The 31 Day Comment Challenge was a project designed to reinforce and introduce some good commenting habits. Through a series of activities presented and explained by the challenge hosts ( Sue Waters, Silvia Tolisano, Michele Martin and Kim Cofino), participants not only engaged with other bloggers on a series of conversations, but we cast a critical eye on our blogs.
I thought the challenge was a wonderful experience and a great way for me to move out beyond my own networks.
Last week, I learned that I was one of the “winners” of the prizes being offered by the challenge organizers, who were being supported by Edublogs (my preferred blogging platform) and CoComment, which is a tool that I began using in the Comment Challenge, as per the organizers’ recommendation, and have come to rely upon as a way to keep track of my blogging conversations.
Here is the news announcement from Michelle’s blog, The Bamboo Project Blog:
I’m very pleased to announce the winners of the 31 Day Comment Challenge! They are:
- For the most comments on a wide range of blogs (not just the βtopβ edubloggers)–A tie between Bonnie Kaplan and Claire Thompson.
- For the most high quality comments that thoughtfully reflect on the topic— Carla Arena
- For the comments that provoke and promote the most learning— Kevin of Dogtrax.
- The student award—Taylor
Each prize winner will receive:
Thanks to everyone who participated, and to everyone who voted, and most of all: thanks to the organizers for making us think and reflect and connection. I see a nice dinner with my wife in the cards sometime down the road.
Peace (in comments),
Kevin
congrats Kevin and well deserved. will follow your continued blogging and comments with interest π
Congratulations, Kevin–it was a lot of fun to do the Challenge and to meet great people like you. Thanks for adding so much to the experience!
I’ll add my congratulations to the mix here too, Kevin. I really enjoyed meeting you virtually over the challenge (both at your blog and elsewhere in the blogosphere!) What I want to know is how do you fit your writing and commenting into your day. You write a lot of blog posts in a week (and some are quite long) and you comment on a lot of blogs. Do you have a time during the day that you set aside for this writing? Thanks!
Well
I do get up quite early in the morning (before the kids) and that is my time for writing and thinking, over a quiet cup of coffee. I do try to make time to write during the day because it helps me reflect on what I am doing and I love the sense of community that the blogging world can create.
When do you write?
Kevin
Congratulations from coComment to the winners, well done!
We have enjoyed this challenge very much!
Thanks for answering my question Kevin. I tend to do most of my writing at night once the kids are in bed, or on those rare occasions when I suffer from insomnia I’ll do my posts at 2 in the morning. I’m a pretty slow writer so I find I don’t get a lot of posts out, but I’m going to try and work on writing shorter pieces.