Comments on: Commenting in Blogs http://cac.ophony.org/2007/10/22/commenting-on-a-blog/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:07:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Product Reviews » Commenting in Blogs http://cac.ophony.org/2007/10/22/commenting-on-a-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-23967 Product Reviews » Commenting in Blogs Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:42:05 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/2007/10/22/commenting-on-a-blog/#comment-23967 [...] Yukiko wrote an interesting post today on Commenting in BlogsHere’s a quick excerptCommenting in Blogs What makes a blog lively is not just good posting, but also good commenting. Good/sensible comments could benefit it by sparking more fruitful discussion, and bad/less thoughtful comments could harm it. In that sense, successful blogging should create healthy interaction between writers and readers…. Read the full post from cac.ophony.org Tags: Blogs and Blogging via Blogdigger blog search for read product review. [...] [...] Yukiko wrote an interesting post today on Commenting in BlogsHere’s a quick excerptCommenting in Blogs What makes a blog lively is not just good posting, but also good commenting. Good/sensible comments could benefit it by sparking more fruitful discussion, and bad/less thoughtful comments could harm it. In that sense, successful blogging should create healthy interaction between writers and readers…. Read the full post from cac.ophony.org Tags: Blogs and Blogging via Blogdigger blog search for read product review. [...]

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]]> By: Book Reviews » Blog Archive » Commenting in Blogs http://cac.ophony.org/2007/10/22/commenting-on-a-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-23963 Book Reviews » Blog Archive » Commenting in Blogs Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:08:12 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/2007/10/22/commenting-on-a-blog/#comment-23963 [...] Yukiko wrote an interesting post today on Commenting in BlogsHere’s a quick excerptCommenting in Blogs What makes a blog lively is not just good posting, but also good commenting. Good/sensible comments could benefit it by sparking more fruitful discussion, and bad/less thoughtful comments could harm it. In that sense, successful blogging should create healthy interaction between writers and readers…. Read the full post from cac.ophony.org Tags: Blogs and Blogging via Blogdigger blog search for book new review times york. [...] [...] Yukiko wrote an interesting post today on Commenting in BlogsHere’s a quick excerptCommenting in Blogs What makes a blog lively is not just good posting, but also good commenting. Good/sensible comments could benefit it by sparking more fruitful discussion, and bad/less thoughtful comments could harm it. In that sense, successful blogging should create healthy interaction between writers and readers…. Read the full post from cac.ophony.org Tags: Blogs and Blogging via Blogdigger blog search for book new review times york. [...]

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]]> By: Luke http://cac.ophony.org/2007/10/22/commenting-on-a-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-23960 Luke Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:09:50 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/2007/10/22/commenting-on-a-blog/#comment-23960 I find that for the majority of course blogs that I've supported, faculty do not want outside visitors to be able to comment.  While this might limit the connectedness of the project, it does inform students that the space is (somewhat) protected.  I think that's a good instinct, and the <a href="../../../../2006/10/12/technology-and-the-publicprivate-divide/" title="Public/Private" rel="nofollow">public/private</a> issue is important here.  Yukiko makes a great point about the issues that need to be put on the table before hand, and students especially need to be made aware just how public their writing will be, in addition to being told what type of writing is expected of them.  Like a good class, a good course blog employs lots of different types of writing at different stages in the semester (Cheryl Smith is doing this on her <a href="http://cherylsmith.blsci.org" title="Cheryl Smith" rel="nofollow">blog</a>, where students will over the next month be doing pre-writing for final research papers; they'll be in groups where they are required to comment and ask questions on each others' focused posts).  I do think that course blogs, as we support them now, are distinct in many ways from what you'll find elsewhere in the blogosphere... though they range from wildly different to barely distinguishable.  For instance, at this stage, they're almost entirely finite, married to the semester in which they're produced.  I'd like to change this--portability of content across classes and for students to take out into the world with them is, I think, the future of this technology.  We've started to play with this, by bringing two classes onto one blog, both in a project here at Baruch and one involving a Baruch/Fordham collaboration; we've also discussed having one blog for two classes in a First-Year Learning Community.  Various factors, however, have kept us from really pushing on this front.  But it's out there for us to grab.          I find that for the majority of course blogs that I've supported, faculty do not want outside visitors to be able to comment.  While this might limit the connectedness of the project, it does inform students that the space is (somewhat) protected.  I think that's a good instinct, and the public/private issue is important here. 

Yukiko makes a great point about the issues that need to be put on the table before hand, and students especially need to be made aware just how public their writing will be, in addition to being told what type of writing is expected of them.  Like a good class, a good course blog employs lots of different types of writing at different stages in the semester (Cheryl Smith is doing this on her blog, where students will over the next month be doing pre-writing for final research papers; they'll be in groups where they are required to comment and ask questions on each others' focused posts). 

I do think that course blogs, as we support them now, are distinct in many ways from what you'll find elsewhere in the blogosphere… though they range from wildly different to barely distinguishable.  For instance, at this stage, they're almost entirely finite, married to the semester in which they're produced.  I'd like to change this–portability of content across classes and for students to take out into the world with them is, I think, the future of this technology.  We've started to play with this, by bringing two classes onto one blog, both in a project here at Baruch and one involving a Baruch/Fordham collaboration; we've also discussed having one blog for two classes in a First-Year Learning Community.  Various factors, however, have kept us from really pushing on this front.  But it's out there for us to grab.         

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]]> By: Mikhail http://cac.ophony.org/2007/10/22/commenting-on-a-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-23959 Mikhail Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:51:01 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/2007/10/22/commenting-on-a-blog/#comment-23959 Commenting on other blogs is a surefire way of increasing traffic on your own blog since people reading your comment are fairly likely to click on your name and, at least, visit your blog provided you've included your URL.  They might even start to read and comment regularly. Commenting on other blogs is a surefire way of increasing traffic on your own blog since people reading your comment are fairly likely to click on your name and, at least, visit your blog provided you've included your URL.  They might even start to read and comment regularly.

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