Comments

There are three different types of comments you have to do in EDM310.

Your assignments for commenting will be found in your Google Docs.

Comments for TEACHERS:

Each week you will be assigned a teacher who blogs regularly. You will find the teacher’s name and a link to their blog in your Google Docs as appropriate. You must read the most post that the teacher has made to his or her blog as long as that post is not a “housekeeping” post. Manual. Two weeks later you will comment on that teacher’s blog post again. After you have commented for the second time on a teacher’s blog, you must POST to your blog a summary of what the teacher covered in each of the posts on which you left a comment and you must also summarize your comments. In most cases it is easier to do immediately after you have read the blog post and commented on it. Write your required post after every comment but do not publish it until you have completed the second comment. Again, PROOFREAD your comments and your posts! And your comments must be substantive!

To help you keep track of the C4T assignment I have devised this numbering system: 2 C4T#1 means the second comment for the first teacher assigned to you. 1 C4T#3 means the first comment for the third teacher assigned to you.

To summarize, every second week you comment on a teacher’s blog as assigned to you. Every 4th week you publish a post which covers both of the teacher’s posts and both of your comments. Then you will have a different teacher assigned to you. 

Comments for CLASSMATES:

Each week starting you will have an assignment to comment on a classmate’s blog post due the previous Sunday. The specific student to whom you are assigned will be found in a Google Doc to which you have access. You will be assigned a different student every week. Your comment is due by the next Sunday midnight. If a student has not posted on time, send an email to edm310comments@gmail.com giving the name of the student and this message: Student’s name did not post last week. Then choose any other student that did his or her post on time and leave a comment on his or her post. We automatically get copies of all comments and will see the comment you leave for a different student. And your comments must be substantive! “I agree with you” is not enough. Tell why you agree, what concerns you have, what questions are raised by the post, how your reactions to the assignment were different (if they were). Read the comments we leave and use them as models. The first Sunday of every month you are required to post a summary of the comments you have left for kids the previous month. 

Comments for KIDS:

Each week you will be assigned a blog of a student (or a blog of a class in which the teacher posts a student’s work). You will be required to leave a comment no later than Sunday midnight. You will find the student to whom you are assigned and and instructions on how to find the post on which you are to comment in a Goole Doc to which you have access.