As the manifesto brainstorms continue to come in, a different assignment for Thursday’s class. Rather than writing a new post, please comment on 3 posts from either this most recent assignment or the prior one (the two since we last met).
Comments should be thoughtful, substantial (aim for 100 words), and should continue the thought process that the initial poster began. If your comments are shorter, consider what else you could add to them to get either the author of the initial post further along in his or her thoughts, or what might inspire someone else to comment in response to your comment and the initial post.
A few words about commenting:
- If no one has commented yet, you can by clicking Leave a Reply at the bottom of the post.
- If someone has already commented, you can by clicking 1 Reply or 2 Replies etc (it will keep track of how many replies).
- You are welcome to comment on a post that has already been commented on, so long as you add something new to the conversation.
- You are welcome to respond to someone’s comment by clicking on Reply at the bottom of their comment. You’ll notice that your reply is indented further than if you just replied to the post.
- Comments might ask questions, refer to specific passages, link ideas from one post to another, relate someone’s point about one text or issue to another text or issue, offer a differing (but respectful) view, offer a related view that takes the ideas in a new depth or direction, etc.
- “I agree” or “I disagree” or “I understand” or “Good point” or similar short, unsupported replies alone will not get credit as comments.
- You can ALWAYS write something short in addition to the required number of comments. Don’t feel like you can never write a short reply just because these 3 comments need to be substantial.
- You can use the Like function to let people know which posts you’re most interested in, but that doesn’t count as a comment.
I can’t wait to see how our commenting experiment goes–if it goes well, we might move to a post and comments in the week rather than two posts.
If you have any questions, please ask them as replies to this post. See you in class on Thursday and online before then!
