If I wanted to link to my edublogs page in a comment that I leave for someone else, here is the code:

<a href=“http://nhsglobalwarmingdocumentary.edublogs.org“>edublogs </a>

orange is what comes before/after the URL

green is the link that you will see

blue is the URL

Ideas for the “adopt-a-blog” mentors responding to student blogs

Background: For many entries, students are writing in response to articles or other research materials that they encounter. Each entry should be in two parts–a summary of the material in their own words, and a response to that material. Ideally, the responses will be reflective in nature–asking questions, making connections, finding contradictions from earlier research, and looking at the material with an evaluative eye toward their documentary film segment.

Other entries will be reflections about the process itself. We pose questions to the students about what they have learned and how they feel about what they are doing.

Adopt-A-Blog Mentor response ideas

• ask follow-up questions
• add to the knowledge base with your own information or reference referrals
• comment on the article (most of them linked to the articles on their blogs) or summary of article
• show connections that you see
• comment on the parts you found most interesting
• comment on what you think would make a good addition to the documentary film
• address frustrations and accomplishments they note in their reflections

If you have other ideas, please post them below and I’ll incorporate them into my next post.

Thanks so much for participating–it is wonderful for the kids to have an audience wider than just their teacher.