Commenting on a blog helps create a sense of community and interaction because blogging can connect you to people and topics that are important to you. In the World Wide Web universe there is a lot of information out there, an unfathomable amount, but that information is often full of the cold hard facts, devoid of feeling and emotion. Blogging allows you to make an emotional connection with people. You connect with people that are passionate (passionate enough to express their thoughts and feelings) about the same things you are. Vicki A. Davis on her “Cool Cat Teacher” blog makes a similar comment when she notes, “you become a part of the life of the blogger you read.”
Several bloggers talk about the positive feeling they receive from blogging. Vicki A. Davis on her “Cool Cat Teacher” comments that “encourage her,” and quotes a third grader that wrote “and when somebody sends me a comment I just get happy and send a comment back to him or her.” Doug Johnson at the ‘Blue Skunk Blog” writes that every blogger likes to know that they are being read otherwise “they'd be writing in a spiral notebook.” To write something and then have someone take the time to read and make a positive comment makes you want to write more. What a great way to motivate children to write (positive feedback) and engage them in reading (by reading others blogs).
Blogging is a great interactive tool that promotes higher order thinking. We talk all the time about in education about open-ended questioning (asking questions without clear cut right and wrong answers). Darren Rowse at ProBlogger talks about being opened ended when blogging as a way to get people to respond, the same thing we as teachers do to promote higher order thinking.
Blogs I have selected to follow all have something to do with areas of educational interest I have in reading, brain based learning and in technology in the classroom.
Blogs I have selected to follow all have something to do with areas of educational interest I have in reading, brain based learning and in technology in the classroom.
(2) 2 cents Worth (by David Warlick (a leading classroom technology educator)
(5) Brain Based Learning - A Brain Based Teaching Approach By Eric Jensen
(6) Reading Today (International Reading Association or IRA)
Some blogs by fellow classmates in ED 5611 that I have found insightful, interesting, helpful, and thought provoking are by Carla Sensing, Sara Denson, and by Dean Hook.
Some blogs by fellow classmates in ED 5611 that I have found insightful, interesting, helpful, and thought provoking are by Carla Sensing, Sara Denson, and by Dean Hook.
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