Leaving Good Blog Comments

I read a chapter from the book Teaching the iGeneration and I focused in on the section that was about leaving good blog comments.  This talked about the features of good blogs one of those features being an interactive blog.  It is important that you use the internet to not only communicate with others, but also to accept their feedback.  This chapter also talked about how to gather the appropriate information needed to leave a good quality blog comment.  You must have facts, make connections, ask questions, and give opinions.  Having all of these features will allow you to craft an acceptable and good use blog comment.  I think that the two charts that this book provides you with how to gather your thoughts and then how to craft your comments would be helpful to providing your students with a good rubric and good guideline for not only responding to blogs, but it would also help them think about how to create effective and useful blogs that are easy for others to interactive and respond with.  This would be a great thing to go over in an upper elementary school classroom as well as middle and high school classrooms.  It would be an easy and effective way to have your students discuss important issues and then allow for other opinions and viewpoints to be raised that would cause them to think more about the issues at hand.  I found this small section of this book very helpful and I am sure that there are more effective and useful tools that you could find inside of this book that would help you to reach your students in a more efficient and effective way.