Greetings, B4 Students!!!

Welcome to your Blog Page, fourth block students.

Students, please read the following expectations for our future posts.

The purpose of commenting is to connect. We comment a lot: on YouTube videos, on blogs, and face to face–pretty much, we comment all the time. We comment to learn, sometimes from people on the other side of the world. We comment to express our opinions about what has been written. We comment to connect, and to connect we tell stories, use humor, and share our thinking. Remember, you are trying to engage the blogger in a conversation! A good comment can be the beginning of a good blogging relationship. Here is our advice on quality commenting:

Treat the “BLOGGER spaces” as “classroom spaces” — use appropriate language and be sure that anything you write you are proud of and are prepared to take responsibility for !! Your blog exists as a public space on the Internet. When you put something on the Internet, odds are really good that it will ALWAYS stay on the Internet. If you are not careful about what you write, what you write now could come back to haunt you in the future.

Think about your digital privacy:

• Leave off your home email, your street address, phone number, or school name.
• Don’t share specifics of your daily routines that involve time and location (ie where & when your soccer practice is)

Think about the tone of your comment:

• Be polite, friendly, and encouraging.
• Have some humor, but be careful with sarcasm.
• If you disagree, don’t be rude about it; give constructive (helpful) feedback.

Think about the content of your comment:

• Keep your comment on topic and make sense. Say something about the original post.
• Don’t say random stuff or get really silly.
• Be more formal than you would in real life, but not stuffy.
• Avoid texting shortcuts like u for you and l8r for later, and only use one emoticon if you need to.
• Sometimes add a question at the end to keep the conversation going.

Think about conventions of your comment:

• Try to fix your spelling mistakes: use Word or Note Taker for drafting your comments.
• Use capitals in the right places: people’s names, places, the beginning of a sentence, and on “I” –no evil i’s. All capitals is like yelling.
• Punctuate properly: period at the end of a sentence, space after a period, comma, or end bracket. One “!” will do: you don’t need a string of exclamation marks.
• Remember, you are putting your best self forward, so polish your comments Again, your blog is a public space on the Internet and anyone, anywhere, could be reading it. So….don’t share anything that you don’t want the world to know.

WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED READING ALL OF THE EXPECTATIONS FOR "OUR BLOGGING," PLEASE REPLY TO THIS POST BY TYPING YOUR NAME. THIS WILL DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU UNDERSTOOD THE EXPECTATIONS AND WILL ADHERE TO THEM.

Mrs. M

http://mrjorgensen.edublogs.org/about/blog-guidelines/