Ok, I'm still miles behind, but I have managed to do some catching up. It took me half the day to figure out how to claim my blog on Technorati and then to add coComments and link the two together (something called a spider???). Haven't a clue what I've managed to do, but I have a coComment button on my toolbar, an account at Technorati and at coComment so I think I've completed the task :) I also joined the Challenge group in Technorati and finally found everyone! :)
I also seem to have completed day 16 - Go Back and Catch Up on Something!
Task = partial completed.
I did comment on a post on internet safety, which happens to be a hot topic with me at present. I have created a PowerPoint presentation that I will be giving tomorrow at my former school on the wonderful virtues of Web 2.0, just ahead of the RCMP who will be giving a presentation on the dangers and woes of the internet and Web 2.0. Hopefully between the two of us, we can create a reasonable amount of knowledge and information for parents and students so they can safely use the wonderful Web 2.0 tools that are available, especially for school.
I think I'm a nervous wreck just thinking about having to do this presentation. I'm not exactly passionate about public speaking, but I have learned a great deal from this activity. I have learned how to create a PowerPoint presentation, how to get a YouTube video to play in it and how to get very stressed out!
But I do have some questions. One of the tasks was to ask a question in a comment, but I am not sure where to ask these questions so I'll put them in my blog and see if they get answered here.
1. I think my RSS reader is not really all that good. It is Wizz RSS 2.1.9 which was an add-on from Firefox. Anyone else using it? Is Google Reader better?
2. How does the coComment work? I have the button on my toolbar, now what???
3. What is the purpose of Technorati?
4. What is a blog roll? Is it something you have instead of a RSS reader or in addition to?
5. Lastly, how do you add the button for RSS to a blog in blogger.com?
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
31-Day Blog Challenge
I found this challenge at:
http://www.theedublogger.edublogs.org/2008/04/30/commenting-learning-and-the-comment-challenge/
through Michelle Martin's blog, the Bamboo Project. It is a challenge to help us become better bloggers and hopefully bring us out of our own little "groups". There are prizes and activities you must complete daily for the next 31 days. I have completed the first two days without signing up. But I have managed to run into trouble very quickly - I can't figure out how to sign up on the wiki! Actually, that is quite funny, joining a challenge I can't even figure out how to sign up for! Off to a rip-roaring start! lol
The entire reason I actually decided to sign up on the challenge was because my faculty associate, Betty Gilgoff, from Simon Fraser University's (SFU) TLITE (Teaching in a Technological Environment) field studies program was in town today and I finally managed to check out her TLITE website http://tlite.edublogs.org/ where she had invited the TLITE students to join this 31-day blogging challenge.
What have I learned so far in my self-audit:
I really found the comment from Gina Trapani's blog "...like being in someone's living room and joining a conversation" very enlightening. For me it was a great way to think about commenting on blogs and also explained why I find it difficult. I'm not that outgoing and I am both careful and hesitant about joining in conversations with others, most especially with people I don't know. So I almost never comment on blogs.
Of the guidelines she gave, I found make the tone of your message clear, a stand out for me. This has kept me off commenting and, for the longest time, off forums. I had enough trouble with this in emails. I had a real "Yikes!" moment emailing a parent from my class when the tone of the email was untendedly misunderstood in a negative manner. Boy, learned quick from that little error. Discovered that smiley faces can do wonders!
Other things I have learned so far:
1. I can't figure out how to sign up on the challenge wiki! Painful!
2. There is netiquette to blogging. I don't want to be seen as a virtual
"Tom Cruise-jumping-on-Oprah's-couch" type commenter.
3. We tend to stick to our own little communities and that "bridging" between communities is
great for sharing ideas between different professions and/or interest groups.
Day 2
Have I commented on a blog I've never commented on? Only two so far, first Michelle Martin's and the TLITE online. I read the netiquette bit by Gina Trapani after I did the first comment. Hmmm, should have read that first!
Trying to catch up: Tomorrow - figuring out how to get a comment tracking service. Hopefully that goes smoother than signing up on a wiki! :)
And if you are part of The Comment Challenge remember to add the comment08 tag to your post. (I hope I did this right.)
http://www.theedublogger.edublogs.org/2008/04/30/commenting-learning-and-the-comment-challenge/
through Michelle Martin's blog, the Bamboo Project. It is a challenge to help us become better bloggers and hopefully bring us out of our own little "groups". There are prizes and activities you must complete daily for the next 31 days. I have completed the first two days without signing up. But I have managed to run into trouble very quickly - I can't figure out how to sign up on the wiki! Actually, that is quite funny, joining a challenge I can't even figure out how to sign up for! Off to a rip-roaring start! lol
The entire reason I actually decided to sign up on the challenge was because my faculty associate, Betty Gilgoff, from Simon Fraser University's (SFU) TLITE (Teaching in a Technological Environment) field studies program was in town today and I finally managed to check out her TLITE website http://tlite.edublogs.org/ where she had invited the TLITE students to join this 31-day blogging challenge.
What have I learned so far in my self-audit:
I really found the comment from Gina Trapani's blog "...like being in someone's living room and joining a conversation" very enlightening. For me it was a great way to think about commenting on blogs and also explained why I find it difficult. I'm not that outgoing and I am both careful and hesitant about joining in conversations with others, most especially with people I don't know. So I almost never comment on blogs.
Of the guidelines she gave, I found make the tone of your message clear, a stand out for me. This has kept me off commenting and, for the longest time, off forums. I had enough trouble with this in emails. I had a real "Yikes!" moment emailing a parent from my class when the tone of the email was untendedly misunderstood in a negative manner. Boy, learned quick from that little error. Discovered that smiley faces can do wonders!
Other things I have learned so far:
1. I can't figure out how to sign up on the challenge wiki! Painful!
2. There is netiquette to blogging. I don't want to be seen as a virtual
"Tom Cruise-jumping-on-Oprah's-couch" type commenter.
3. We tend to stick to our own little communities and that "bridging" between communities is
great for sharing ideas between different professions and/or interest groups.
Day 2
Have I commented on a blog I've never commented on? Only two so far, first Michelle Martin's and the TLITE online. I read the netiquette bit by Gina Trapani after I did the first comment. Hmmm, should have read that first!
Trying to catch up: Tomorrow - figuring out how to get a comment tracking service. Hopefully that goes smoother than signing up on a wiki! :)
And if you are part of The Comment Challenge remember to add the comment08 tag to your post. (I hope I did this right.)
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