Thing #4

     Commenting on other people's blogs keeps blogging interactive and fun!  Blogging would not be interactive at all if no one ever commented.  The cool cat teacher blog said "If one is an expert, I guess they may just want to keep their "wisdom" on their own blog, but the true conversation participants are those who contribute to the discussion wherever the blog posting is."  I really liked this part of her blog and really thought it was true.   Blogging is definitely more than just posting on your own blog.  Also, I enjoyed reading the 10 techniques to get more comments,  I never thought about asking questions or being totally open ended in my blogs until I read this.  It gave me some new ideas.  
       I chose to read and comment on  Sherry McNeily's and Kanika Wallace's  thing #2 posts honestly because I sit next to them in class.  It was fun to see parts of  their personality in their blogs that I do not get to see in class.  Their post made it very easy for me to comment on them.   I really agreed with Autumn Kirkland's thing #3 post and that is why I chose to comment on it.  I also think that discussion blogs for literature classes would be a fantastic idea.   I read and commented on Sarah Hammontree's thing #8 and Ashley Hartling's thing #6 because they are both a lot farther ahead than me, and I was curious.  I commented on Sarah's thing #8 about her puzzle picture because it was so adorable!  I  want to catch up to thing #8 so I can see the trouble that she was having.  Ashley's thing #6, I actually plan to use to make birthday party invites for my little sisters sweet 16.  I liked telling her that in my comment.  I am excited to use smore.com.  
    The other 2 blogs that I chose to comment on were Misty Wallace's "Pray" blog and a teacher blog called "teaching in high heels".  Misty is a friend of mine that is a missionary, so I loved reading her latest blog.  The teacher blog had a picture of "Sight words chant sticks" I told her through my comment that I loved her ideas and would love to use them one day and thanks for sharing her ideas!