Open and Make a Copy - Craft Your Comments

Crafting Blog Comments

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 common 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.

Thoughtful Comments - Make a copy

Writing Thoughtful Comments

Helpful Comments - Make a copy

Writing Helpful Comments

Commenting Resources: Copy, repurpose, print and share

Blog Commenting Challenge from Toki Pounamu

Quality Blog Comments - Share on your class site or print

Quality Blog Comments.png

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.

Open: Six Steps to a Quality Comment