So when I went to ISTE a couple of weeks ago, I arrived with one question on my mind - if I am trying to get our students to develop a digital footprint and do meaningful work, rather than "blog because Mr. Howe told us to," how do I get people to respond to the students' blogs. After all, if they dutifully blog and nobody answers, then that blogging wasn't very meaningful, was it?
I got two possible answers from a session from Chris Moore and Niki Vander Velde
1) To get people to follow you, you have to make meaningful comments on their blogs and twitters. I must admit, I'm more of a "lurker" personality on blogs, but I am going to try to be more participatory now. I want to model what I am asking of our students, and (frankly) I want to build contacts.
2) I need to check out comments4kids. I'm curious what the best way of utilizing that website will be with a bunch of individual footprints - I only saw an example with younger students and a class blog.
Any other ideas out there?
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