Mrs Banjer’s Little Bytes

Leaving a single comment on a blog and then moving on isn’t necessarily the best way to engage in a conversation or use blog commenting for learning. It’s more of a one-way, once-and-done approach that doesn’t take full advantage of what commenting can do for you. To really engage in conversations through blog commenting, you need to develop some effective strategies for managing the comments you make on other blogs. A comment tracking service is a great solution.

While there are several you can choose from, one of the best tools to use is coComment. Sue Waters has written an excellent post with instructions and pictures on how to sign up and manage your comments using coComment. Once your account has been set up, you will then be able to follow your commenting activities through your RSS feed, making it much simpler for you to keep track of all your comments.

Your task for the day is to sign up for coComment or another comment tracking service. Be sure to add your comment feeds to your reader. And if you blog about your experience, add the “comment08″ tag to your post.

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Well, that hit the nail on the head!  The comment I made for the Day 2 entry was a one off, perhaps that is why Merrolee didn’t publish it, she might want to engage in lengthy communications rather than simple greeting style comments.  Hmmm.  Lesson taken on board.

I have signed up to Cocomment.  I have the widget in the bottom right corner of my screen but have no real idea how to use the features.  Off to do a short research exercise.  I really must get on to report cards so I can focus on my final assessment item for FET8610 – Major web site.  Interesting how I have lost a bit of interest in this subject, another student was quite scathing with my focus on Web2.0 tools and it made me sit back and wonder if I was doing the right course if other educators were questioning my proclamations about the value of Web2.0.  Up until that point I had also been receiving HDs for assignments, GPA 7.  To receive a credit for my paper was a blow as well.  Maybe I am on my own with this.

Anyway, I’ll reflect on that later.  Back to cocomment.  Forgot password!  Oh boy.  coComment is very slow loading, does anyone else have this issue?

I’ve joined the Comment Challenge group.  Now I have to work out how to use an RSS feeder.  I use Flock and somehow managed to include Sue Waters comments and my own blog onto that.  I shall now apply myself to working that function.  This is an excellent diversion tool to keep me from reports.  Thanks.

Done.  Not so hard to work out.  I feel so focussed … on the wrong thing!

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