The Last Challenge In order to answer as I should, I must quote and link to almost every Blog I visited; as I can’t possibly do it, I will address all my gratitude to The Comment Challenge “general quarters”. 1. What did you personally gain from the Challenge? R. A growing sense of belonging to [...]

An Improved New Teaching I’m going to take the liberty to interpret this activity for day 30 as if it was a sort of interview made by Michele  Martin to each of us; it will  spare me a precious amount of time, although I’m very sorry for not being able to respond with the deepness [...]

Project for a  Student’s Comment Guide As I’m running out of time, I’ll try to summarize my thoughts on this activity, without going deeper on the subject, as it requires from me a certain amount of research and reading that I unhappily can’t provide. I apologize for avoiding proper and due quoting to save time; [...]

Foundations for Building a Comment Strategy As for the concept of branding, I had to go through the process of progressively distinguishing several layers in the possible application of this concept of “strategy” concerning comments, ranging from an economical and marketing context up to a more personal one. In the meanwhile, I’ve learned something new [...]

Coping with Branding I had to open Google reader, after all, in order to better understand, through other blogger’s posts, – mainly Ruminations of an Online Instructor, Kevin’s Meandering Mind, Spinning a Learning Web – what “brand” and “branding” were all about. First, I thought it was just about marketing strategy, even after reading two [...]

A Different Way to Comment Shortly after having enjoyed the delightful break we have been given as the 25th challenge activity, I must slow down again: students second tour of tests has started, I’m dwelling with 120 brand new tests from my students and the “National Examination Board” (I don’t know the corresponding words in [...]

Commenting in a Foreign Language It seems that I’ve been doing it since the Challenge began; today, I should comment on a Portuguese post, for a change! I’ve also added the Google Translation widget and I surely would like to keep a double version of the blog. How does it feel to engage in such [...]

Tips For a Great Comment I’ve just found everything I could ever need to write this post on Thoughts on Being a Great Blog Commenter by Kirsty A. Dyer, so I will just write down what I’ve kept in mind about this subject. 1. We must keep focused on the post subject. 2. We must [...]

Highlighting Comments I’ll choose a comment from Michele Martin that turned out to be  important to me as it made me realize how essential it is, when writing a post, to keep faithful to the original thought of another person we are referring to. In fact, the “Newbie Guide to the Bamboo Project” shows to [...]

Offering Ice Cream to Eskimos That is how I felt when fulfilling this activity today about making a recommendation. Comment Challenge allows us to make certain moves and take some initiatives we would not even dream of under normal circumstances. In return, I will try to list all the recommendations about web tools I received [...]