Commenting is of utmost importance to the blogging community in general because it fuels the main concept of blogging at its core: self-expression. Through our comments we offer our perspectives on the issues at hand in the blogs that we choose to read. The interaction between writers through commenting is also valuable in that they may help and learn from one another. Two of the points on commenting that I found to be of particular interest were found in the post by Cool Cat Teacher. They were "Interact with comments left" and "Be controversial". The advice to interact with your commenting readers via comments of your own reminds me of the usage of my personal facebook page; whenever I log on and see that a friend of mine has written on my "wall", I always respond in a timely fashion. I feel that this is only polite, and know that I would not want my own posts to go unanswered after I took time out of my day to write them. The tips on this page also advised bloggers to be controversial; I had not thought of this previously but it makes sense that readers will be more likley to read and respond with interest to a blog written by a person looking to make a point, especially one that is outside "the norm".
I have chosen five of my fellow classmates whose blogs I would like to follow: Courtney Berg, Kortney Knight, Skylar Riley, Leigh Ann Nicholson, and Anna Hall. I chose these ladies' blogs because after sampling them, I've found them to be very well-written and insightful. I also know each of them personally, which I believe will help me to get a good sense of where they are "coming from" in their posts, and therefore lead to a greater understanding of the points they make. In my comments on these posts, I focused mainly on "Thing 3", in which we discussed how we would use education-based web logs as teachers. Kortney Knight's idea to use blogging as a time-filler for advanced students who finish their work early in class stood out to me the most because while I never thought of it myself, I can readily envision myself implementing such an exercise.
I haven't yet chosen two blogs outside of our classes, but plan to do so very soon!
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