tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941630785664397334.post3072955649184592749..comments2024-02-28T16:38:28.659-06:00Comments on My Own Genius Hour: Blogging BlundersJoy Kirrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06221084547300439840noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941630785664397334.post-57667603093714893852014-08-09T17:39:33.830-05:002014-08-09T17:39:33.830-05:00Hello Joy. First of all, thanks for this post. It ...Hello Joy. First of all, thanks for this post. It is exactly what I have either gone through, am dealing with right now, or it helps to answer a lot of questions as I move forward. Greatly appreciated!<br /><br />You have been blogging with students longer than I have, as I just started last year. Also, your students are older than mine (3rd graders). So some of the issues that I have are a little different than yours.<br /><br />Having said that, lots of similarities as well. I switched to Blogger this year (used Edublogs last year), and prefer it. That is for my main teacher blog which I would use to highlight what we are doing in class and have the kids comment on whatever skill or concept I wanted to put up there. As far as individual blogs, I am still debating if I'm going to link to a Kidblog for my students or have them use individual Blogger accounts through Google. My students are quite a bit younger than yours, so Kidblog would make it easy, but I do like the idea of letting them continue blogging on Blogger when the year is over. Also I worry about moderation. I know I can moderate comments on Blogger but I'm not sure if I can moderate their posts before they put them up.<br /><br />I am most definitely going to start out teaching commenting skills much the same as you are. We will start by commenting as a whole class on other class blogs and go over what makes up a quality comment. I am going to have my younger students use a friendly letter format and we start out with 2 C's and a Q to help them as they post. The 2 C's and a Q stand for Compliment, Connection, Question. <br /><br />I have seen some other teachers do a Family Blogging Month, so I am going to try that as well to get some more parent participation. Last year I had a few parents who were really good about commenting but I'd like to get more involved. Also I am going to participate again in some blogging activities such as The Global Blogging Challenge and Quadblogging. Those gave my students some audiences across the world and it led to some collaboration with classes in the UK and New Zealand.<br /><br />I'd used #comments4kids last year but I was not aware of the #ICommented hashtag. Thank you!<br /><br />I am passionate about blogging with my students as it was an incredible experience last year. I can't wait to get going on it this year as I've learned a lot so I am hoping for an even more amazing experience this year. We are also doing our own version of Genius Hour (I'm going to call it Wonder Workshop for my younger ones), so putting the two together, should be quite a year!<br /><br />Thanks again for a very helpful post!<br /><br />JaneAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10481510512300854872noreply@blogger.com