Thing #4

Active blogging helps create a sense of community and interaction because people share information, thoughts, and beliefs in their posts. The post writers provide their opinion and they wants to hear the opinions of others.  Commenting allows the writer to feel supported, and it lets them know that they are valuable to community.  Writing a post allows a writer to invite other people to make “conversation”. I do not think that it is necessary to respond to every blog comment (or there is often no time) or follow all your readers’ blogs to create community. You just have to use the feedback you’re given.

Comments are the best form to interact with my readers about specific topics or ideas. I found important the point from CoolCats Blog that I should comment because I have something meaningful to add to the conversation and I care about the topic. Sharing your opinion in a comment shows that you spent time reading somebody’s blog and writing response. The other point I found important is not to be afraid of commenting and share some information about you. I found it important because as a new blogger I often hesitate to live a comment thinking that my opinion not that important. However, the author pointed that any perspective should be shared.

I decided to make a comment to Alison Curtis Thing #1 post because I found a lot of common between us regarding of what is the hardest and easiest about lifelong learning. Rebecca Brooks always was interesting person to talk with when we had the same class last semester and her posts are very enjoyable to read. She also has the same problems dealing with deployment disasters as me. Karalina Roelle is my friend and I would never miss the chance to talk to her even through blogging. I like the way she presented herself in her blog; it reflects her personality. Markesha McCombs are my classmate; she helped me a lot in class. I like to follow her blog because her posts are meaningful and exciting to read. I commented on her ideas of how to use blog in a classroom. I also found Elizabeth Howell’s blog interesting and engaging; I commented on how I actually learned from her blog.

A couple of blogs that I like to follow (and I even left a comment recently) are the blog section on http://www.genkienglish.net because there are so many practical ideas of how to teach English to kids in other countries. I think that what I would like to do in future, so his program is what I would like to use in future. The other blog I like to follow is http://russiapastandpresent.blogspot.com  because it full of historical and cultural information about the situation in Russia where I am from.

I decided to comment on blogs that I follow because I wanted blogger to know that people in the blogging world care about their opinions and thoughts. I wanted to let them know that I found something really helpful.