Commenting helps to create a sense of community and interaction because it unites people from all over the U.S. and even the world to discuss matters that interest them the most. They are able to interact through comments. The importance of commenting is crucial to blogging. If you want your blog to be resourceful and successful, then you want people to read and comment on it. It's important to care about the topics that you discuss, so that they will be interested in wanting to know more about you and what's really behind that blog. Commenting someones blog can cause them to want to continue to blog! Once the conversation is started, it can blossom into an amazing story of information. It can be a great way to bonce ideas off one another and share information with someone that you have a lot in common with.
I chose to follow Theresa Green, Jorge Jimenez-Cano, Korina Biemesderfer, Melissa Clemens, and Amber Kerns. I chose to follow (from outside the group) Jill Haney and Jerry Webster's blogs on SPED.
Theresa Green and I share so many similar thoughts and attitudes about blogs (the good/bad) however, we both agree that they can be great tools for the classroom.
Jorge-Jimenez-Cano's blogs really were a reflection about his profession and it showed that he is really dedicated to learning the different aspects of technologies in education.
Korina Biemesderfer's blog is creative, just like her, and I have the same opinions with her, as with Theresa, on how blogs can be essential to the classroom. I also found blogs to be a great way to share photos, videos, and other useful things other than just words!
Melissa Clemens blog is very colorful and bright. She listed the reasons why it's important to blog and comment, and she has a great way of wording her thoughts.
Amber Kerns blog is similar to how I view my own opinions of myself. It's much easier when we come across a problem to see it as another situation that we must deal with, but it is only a life-long learning experience that we must face.
Jerry Webster's blog discussed in one of his previous entries about a man named O. Ivar Lovaas, who developed a therapy for autism. He passed away recently at the age of 83 in California. He was a great individual who changed the way that people viewed autism. He published an article that basically stated that it can be treated and he also reported that after training children had been able to catch up with their peers.
http://specialed.about.com/b/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/health/23lovaas.html?_r=2
Jill Haney's blog is quite interesting as she talks about her two chilren, one is autistic and one is nonverbal. She mentions that while she is still getting through the ups and downs of Excel, her daughter has already mastered her Wii and DSi games. Her son, before the time he was one, was able to operate electronics the way a three year old should be. http://blog.pcieducation.com/
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