Thing # 4

I'd say that I'm certainly not an introvert, and somehow blogging makes me feel like I'm becoming one. I suppose it's the lack of human presence, essence, their facial expressions...a human, a person! Yet, on the other hand, I think blogging can be used in a productive manner depending on the topic matter and a way to read/hear an array of people's thoughts. I have only actually commented on a few teacher's blogs, asking them for advice, but never really a regular blogger. There's billions, one of the blogs we read in class said that there were over 50,000 blogs made every second, or was it hour? Regardless, blogging is HUGE and I need to get in the habit of joining this online community because it is a type of interaction...one that I'm not completely familiar or comfortable with yet, but I think this class alone is helping my get pushed out of my non-blogging nest.

Obviously it's important to have manners, regardless if you're on the net or not. The two most important points were basically the same "be polite". It's just common sense, like one of the blogs said, you wouldn't just go into a stranger's house and act like an idiot, you'd probably (and hopefully) have the common courtesy to act civil. It is the same with blogging, don't go trampling all over some one's blog without reading and understanding their point of view and be polite, even if you may disagree.

So far, I have visited Michael Stein's blog and he seems really interested in incorporating blogs and technology overall into his teaching and learning. His blogs are easy to read and I found myself shaking my head 'yes' while I was reading, I'll edit this post as I read more blogs.

I've now blogged to Danielle for her chocolate toilet bowl! I could have looked at flickr all day, there are so many photos! I enjoyed it though! I don't know if Stacy intentionally mashed her and husband together, to me it was like "we're married, all mashed up", am I totally off? Regardless, I thought that it was a clever idea, seeing as how I used only myself in my mash up and didn't include my spouse. How selfish! :) And Elizabeth's beaded picture made me reminiscent of my needle thingy that I had a long time age, I used to put my face in it and thought it looked so cool. I enjoyed looking at everyone's mashups, Dr. Wall was right, it's very addicting!

I just found this blog at http://whatscookingblog.com/2007/11/25/college-boundand-hungry/
and it caught my eye because I have so many friends who are in college, not necessarily living in dorms, but almost everyone I know rarely cooks. I think it's a bit strange. Is it because they're too lazy? Probably. Is it because they don't know how to? Maybe. Well, this woman volunteered to teach a cooking class to prospective college students who might need a little know how when they go off to college. All the recipes, I've tried, but haven't made...I think I'll do that :)

I thought since I've been all about cooking I'd find something else to blog about http://fashionista.com/2008/09/trendspotting_bra_tops.php
O.K., it's about what's hot and what's not. Who the heck decided this? Don't know runway fashion has always seemed too left field for me, especially for everyday wear and especially what's shown on this blog. Interesting site though, I 've been watching Project Runway, so I thought of fashion. It's so weird because you think no one else has the same interests as you, but whoa millions of people do!