These are links I found on twitter.http://threefourlonnie.global2.vic.edu.au/how-to-comment/ Here is the link to the blog with the above poster.
Click on the link under this picture to go to a great site on how to teach commenting skills to your class.
I believe it is essential to teach and model good commenting skills, just like we do in maths, reading writing etc.
http://educational-blogging.wikispaces.com/How+To+Teach+Commenting+Skills
I believe it is essential to teach and model good commenting skills, just like we do in maths, reading writing etc.
http://educational-blogging.wikispaces.com/How+To+Teach+Commenting+Skills
My thoughts on teaching commenting skills.....
I already use my morning oral language time to teach and model commenting skills to my class. I enjoy using my morning oral language time as what we are talking about is relevant, useful and chn can relate to what is happening on the blogs we view, or it starts a great conversation if we need further clarification e.g; looking at a blog about romans (england quad blog).
I believe that modeling a good quality comment is essential. Chn can then use the modeling to then write then own good quality comments. I often use our buddy classes blog or our quad blogging buddies blog to model writing comments.
I find after a modeling session chn are putting their hands up and asking if they can then go away and write a comment on someones blog... which proves it's all worthwhile!
with your writing programmes?
A teacher actually came to me at school yesterday (holiday time) and asked if a child in my class would have written a comment on her class blog during the holidays! If it was this particular child then I am so impressed!
My goal is to encourage more commenting at home; after school, weekends and holiday time!
Why comment?
I think chn see relevance in what they are doing when others are making comments on their work. Just like in class with chn's work books.... if you, as a class teacher, or chn as peers are providing comments; feedback and feedforward about their learning this only builds upon chn's current knowledge and then they improve from there.
Commenting on bogs is the same as providing feedback and feedforward only in a different format so chn then feel more motivated and excited out writing on their own blogs which therefore increase their motivation for writing and hopefully their actual writing skills.
I would love your thoughts on the above.....
Hi Marcelle
ReplyDeleteI really appreciated the links you gave us for writing quality comments. I agree with what you've said above. I would also add, that the pedagogy hasn't changed - just the tool! So, this proves to me that modeling good comments, practicing them, and looking for the qualities of good comments is all essential if we want children learning to make productive use of their own blogs as a learning process. I really like the way you use your oral language time to develop their oral literacy around comment making. Haven't we always used oral comments to feedback to each other? Haven't we always taught children how to give feedback orally? It seems a natural progression to move from the oral to the written word! now we are formalising the comment process and writing them down on the internet - not in their leaning logs.
Thanks for your thoughts on this, I really enjoyed exploring this more, and it helped remind me how I should be writing my own comments too!