Thing #7 Commenting Champion...not!

Prior to reading the valuable information from the Brown Baron and the Cool Cat Teacher I felt a little intimidated about commenting on other blogger's blogs other than on my own student's blogs. I didn't feel that I had valuable information to add to pieces that inspired me. However, I now realize that simply letting the author know how their particular piece impacted my own thoughts and ideas is welcomed. I didn't think that the sincere blogger actually read comments left for them, but I realize that they, like myself, use comments to motivate them to continue what they do, among other things. Another cool spin off to commenting is that I was able to see other peoples thoughts and opinion about the entry that closely related to my own feelings. I enjoyed the idea shared by Vicki Davis in regards to leaving a link to my own blog within a comment, not to generate traffic but to develop the commonality between myself and the inspiration. So, commenting is cool, I'm not great at it yet, mainly because of how much time it consumes, but I'll get there.