Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Thing 4


Commenting on blogs of others help create a sense of community and interaction because that is exactly whats going on. The blog world is a community where people share their thoughts and other information that are useful to its readers. When a person comments on a blogger's page, the interaction made develops a connect between the two. Whether the comment is positive or negative, it provides feedback to the blogger about their post. Interaction is good. Encouraging others to post comments of their thoughts and concerns also lets the readers know that their opinions are important and valued.

Showing the author of a blog that you are hearing them and what they have to say would be the most important factor about commenting. If you did not comment on the post, more than likely you were not listening to what the blogger had to says anyhow. Setting the stage of allowing the readers to leave comments and inviting them to your blog to make such post freely is another important factor. Its important that the readers feel that their responses are important so they will leave comments. Asking questions and leaving open ended questions for the readers to respond to are helpful ways to interact with the reader. Make sure your readers know that you want them to leave comments.


I read one of Vicki Davis also known as the cool cat teacher's post about 10 ways to being a terrible teacher. The title is what grabbed my attention, but as I read her post I began to laugh because I believe everyone have had at least one terrible teacher that meets all of the 10 things listed. The information she shared was very useful because going into the teaching field, I do not want the reputation of a terrible teacher or a TT as she called it. Her is the link to this blog. I think its very inspirational on what not to be. http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2011/10/10-ways-to-be-terrible-teacher.html



Steve Smith had two pretty good pictures on his thing 7 post of the sunrise and sunset. Those pictures were the first things I saw when I got on his page and they caught my attention. He said he had taken them himself when he was camping on Cordell Hull Lake in Carthage, Tennessee. http://morwessar.blogspot.com/


Reading a post that Emily Howell made about ways she would use her blog in her classroom and why made me nod my head agreeing. She brought up a good point about how military families are often set away from the rest of their families or spouses, parents, or siblings maybe deployed and using a blog is a good way for those away to stay engaged in what the student is doing in their classroom. This is a very good point being a military spouse of  a solider who is deployed currently. http://elihowell.blogspot.com/


Jessica Baggett brought up a good point to post lesson plans on her blog so that when students are absent, they can go to the blog and view everything that they had missed for that day. This would be very useful. Even in the college setting. http://jbb23things.blogspot.com/


Rumming around Google. It is the title of Shaka's post. She blogged about 2 tools on the Google website that are very useful. The Google translator and Google alerts. She made very good points to why these tools are useful, but in all honesty, I went to her page out of curiosity because I say that she was already on thing 12 and its taking me forever to complete mines and manage to do my work in my other 5 classes.  http://technology-twsfinalfrontier.blogspot.com/


Another great Google tool that was blogged about in a blog of Christine Luke was the Calendar. The Google calendar allows you to share your calendar with whom ever you wish, making it great to keep parents and guardians informed about what is taking place in your classroom. http://cluketacklingtechnology.blogspot.com/


23 things in bling caught my eye when I clicked on Michelle Clark's page. She found a website that makes logos. It was different and unsuspecting. She did mention however that the website did not give as clear instructions as she would have liked. The logo was an eye catcher though if you are up for the challenge. http://clarkmv.blogspot.com/

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