sophomore class project
I started to notice that the kids are getting comments from people I don’t know. So I checked my Google Analytics and found that we are getting hits from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. I have to believe that these are students whose teachers also signed up for the 31-day challenge. I’ll get my students’ responses to being international phenoms when we have class today.
I also commented on some blogs out there is cyber-space yesterday and am trying to use CoComment–not sure I completely understand how it works, but I do know that the tags are working :-). Baby steps.
Hi Melissa - WOW that is really cool if that is the case. Please let me know and tell me about your students responses to how this made them feel to know that they have a global audience.
The students can’t believe that “random” people are reading their blogs. We had standardized testing the past two days and we’re trying to get our documentary film finished in the next two weeks, so we’ve had little time to chat.
Right now we’ve received lots of hits from Canada and Australia, but not many are commenting. Perhaps teachers are checking to see if what we’re writing about would be a good match for what they are doing.
I think just knowing other people are reading/clicking around is incentive to write something meaningful. I’ll try to collect some hard quotes from the kiddos.