Feedback

What kind of feedback or comments would you like from classmates on your Blog?  (Think both of your intellectual growth and your affective experience in the class.)

As a tactile learner, I find that discussion IN class sticks with me a lot more than back and forth comments on blogs. On the other hand, reading each other’s blogs is a great way to let classroom discussion move forward faster and become more in depth that it may have otherwise been. From my own best-learning approach, then, I would want to know my classmates had read my blogs (and read theirs in return) in order to better the in-class learning experience. All this to say that I think we SHOULD read each other’s blogs (and the idea of reading groups lets us read a handful of blogs more closely than if we were rushing to skim through 18 blogs each week) but comment in a limited fashion so that the majority of conversation takes place in person each week.

As for what kind of comments, I think everyone should write glowing praise of how awesome and insightful my postings are…but that probably wouldn’t be helpful. So instead, I propose that we comment with questions that push each other deeper in our thinking and post responses to questions that come up in each other’s posts (because, as I said in my blog rubric, I think good posts pose questions of ourselves and the class). A good number, perhaps, would be to read 6 classmates’ blogs each week and comment briefly on at least one post from each blogger.