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Comments for Kids

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This is my response to the Comments For Kids assignment. I had to go to the blogs of 3-5 kids and leave them comments.

The first comment left was for the talking watermelon. My comment seems to have dissapeared though.

YAY!!!!!

The second comment I left was for Elizabeth.

https://elizabethyland.blogspot.com/2016/11/activities-outside.html#comment-form

My third comment was for Bryan. My comment appeared, but my name and my blog don’t show up with it even though I entered them.

https://tbryana.blogspot.com/2016/11/week-4-gaia-hypothesis.html

It was an interesting experience, but overall, it really wasn’t dramatically different from commenting on the blogs of other adults. I think it is really cool that blogging is actually being taught in schools. These kids are getting a huge head-start in navigating cyber-space compared to where I started. When I was growing up, the internet was this nebulous thing that schools ignored for the most part.

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Comments for Kids

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This section has focused on the future of learning, and with that in mind I tried to pick out an appropriate DS106 assignment. Right away I saw “Comments for Kids” and knew it was perfect. After reading the Gardner Campbell article (and responding) I felt like this fit very much with what he was saying… except these kids, who are already creating online identities through blogging, aren’t even in high school. Although I mentioned that my experience creating online also started in middle school, it had nothing to with any classes and I was never given the opportunity to “blog” as part of a curriculum. For some projects I did do “mini” websites just to impress teachers, but there was no guidance involved. This particular exercise is called “Challenge Yourself to Blog” and the below students are participating in it.

One thing I’d like to point out is that these kids having online blogs opens them up to a lot of potential internet activity that could be harmful. It would be extremely sad if someone were to abuse commenting or something worse. Hopefully the teachers involved are monitoring everything closely because this is a very young age to be putting yourself online.

I’d like to share the comments I left with some students blogs and why I chose their blogs. Primarily the ones I looked at were all interested in video games because that also interests me so I figured there might be some cool posts.

Brandon’s Awesome Place – 8 years old, USA

I thought the layout of Brandon’s site was pretty cool (very grassy) and his blog contains some cool Minecraft screenshots. I was quite surprised to see an 8 year old playing that game (it’s kind of like a digital version of Legos). I commented on the first post, “My Spring Break”, which is shown in part in the screenshot. My comment was:

I love IKEA! The furniture there is cheap, but there’s some pretty cool stuff.

Keep blogging, it’s awesome that you have the ability to start creating an online identity so young. I’m only 22, but I never got the chance to create a blog as part of a class when I was in school.

Pretty simple and short, but I do think there are some cool pieces of furniture at IKEA.

VJ,s Blog – 8 years old, New Zealand

I wanted to look at a student’s blog that was outside of America, so this was one of the ones I found from New Zealand. One of the posts that caught my eye was “Purple Cake Day” and was about empowering impoverished kids and raise money for them in order to get a better education. It gave me an interesting perspective on this section because we’re talking all about how our own education needs to be improved in relation to the internet, but we haven’t discussed nations whose students don’t even have access to that sort of technology. My comment:

I think it’s awesome that students such as yourself have access to a class that teaches you how to create in an online environment. Your post made me keep in mind though that there are kids out there that don’t even have access to a computer at school if they even have the ability to get a basic education.

I guess we have to appreciate what we have while also helping others. Sounds like you had a good time at least!

Wanted to express some of my thoughts that I had while not getting too technical. Sounds like the purple cakes were good at least.

Tristan’s Blog - 11 years old, Canada

I picked this blog because of how much more professional it was than most of what I had seen. This student is also older, 11 vs 8. Commented on the first post, I thought it was great that this user was showing off some of the other students’ blogs that he found interesting. That’s a great level of social interaction that I hadn’t found at any other blog. My comment was:

Thanks for sharing these additional blogs! I’ve been really impressed by what students have created. Hope you’re having fun with blogging and creating on the internet! Great to see the opportunity to learn blogging skills at an early age.

In retrospect I wish I would’ve added in about the social aspect of his post. I wrote this blog after commenting.

Summary

I’m so glad to see that students are getting the opportunity to explore the internet in a school setting. It’s very heartening to know that at least some of the next generation is getting a chance to try out tools that they’ll probably be using for years to come. The more tech-savvy kids get the more opportunities for discovery I see.

The internet is such an amazing canvas with unprecedented opportunity. Whether it’s college students or elementary schoolers, I think it’s always a good idea to learn how to create a digital identity. Overall this whole blogging challenge seems to be a big step in the right direction.

- Paul

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COMMENTS FOR KIDS ASSIGNMENT

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This was an assignment we were to do from the DS106 website called “Comments for Kids located HERE. the blogs I chose to comment on were:

Lamillya’s blog at http://le7tres.edublogs.org/2012/03/09/seuss-books-by-dr-suess/#comment-16

Ayden’s blog at http://blogs.csdvt.org/techkidayden/2011/12/01/my-book/#comment-39

Lilly’s blog at http://blogs.goaj.org/lillianbobcat/2012/04/01/mary-anning-fossil-finder/#comment-18

Hmmm… describe my experience, huh? Well…I don’t know, I just got through writing the comments, so, there’s not much to describe. I was kind of amazed at some of the things these kids are doing at their age. I mean… I didn’t see anyone that actually listed their age in their “About” sections, Lilly had a picture on hers, but other than that, I could only guess they were pretty young. Seems to me at the age I’d estimate most of these kids were, I was probably still working on “Go Pug Go” and all that sort of thing, but, these kids are out there blogging. AMAZING!

