lesson 2 - blogs and commenting

Blogging and

Edublogging

2: Blogs Grow with Comments

Seth Dickens www.digitalang.com

Blogs Grow With Comments

“Blogs are not just a one way road.”

Comments on your blog will: Enhance and develop communication

Give you a chance to interact with each other,

your teachers and your PLN in a different way

Commenting helps you to engage

with your learning.

Commenting on other blogs helps

you to connect to other people.

Blogs Grow With Comments

Today’s Tasks

Tell us your blog address.

Use some html

Look at this sentence. It has a hyperlink.

This is Seth’s Blog. Go have a look if you want.

If you click on the words “Seth’s Blog” you go to

a new webpage.

To do this on a web page we need some

simple html code.

This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/">

Seth's Blog</a> Go have a look if you want.

Lets look at this code

This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/">

Seth's Blog</a> Go have a look if you want.

1) The web address

This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/">

Seth's Blog</a> Go have a look if you want.

This is the web address I want

2) The text you want

This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/">

Seth's Blog</a> Go have a look if you want.

This is the web address I want

This is the text I want people to read

3) The HTML “Anchor” tag

This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/">

Seth's Blog</a> Go have a look if you want.

This is the web address I want

This is the text I want people to read

This is the HTML that makes the link appear

Lets look at that again

This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/"> Seth's Blog</a>

http://www.digitalang.com/blog

<a href=“ "> </a>

Seth's Blog

Lets look at that again

This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/"> Seth's Blog</a>

<a href=“ "> </a>

http://www.digitalang.com/blog

Seth's Blog

Blogs Grow With Comments

Commenting tasks 2

Visit 5 of your colleagues’ and leave a

comment on any post that interests you

Try to leave a comment that engages with

the writer and encourages interaction ask

questions

Leave at least one comment that contains

a link to something relevant to the post.

Complete your blogging register.