A Blog in the Woods? on 2 cents worth

How many blogs have you had a response too? Maybe 1 if your Lucky right. I know I haven't had a response to one.

Dave, the person who wrote about this on 2 cents worth, said that this is a problem for many teachers and their students. Dave said that, "he has been encouraging teachers that he works with to start bogs for themselves and their students. Many have, but the concern they share is that no one comments…besides themselves. Teachers said that if the only people who are going to read what they write are the people across the hall who took the same blogging workshop and set up a similar Blogger page, then what is the point?" I guess as other student might be able to respond to his pear across the hall, but that's not the entire point.

Hear are some ideas that Dave came up with to help students and teachers to get a response on their blogs:

1. When I started blogging, and attended a number of BloggerCons, this was a common question, and the consistent answer was, “Just keep blogging and readers will come.” For me, it worked.
   
2. Engage in the conversation. Read other bloggers who write in the same topics, to the same community, and engage. Comment on their blog, and be sure that you enter the URL of your blog when you sign in. When you can, blog your comment. Often, the original blog will capture the link to your blog, and link back to it. To be read, you have to become part of the conversation.
   
3. I would encourage your teachers to read each other’s blogs. Start a conversation through your blogs within the school. Get teachers talking about what they are teaching, how they are teaching it, and why, and to present it in a way that would be valuable to other teachers in the school. Other teachers in your school may be just the readers and commenters you need.
   
4. Finally, write short blogs. I can’t tell you how many good blog articles I’ve missed, simply because, as I pull it up, I decide instantly, I do not have the time to read this right now.

Helpfully if you do some of these ideas someone might respond to some of your blogs.