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=**Delaying Approval of Student Comments**= =**on a Teacher Post**=

I know we've talked about this, but I wanted to make sure I repeated this... You will need to moderate student comments for many blog activities and delay posting of any student comments until ALL students have shared their initial thoughts. This is to prevent "parroting" of other's ideas, or the "yeah, what he said" student responses.

So if you asked your students in the blog to tell what Lelaine was thinking in a class read-aloud or reading group book, you'd want to WAIT TO APPROVE COMMENTS on your initial post until ALL of your students had commented on that post. That way they can have their own original, initial thinking. After their first responses, it is fine to have students respond to each other's thinking-- this is part of the power of blogging-- and it does support better, deeper student learning.