Having used the blog for one entire quarter now we need to focus on making better comments. I blame myself for not providing good examples of comments to begin with so you sort of did what I did and used your comments to judge (nice job! looks great!) rather than enhance the post or take it further than the original author did.

So, let’s change that. As you make comments from here on out (which will be included in your 2nd quarter journal) use your comments to enhance the post. For example, your comments should include things like the following:

• I understood what you said about…..but am still not clear on….
• I thought about….differently; my thought was….
• I still have a question….
• I was wondering…

You could also include links and graphs in your comments that would further the ideas put forth in the post.

So, you get the idea? Don’t limit yourself to my suggestions but show us by your comments that you processed the post you are commenting on; that you thought about it enough to comment intelligently.