High Quality Comments
For every comment, you should strive to:
1. Add new information
–Provide a context for the information
–Don’t copy, but paraphrase in your own words
–Go beyond what the person(s) before said
2. Connect Explicity
–to others in the discussion
–Show that you have read them by referring directly to the people and their content
–To class, such as the current unit, Story Hour, past work…
3. Express your opinions, questions, inferences, answers, etc.
–elaborate with details or examples