Blog Comments: Games and Introductions
The blog commenting is available starting on Tuesday of each week, but remember: there is also an extra credit blog commenting option, which is available anytime during the week.
Last week, you read and commented on introduction posts. For the rest of the semester, you will be reading their thoughts on games design and development and plus introductions each week and leaving comments. You will read the blogs of TWO people, leaving a comment on one of their pieces of writings and also on their Introduction (four comments total).
- Read and comment on the Game Design thoughts you are assigned. If you have already read and commented on the game design thoughts you are assigned, see if there is another game design post on the person’s blog you can read and comment on. If not, then randomly generate another person.
- Read and comment on the Introduction. If you have already read and commented on that person’s Introduction, pick any other post you want at their blog to read and comment on.
Randomiser –
(tested on Internet Explorer and Chrome Chrome users: the randomiser might need javascript running )
Blogger Comments
You will find detailed instructions here for leaving comments on Blogger blogs, along with tips for how to read the comments you get at your blog: Leaving Comments – Viewing Comments. Some students in the class are using WordPress, but you will see that the process for leaving comments there is basically the same as Blogger.
Names Getting to know people’s names is hard, especially in an online class. I’d suggest using “Hi Melanie!” or something like that at the start of your comment just so that you can at least try to let the name sink in. 🙂
Bookmark! When you meet someone in class you want to stay in touch with, bookmark their Introduction post in your collection of class bookmarks. That way, it will be easy to find their blog again.
Replying to comments If you want to reply to a comment someone left at your blog, the best way to do that is to find the person in the Class Directory and leave a comment on THEIR blog. If you reply to their comment at your blog, they might or might not know about that, but if you leave a comment at their blog, they will get a notification.
Substantial Comments Each comment should be 60 words minimum, and of course, you can write more. There are all kinds of ways to do a word count; here’s one possibility: Word Counter.
Problems? If you run into any problems leaving a comment on someone’s blog, just let me know. Send me an email with the person’s blog address tell me what the problem was, and include your comment in the email. That way I can pass the comment along to the person and help them to fix up whatever problem might be keeping people from leaving comments.
Declaration. Here is the Declaration you will complete. And if you want to keep on commenting, you can do the Extra Credit Blog Comments assignment too if you want!
| PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: I followed the instructions to find TWO people to connect with. I wrote FOUR comments total = two comments for each person. LENGTH. Each of my comments is at least 60 words long. |
