Documentary Film 2008
sophomore class project
May
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How Do You Show Recent Comments that You’ve Made on Others’ Blogs?
Filed Under (Technical Questions) by Melissa Lynn Pomerantz on 12-05-2008 and tagged comment08
To encourage students to converse via their blogs and to allow easy grading for me, I would like to have sidebar similar to “recent comments” and “recent posts” that tracks the comments the students make on others’ blogs. I think this is possible, but I just don’t know how to do it.
If anyone has technical advice, I would appreciate it.
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May 12th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Well you could get them all to use cocomment as there is no age limit to have an account. Then get them all to use a common tag like we are doing in the comment challenge. Then take the RSS feed from the common tag and use on your blog. Wonder if cocomment could create a site widget like User comments widget but for tags? Looks like I need to ask
May 13th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Thanks for the idea. I’m not sure whom I should contact at cocomment, but I will definitely investigate.
funny aside–when I first saw “cocomment” referenced in so many blogging blogs, I kept reading coco–like a coconut
May 13th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Hi Melissa – its okay I contacted cocomment directly after I left the comment and they are considering the issue. They suggest you are probably better using a private group with your students so that only comments from your students appear in the comment stream.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Thanks, Sue. If there was such a widget, wouldn’t it only have “my comments” posted on my blog? Maybe this will be my great invention. (After I grade the 75 essays that are sitting on my desk).