Thing # 4

     Everyone likes to know that someone agrees with what they have to say.  This is true for children and adults.  When a person takes the time to write out what they believe and why they believe it, then commenting allows the person to feel as if they are being heard.  That does not mean that you have to agree with them completely, but at least they are not simply blogging to themselves.  "Meaningful comment" as the posting stated was what I took away from the reading.  You can agree, give support, and disagree with someone in a proper way.  Either way, commenting is the "interaction" part that makes blogging worth the effort and  also explains the community part of blogging.
     I chose two blogs covering Thing # 3 to comment on from Desirae Shepard and Clara Brainard.  Each of these blogs had important points concerning different ways to use a blog in teaching.  While my own thought's were very similar to these two blogs, I was able to take away some good ideas from each that I had not realized on my own.  As I read there post's, I was also able to put some new ideas together for myself and possibly them too, such as using a blog to track to the success of a former student.  Even use a blog as a tool for self evaluation when I do become a teacher.
     I chose two blogs covering Thing # 2 to comment on from D. Houston Theil and Jared Morris.  Both of these blogs seem to mirror my experience with blogging.  They wrote about how they were new to blogging and expressed how they felt it would be difficult at first.  I agreed with them that it was easier than I had expected and how setting up our blogs went with no error.  One had a concern about his avatar in particular, and I was able to assure him that all was showing up well on my end.  We even exchanged a little sports talk which was cool.
     I chose one blog covering Thing # 1 to comment on from Amber Law.  I found that her ideas concerning Lifelong Learning Habits and mine were similar.  We both agreed that mentoring/teaching was the easiest habit for us to keep because of the end result.  Getting something in return and learning from it ourselves.  We did have "different" hardest habit's, but I fully understood her position and why she chose it.  For the two outside blogs from the bloggosphere, I found some trouble in navigating my way around and wasn't sure if the two blogs had to be educational related or not.  Nevertheless, I used one blog from the Infisherman Blogs concerning my hobbie of fishing and was successful in blogging one of my favorite authors(someone I have always wanted to speak to).  Likewise, I also used Nascarmadness Blogs to comment on a topic going on in the field of motorsports with my favorite driver.
     Now that I have blogged several times I am feeling more confident about my technology skills.  I wouldn't have known where to begin just two days ago.  The class is already paying off big!