Thing # 4

Everyone desires to be acknowledged and heard by their peers.  Commenting allows us to acknowledge and recognize people who we care about or who we feel their subject matter hits home.  It also allows us to engage in a "discussion board" to brain storm or share our stories and experiences.  However, there always needs to be a commenter etiquette.  Cool Cat Teacher makes a wonderful point when she illustrates that every comment should be meaningful and not a one word answer.  It makes it seem as though you don't care or have an opinion on the topic if you answer with a simple "Right!"  Tying in with the etiquette aspect of commenting, remember that Words are powerful and while they can encourage and provide positivity to people, they can also shatter them easily.  We are all guilty of posting negative comments at some point, and we all can work on that together through our blogs.  I have chosen to randomly follow Mrs. Miller, Future Teacher (Sabrina Miller), Goda's 23 Things (Christopher Goda), Rhodes 23 Things (Olivia Rhodes), Carroll's Cavern (Derek Carroll) and Melanie Perry's 23 Things (Melanie Perry).  All these students are from my current class and I have chosen to follow their blogs because we interact twice a week in class and I would like to get to know them better to see their ideas on teaching and other things.  I now come back to why I have chosen my fellow students blogs after reading them.  Their positivity, honesty and knowledge about their topics are outstanding.  I'm glad to be able to connect with everybody and not feel stupid about things I don't understand because I know my fellow students will help me.  I vow that all my comments will be positive and for those blogs that I have already commented on I hope you will see that.  For my additional blogs, I have decided to follow the History Blog and the Historical Blogs: Fiction and Fact.  I have chosen these two blogs because I love history and I will be teaching it.  I need to know as much as I can and also brainstorm with fellow history lovers as I continue to embark on yet more history classes with lots of research papers.  Here is the link for the History Blog http://www.thehistoryblog.com/  and the link for the Historical Blogs: Fiction and Fact http://historicalnovelblogs.blogspot.com/