Thursday, October 7, 2010
Thing # 4
I decided to read Coolcat Teacher Blogger's "How to comment like a king (or queen!)" and the Problogger's "10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog" posts. After reading these blog posts I can see that commenting on other people's posts is very important in the blogging community. Commenting creates a sense of community and allows bloggers to feel that people are actually listening to them and they are not just randomly posting their thoughts online. I think it is essential especially for teachers to comment on each other's blogs since teaching is a collaborative process. For instance, I know that grade levels have to have meetings about curriculum and how they will successfully teach the material. Teachers could use blogging to put out ideas they have on teaching particular lessons. I found what the Coolcat blogger said about the "Darth Commenter" very true and at the same time quite funny. I think that anytime we write and put our thoughts out there we fear the judgement of others. It is a shame that there are people out there who would resort to curse words and hurtful language just because they either do not agree on a topic or because they have fun putting others down. Problogger's idea about being humble and admitting failures and weaknesses also resonated with me. I think that it is an extremely courageous act when people can admit their mistakes and I think in any situation, not only blogging, it makes you more accessible to others and they feel they can open up to you. For the rest of the semester, I have decided to follow the blogs of Kristyn King, Anna Hall, Skylar Riley, Katharine Green, and Lindsey Cotton. I chose these five people because they are in my class and I thought their blogs would be interesting to read. For the two blogs from the blogosphere at large I have decided to comment on The Drama Teacher and Drama Teacher's Diary. One of the blogs is by a current drama teacher and the other is written by a retired drama teacher. I chose to follow these because I think that I one day want to be a theatre teacher. I am a strong believer in arts education and I think that more often than not the arts are forgotten about in the public school community.
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Commenting is a huge part of blogging and it does make the blogger feel as if someone is listening. For what you said about the fact that some poeple are scared to comment because of what people think, especially with teachers, they could probably comment annonamously. That way if people don't think that it was a good idea, the person that commented wouldn't be askamed.
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