The document discusses how commenting on blogs helps engagement with learning and connecting with others. It encourages leaving comments on colleagues' blogs that engage with the writer through questions or relevant links. It also demonstrates how to add hyperlinks to text using basic HTML tags.

1. Blogging and
Edublogging
2: Blogs Grow with Comments
Seth Dickens www.digitalang.com

2. Blogs Grow With Comments
“Blogs are not just a one way road.”
 Comments on your blog will:
 Enhance and develop communication
 Give you a chance to interact with each other,
your teachers and your PLN in a different way
 Commenting helps you to engage
with your learning.
 Commenting on other blogs helps
you to connect to other people.

3. Blogs Grow With Comments
Today’s Tasks
 Tell us your blog address.
 Use some html

4. Look at this sentence. It has a hyperlink.
This is Seth’s Blog. Go have a look if you want.
If you click on the words “Seth’s Blog” you go to
a new webpage.

5. To do this on a web page we need some
simple html code.
This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/">
Seth's Blog</a> Go have a look if you want.

6. Lets look at this code
This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/">
Seth's Blog</a> Go have a look if you want.

7. 1) The web address
This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/">
Seth's Blog</a> Go have a look if you want.
This is the web address I want

8. 2) The text you want
This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/">
Seth's Blog</a> Go have a look if you want.
This is the web address I want
This is the text I want people to read

9. 3) The HTML “Anchor” tag
This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/">
Seth's Blog</a> Go have a look if you want.
This is the web address I want
This is the text I want people to read
This is the HTML that makes the link appear

10. Lets look at that again
This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/"> Seth's Blog</a>
http://www.digitalang.com/blog
Seth's Blog
<a href=“ "> </a>

11. Lets look at that again
This is <a href="http://www.digitalang.com/blog/"> Seth's Blog</a>
http://www.digitalang.com/blog
Seth's Blog
<a href=“ "> </a>

12. Blogs Grow With Comments
Commenting tasks 2
 Visit 5 of your colleagues’ and leave a
comment on any post that interests you
 Try to leave a comment that engages with
the writer and encourages interaction ask
questions
 Leave at least one comment that contains
a link to something relevant to the post.
 Complete your blogging register.