Commenting helps create a sense of community by sharing common interests and experiences. The interaction between comments allows a dialogue to occur, allowing all parties to share and learn new things.
Blog comments must be relevent, intelligent, and nice. It is also important not to let some online meanie get under your skin and destroy your confidence inthe process.
The seven blogs I chose to read/comment were:
1. coolcatteacherblog – I chose this blog because it stressed the importance of not letting mean, vicious comments destroy my confidence and deter me from expressing my thoughts and opinions.
2. ten commandments of blog commenting by brown thoughts blog– good advice on the etiquette of blogging relating to basic common courtesy ; be relevant, nice, or if you can't, go to a different blog
3. Commenting using an alias vs. your real name - from Blogging Basics 101 was about how choosing a blog name is really a personal choice. It seems many start out as anonymous, and as they become more comfortable with blogging, they begin using their real name or a combination of real/alias.
4. Technocricket – this blogger is ahead of me in the course, and seems to be more techno savvy than I, but after reading his/her comments, I am looking forward to learning flickr, and del.icou.us sounds very useful to access bookmarks between school and home, which had me using e=mail to accomplish the task.
5. Ictbailey’s blog inspired me to explore flickr with her photo alphabet. Since I teach art, I’m hoping to use this site in a variety of ways with students, as long as the school doesn’t block us. I'm up to 4 digital cameras in my art class, and we use them more and more every year.
6. lovingsummer’s blog was chosen because I also LOVE summer. I share the author’s misgivings on the amount of time this course will take, simply because it is so much fun to learn and explore new things, but in order to meet the deadline, I feel it is necessary to somewhat skim over things I would have liked to explore at greater length.
7. Michael says - the blog discussed youtube, of which I am already familiar, thanks to my own children. I want to learn how to download movies to the site and use the site in class. I have found several videos on claymation and sculpting that I wanted to show in class last year, but the school blocked them.
8. Teddy bear blog sounds really excited about learning new things, which I can relate to. Sounds like this will be a rewarding experience for everyone.
I chose these blogs because something in the blog names spoke to me, and I was able to relate to all of them on some level. After reading the comments, I am really pshyched about learning everything I can about online tools.
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2 comments:
Great post! this is exactly what we are looking for. Keep up the good work. Only 19 more things to go!!
Teachart, I too share your misgivings about the amount of time to spend on each "Thing" as we learn. I love to spend hours, digesting every nuance about a new computer "toy" and feel like I'm rushed to get through the course. But as soon as the deadline passes, I'll go back and do a more detailed exploration of many of the "things" we will have learned.
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