- Question: Where to find blogs specifically from other places around the planet?
- Question: Do I pre-screen the blog for age-appropriate content?
- Answer: http://comments4kids.wikispaces.com/ - A wiki established to post links to kid-created content worth commenting on.
Details of the origins of #Comments4Kids from Twitter conversations between a group of like-minded educators can be found at:
The question of assessing my student's posts is still an open one...
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I am glad you found some answers to your questions. The main way I find blogs to comment on is through Twitter and through blogs I already have made connections with. We use a hash tag on Twitter to identify posts we like #comments4kids. You can do a twitter search and find them.
Assessment is a different story entirely. How you assess must be determined by what you want the students to accomplish. Honestly, I don't give a grade on their comments. I never have.
Last year I taught fifth grade and I had the students commenting because blogging had been very good to my class. We have made many good friends using our class blog and I saw it as a way to "give back" to the educational blogging community.
This year I moved positions and teach keyboarding so it gives my students a real reason to learn keyboarding. It has been very successful; they look forward to Wednesdays.
My informal assessment of my students comments is simply reading their comments and making sure they are positive, relevant, and appropriate for the post. I only take grades on assessments anyway so unless I determined their commenting to be an assessment I wouldn't take a grade on it. It is much more likely that I would give the students an assignment to write a blog post on their experiences with writing comments and grade that instead.
Mr. C
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