I don’t mind leaving comments, but I always read them before I publish them to make sure I am coming across the way I want. I know a few people in this class so I commented on the theirs. I also took the risk of commenting on someone’s that I don’t know. I hope they are OK with that.  That is when I felt a little funny…commenting on someone’s blog that I didn’t know who they were.  I enjoyed reading other peoples aspects on things and could see their side of the story too if it was different with mine.

I think this would be a great tool for students that are aprehensive about receiving oral comments about their writing and it was a good way to get feedback – negative or positive – to improve themselves.

I am a member of Facebook. I do reread my comments before I post them to make sure they come across the way I intended. I can see how some people add information that is way to personal too. I also see how some parents are allowing their young children have a Facebook page. I don’t agree with this.  I have two in my distant family…ages 11, and 12.

In my personal life, Google Docs will be a great way for my siblings and I to communicate on certain things. For instance, there are five of us and to come up with ideas or share information it is like sending a billion emails.  I like that we can all share this one page.  Currently we are all discussing Christmas ideas for our dad and planning our Christmas gathering. I created a page that we can all go to and list our ideas and plans for our gathering.  I am excited for my siblings to check it out and see how much easier it will be than sending and replying to many emails.

Google maps is amazing. I have looked at these before. I noticed that when I looked at the satellite view that it is still out of date.  We built a new house 4 years ago and it still does not show up on the satellite image.  It is impressing to look at, but a bummer that it is so out of date.  I liked the other ways to view maps too. I checked out Muskegon and also the town I grew up in, Lowell.  I think that the traffic view will be great for traveling somewhere to see if there are roads closed.  I currently had a friend traveling to GR from by Mackinac and said 131 was closed. I didn’t hear of that so I checked it out on the traffic map and sure enough it shows that it is closed and due to open sometime in May. This is good to know because I usually travel that way a couple times a year.

I think students would love to see this especially when different places are being discussed and they are not familiar with them. I think that the terrain views will be great to use in social studies classes when discussing land forms, etc…

I thought that was very interesting and looking forward to sharing this information.