thing7

=Thing #7 - Creating Community Through Commenting=

**Introduction**
The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. A blog is a vehicle for a group of people with common interests to communicate, share, and learn in spite of barriers of time and distance.

While blogging starts with reading, commenting is what keeps the conversation going. In this Thing, you will learn why commenting is important, when commenting is appropriate and have a chance to leave some comments of your own.



**Discovery Exercise**
Read 3-5 of the following blog posts about the importance of commenting:


 * [|How to Comment Like a King (or Queen!)]** from Cool Cat's blog.


 * [|10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog]**

**[|Your comments?]**

**[|Are you contributing to the general discussion?]**

**[|Edublogger Etiquette: Responding to comments]**

1. Make at least one comment on each of the blogs that you "adopted" in Thing #6.

2. Make at least one comment on some (more than one) of the blogs that you added to your RSS reader in Thing #6.

3. Write a reflective blog post about the importance of commenting and your experience making comments for this activity. Be sure to include Thing #7 in the title of your post.

4. Continue to comment on your adopted blogs and others that you read throughout the class.