Having read each of the blogs in this Discovery Exercise, I found that what the authors said was pretty much common courtesy when talking to people in face-to-face situations. When I don't know someone I ask lots of questions and try to be as open as I can about myself. When I first started this class in the Fall I fell behind in my work, housework, schoolwork, etc., because I kept going back to my blog and the others that I had added to my reader to see if any new comments were made. Even though I didn't know the other bloggers, I couldn't wait to see what they had to say in their own blogs but more so what they said to me in mine. In just a couple of weeks people must've gotten so busy with school that they stopped commenting...and that's when I fizzled out, too. Luckily now that it is summer it's much easier to keep up and I'm trying to comment on lots of blogs as well as reciprocate with each person who comments on mine. I check back with those people at least once per day to see if they've responded to my comment.
One thing I found interesting was Darren Rowse's comment about not commenting on blogs that require you to sign in. Although I don't mind signing in, I've had lots of trouble with this issue. Almost every time I try to sign in it takes me to my own dashboard. Sometimes I'm able to sign in several times and then it finally allows my comment to go through, but last night I tried over and over for probably six or seven times and it just looped back and forth between the dashboard and their blog. Anybody else have this problem? If you have any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong PLEASE feel free to tell me!
I only have trouble when I try to go back and forth between my personal Google account (which I had first) and the Mesquite ISD Google account. Could that be what is happening to you? It can be messy trying to sort through both of them.
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