Thing 7 Flickr

:Love Should Be Enough

I chose this picture because it touched base with me.
I read the words and sat back and thought about it.
For a lot of people LOVE is not enough. So many people are shallow and only see looks.
You cannot love someone if you do not see past how they look. This phrase just spoke to me.

Why Commenting is important (Thing 4)

• Commenting is a great way to create a sense of community. Commenting also allows you to put your thoughts and ideas about someone else's posts out there for them to think about. commenting can be giving someone advice, agreeing with someone, or just giving someone a pat on the back. 
• I loved the blog post How to comment like a king (or queen). This really helped to understand why commenting is so important and how to comment to encourage conversation. I also liked the 10 Techniques to get more comments on you blog post because it showed me how to write a blog that will generate thought and get my followers to want to comment back.  
• I am currently following Casey Estes, Megan Abbott, Conrad C'deBaca, and Dillon and Korina Biemesderfe. These blogs were interesting and found I enjoyed hearing what they have to say. 
• I commented on blogs that were stimulating and left me wondering, or I commented to say I agree, or I just gave advice in general.

Thing 3

Using a blog in my teacher education program is a great idea and there are many ways to do so.

• Write something i learned from another teacher that may be helpful to other future teachers.
• I can describe my training experiences.
• Provide teaching tips the I learn or come up with on my own for others to see. 
• I can just express general feelings or concerns about topics and recent events related to my program.
• It is a way to interact with my fellow students in my program. 
• It is a good way to interact with students and their parents on a daily basis.  
• I could post questions for parents to respond to. This makes the parent feel involved even if he or she cannot participate in in-school activities.  

The good thing about a blog is parents that want to get an opinion out about something in class and wants other parents to hear it too, can post a comment to a blog on that topic and others can join the discussion.

I am sure there are many more ideas for using a blog now and in my future classroom. Any ideas are welcome. Any comments and questions are welcome.

Thing 2

• I had fun creating my blog and avatar. For those who know me well will feel that my title suits me because I tend to babble about nonsense. I have never had a blog before but I am looking forward to having this blog and using it. It was really easy to create my blog. The instructions on Mrs. Wall's website are very helpful.
• Creating my avatar was fun. My avatar reflects what I see in myself. I think my avatar looks like a sophisticated and classy teacher :p. I hope one day this is what I really look like. 
• Blogs are a good way to get an opinion out there for others to read and for you to get feedback on it.

Thing 1

After doing the 7 & 1/2 Habits Tutorial I feel that the hardest habit for me would be habit 1. I'm not quite sure how well I can begin with the end in mind. I like doing things one at a time in order. When I start thinknig of the end I get confused. That is something I will have to work on. The easiest would be viewing problems as challenges. I already do that. There is no point to freak about a problem. See it as a challenge, figure out how to overcome it, and then react.
I want to learn anything and everything possible about Web 2.0. As technology becomes more and more important to the education world, I have to work harder to understand technology.