Commenting on blogs

Today I asked children to comment on their learning buddy's blog today via the middle school sites links  Links to all class blogs. It was a great way to help the children to understand that their audience is not limited to just teachers and parents. From my studies at Mindlab I found that commenting is a powerful means of engaging children in their learning as well as giving them an authentic audience that will give them meaningful feedback. My next steps are to scaffold the children through the commenting process and hopefully, they can then become the experts and encourage their parents to do so too.