Thing 4 Commenting

       William Graves’s  is the first blog I commented on because I found his ideas about Animoto very unique. He explained that using Animoto for students’ personal expression was a way to incorporate it into the classroom.

       Ryan Whipkey was my next blogger to comment on. He had an awesome and inspiring post about a website called Smores.com that gives you templates and features in order to make AMAZING, professional looking fliers. As soon as I am done with this post, I am going to check this out. It could be used throughout my teaching career to make fliers and newsletters for parents, professional meetings, and in my personal life as well.

       Emily Shei cleared up some questions that I have always had about Google Translate. I was hesitant to turn to it as a form of communication between myself, ELL and ESL students, and their parents because I was concerned about it’s accuracy. As a Spanish student, she uses it and never has any problems with it; now I can use it confidently!

       James Harris  is a friend of mine and I felt he needed a little encouragement when he posted about his weakness being in the area of technology. I just dropped into his blog to tell him what a great job he was doing and noticed that we have the same strength. Of course, we had to discuss that point also. Everyone needs some encouragement every once in a while!

       Hope Erwing  showed interest in GoodReads, a site that I am already a member of and enjoy very much; therefore, I commented on her post so that she knows some of the great featuers of the site and knows it is worth her time. She also knows who to ask if she has any questions about the site. I have had several people do the same for me and it is extremely helpful.

       Some outside blogs I subscribe to are Single DadLaughing and The Mouthy Housewives. In SDL, Dan is a single father raising his son. He posts a variety of topics from humorous to controversial. I enjoy reading everything that he discusses and giving feedback on whether I agree or disagree. MHW is a blog where a group of women answer questions that readers have submitted. It is hilarious, and it also gives some great advice. I usually comment on these posts to encourage others who have asked the questions, or just to let them know how much I laugh when I read their blog.