Comment Challenge Day 26: Exploring Other Ways to Comment

My opinion on multi-media enhanced commenting is biased because I spend at least half of my computing time each day on a computer without a mic or a webcam.  I would advise against replacing text-based commenting with audio or video commenting, but I think audio or video commenting have a lot to offer blogging.
I found [...]

Commenting on a blog in a foreign language (Comment Challenge 24)

This was the scariest challenge so far. Since I can read Spanish tolerably well (though writing and speaking Spanish are much more difficult for me), I looked for a blog in Spanish. I used Google Blog Search with the keywords, “educacion tecnológica” and found this blog: Educación tecnológica. (I should have [...]

What makes a great comment? (Comment Challenge 23)

A good comment is:

on-topic,
succinct,
and it makes the reader smile

A great comment is:

on-topic
succinct,
it makes the reader think,
and it makes the reader want to respond

Good comments let the author of the blog know that they were heard, understood, and even appreciated, but great comments push the conversation forward.

My Favorite Comment (Comment Challenge 22)

For today’s activity, you’re going to review comments you’ve previously received on your blog and highlight one or two of them in a post, explaining WHY you liked the comment(s). Were they thought-provoking? Did they ask a great question? Did they encourage you at a time when you needed it? Be sure to link [...]