CommentPress in action on Edublogs
Have been browsing around looking for a good example of an blogger using CommentPress in action on Edublogs and lo and behold, check this out.
The Biology Space is actually not using the main CP skin but rather their ‘blog’ version (which we also provide :) and I really like the way that it allows for paragraph-based commenting outside in this format - see this post for a great example.
Rock on!
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
[...] I saw that James Farmer highlighted a high school biology class using CommentPress in a class wide blog hosted at Edublogs.org. What a great example, too! [...]
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:59 pm
that’s my AP Biology class’ blog you’re looking at. :) Glad you enjoyed! I wanted my students to be able to comment on stories I’ve posted. I also wanted them to be able to reply to each other’s comments as sort of an online dialogue in an academic forum. It has been a really good teaching and learning tool for my kids.
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Too cool, I think it’s ace :)
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:12 pm
[...] to see if any of you had posted comments to the recent stories I’ve posted, and I noticed a comment from someone I’d never seen post in our forum before. After a bit of reading and investigating, it turns out that our mystery commenter is the founder [...]
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Thanks for providing this space for educators to host virtual instructional spaces. It’s really valuable and helps us to reach more kids this way.