This is an activity to help you think about the quality of your comments as well as what makes a quality comment. |
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- Follow each step below. Remember this is also an activity which requires you to use your reading comprehension skills.
- Read the Commenting Guidelines under the red heading below.
- Now watch a video by clicking on the green link below the commenting guidelines, made by Year 5 students.
- Next, click on the link directly below in blue, to see a range of comments left on an imaginary blog.
thumbs up or thumbs down sorting activity - Create a new post and rate these comments from the above link in order from the least helpful to most helpful.
Which is the most helpful and WMYST?
Which is the least helpful and WMYST? - Next make a comment about what you have learnt in this activity on our class blog, in the post called,
“We have been learning about making comments on other people’s blogs”.
Commenting Guidelines
Commenting is what brings a blog to life. Comments are also a significant reason why people write blogs – they want to get people thinking and communicating.
Your comments should aim help to keep the learning going, to keep the conversation going.
Here are some important guidelines to follow when you are making comments. Thanks to ‘Guidelines’ written by the 2009-2010 bloggers of Huzzah!
- Make your comment worth reading.
- Start a conversation.
- Be positive, interested, and encouraging.
- If you disagree, be polite about it.
- Connect with the post: be on topic.
- Re-read your comment before you hit submit–think before you send!
- Aim for correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
- Don’t use chat or texting language like lol, i, or u.
- No “Hi! Visit my blog! Bye!” comments. Be thoughtful.
- Keep your privacy: no personal or identifying information about you, your family, or your friends. Don’t give out last names, school name, phone numbers, user names, or places and dates you can be found.
Together we will practise commenting and create our own set of guidelines to help us write really appropriate and effective comments.
Watch this excellent Comments video shared by Andrea Hernandez made by a 5th Grade student.
I learned that when you make a comment on someone’s work you need to make it relevant and helpful not useless.
– Poppy C
I have learnt to be kind and be helpful to others because it will be helpful to give feed back to others. Giving feedback to others will be helpful because they might need feedback of what they need to improve on.