Anyway… maybe I’ll have more to say later, maybe one of them will drop me a message back or something. For now… well… I’ve got an over abundance of other assignments to do so… BYE.

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DS106: Comments For Kids

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The Assignment

In the Writing Assignments, I found the assignment which is called Comments For Kids by Bill Genereux. This is the first time to do writing assignment. The assignemnt read: Visit the Student Blogging Challenge website. Click on the Participants menu to find a list of kid bloggers who are participating in the challenge. There are blogger children from many different countries all around the world. Find 3-5 young bloggers, visit their blogs, and offer them your encouragement. For ideas on what to say, see How to compose a quality comment, courtesy of Linda Yollis’ 3rd grade class in California. When you are finished, write a post on your own blog describing your experience. Who knows? You might give much needed encouragement and support at just the right time. You might even make a new friend!

The Process

First, I went to the website which is called Student Blogging Challenge. Then I saw the list of the participants and selected 3 young bloggers: Olivia,P, Kylie,B and Zoe,G. Then I visited thier blog and left some comments. The process is quite simple.

The Story

I did not know about Student Blloging Challenge before I did this assignment, so I’m ganna explain about Student Blloging Challenge. The Student Blogging Challenge runs twice yearly. A new Challenge starts March and September, each year. It is made up of a series of 10 weekly tasks all designed to improve blogging and commenting skills while connecting students with a global audience. The Challenge is open to both class blogs and to individual student bloggers from all over the world and of all ages. Miss Wyatt began blogging in January 2008. She began with her own personal blog and developed a class blog in March. By the end of April, most of her students had their own blogs and the class blog was getting less use. In September that same year, Sue Waters (editor of “The Edublogger”) and Miss W. ran a very successful international student blogging competition. They had classes from 9 countries taking part involving about 500 students. It was so successful, that they ran another beginning March 2009. This was a challenge though, not a competition. This time 15 countries were involved and a total of over 1000 students ranging from grade 2 classes through to students in senior school. When I know the concept of Student Blloging Challenge, it seems interesting because students would be able to express thier opinion through thier blog post and learn how to use computer-based technology. The reason why I chose these 3 young blogger is that they have almost same hobbies such as cooking, singing and playing sports. One of the young bogger who I chose Olivia(8 years old) wrote a blog post about Michelle Obama. Also, she has been writing well about her daily life. When I was 8 years old, I did not know how to write blog. Kylie,B (8 years old) introduced her her art work that she did on computer without help. Zoe (8 years old) also has been wonderfully writing about her daily life. I was surprised that she knows how to use gadgets on her blog. These 3 young blogger try to communicate other bloggers and improve thier skill of bogging and commenting on others blog. I feel that this program is very helpful for children to acquire the skill of computer.

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The Beginning

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My second ds106 assignment was Comments for Kids. Basically, the idea behind it is to encourage kids who are blogging to keep it up. The ds106 site also give you a quality comment guide link, to a site made by a third grade class. (Can I just add here that I have no idea what to do with life when third graders are creating web content?)

To start with, I went to the list of participants. I have to say, my shock level was sky high when I realized that the youngest was only six. In some ways, this entire thing is really kind of awkward, as the children are, like most bloggers, putting images of themselves up. It’s nothing bad, exactly, but having been raised in a very “We don’t put pictures up of ourselves ever” kind of household, it’s very kind of “…” for me.

In any case. I went through and figured out who I wanted to comment on. This, for me, was really difficult — because there are so many people there, and because it’s always really odd to comment on someone’s blog when you don’t know them. (I know, I know, I have really odd ways of thinking about things, I’ve been told.)

So I wandered through. The assignment called for three to five comments — I decided that four was a nice, reasonable number. (I like using the middle number, what can I say?) I’m not going to tell you where I made the comments, but feel free to read these blogs and make comments of your own. Some of the blogs are really kind of cool, with game apps and the like (one had a Magic 8 Ball which I played for several minutes, because it’s been ages, and it was fun). Of course, others are terrifying, because girls really like sparkles, and the backgrounds may blind you.

Have a great day!

~Ekhlami

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Comments For Kids

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Submitted by: Bill Genereux

Visit the Student Blogging Challenge website. Click on the Participants menu to find a list of kid bloggers who are participating in the challenge. There are blogger children from many different countries all around the world. Find 3-5 young bloggers, visit their blogs, and offer them your encouragement. For ideas on what to say, see How to compose a quality comment, courtesy of Linda Yollis’ 3rd grade class in California. When you are finished, write a post on your own blog describing your experience. Who knows? You might give much needed encouragement and support at just the right time. You might even make a new friend!