My Favorite Comments for Day 22

May 22, 2008 at 6:29 am | In 31 Day Comment Challenge, Blogging, Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer, Educators Online, Ruminations Blog, comment08 |
Tags: 31 Day Comment Challenge, comment08, Education Blogging, Education Blogs

Quotation Marks Today’s task is to look for favorite comments left in the Rumination’s blog and then highlight why I LIKED the comment. I pulled quotes from several areas: clarifying, tips, corroborative & community building.

Favorite Comment Clarifying Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

Michele’s comment helped me to clarify the differences between Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0.

Michele Martin| The Bamboo Project Blog

I think that the biggest difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is that it’s about creating community. That means people coalescing around shared interests and “talking” about those interests through blogging and commenting (including comments on things like Flickr photos and YouTube videos). Think of it as a party where some people will just sort of watch on the sidelines, taking it all in, never saying a word. Others will want to interject now and then with comments. Still others will be all over the place, interacting in a variety of ways. But all people have the option to participate when and if they want to.

It’s really very powerful, although I’ve found that people are so used to being one-way passive recipients of information (i.e., the TV model of interacting with technology), many are having difficulty making the switch to being empowered to take online action. But when everyone gets it, that will be the REAL revolution!

Favorite Tip Comments

Betty left me a great tip for using Google Docs with students. Sue passed on a good resource for me to review about Diigo.

bgilgoff | Betty Online

…another way of having students collaborate is with google docs. It also tracks history of participation but is more similar to a word document and less public than a wiki. I use it sometimes with my colleagues and have used it with grade 4/5 students. The most effective use though that I’ve seen is the way that my son uses it with other students in some of his university classes.

Sue Waters | Mobile Technology in TAFE

Most of the educators are really liking diigo. Check out Liz Davis’s screencast on Diigo — it may help you.

Favorite Corroborative Comment

Christine’s comment help me to realize that I wasn’t the only one who felt frustrated when working on online collaborative efforts.

Christine Martell | VisualsSpeak Blog

I would have loved doing my collaborative work in grad school on a wiki. It was very annoying to be the one who carried others to good grades!

Favorite Community Building Comment

Christine was one of the recipients of the creating community with other commenters award. This was her response to being an award winner.

Christine Martell | VisualsSpeak Blog

Thanks Kristi. Community is very important to me, and I actively facilitate it in the offline parts of my life, but I never felt I did it very well online. So I particularly appreciate the encouragement, and hope I can learn to do even a small part of what Sue and Michele do.

Day 22: Highlight a Favorite Comment

Today’s activity was to review comments that have been received on the blog and highlight one or two in a post.

Then the task is to explain why you liked the comment whether they were thought-provoking, asking a good question or providing encouragement.

Accomplishments Day 22

Reviewing my blog comments.

Discovering that I’ve received a lot more comments than I’d thought during the 31 Day Comment Challenge.

Picking out my favorite comments.

Figuring out a way of organizing the comments.

Writing and Posting for Day 22.

Reflections & Revelations for Day 22

It was great to have an easier challenge for today and one that I was able to complete in a reasonable length of time. The greatest revelation was discovering just how many comments I’ve received to the Blog as part of the challenge.

This blog post is part of The Comment Challenge, comment08.