Thing 4

Explain why commenting on blogs help create a sense of community and interaction

By having an active blog, users can strengthen their followers (community), post information that might be useful for other educators, and

http://www.thenerdyteacher.com/
Failing Loud and Proud is a post by Nicholas Provenzano, telling us a situation where he had his class submit an assignment on Google Classroom.  This was his first time going onto this tool, and had difficulty explaining it to the students.  Nicholas Provenzano explains how it is important for teachers to have possible failures, we are human, but also important to be able to overcome from those failure in front of the students.
My comment was related to this idea that by overcoming failure is what makes teachers a success in the eyes of our students.  By allowing the failure to break us down would lower their opinions.

http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/
Here I looked at Teaching Tom.  He is a preschool teacher, where I am entering into Secondary Education.  However, it could be a useful blog to get insights into a different perspective/grade level of education

http://www.frogblog.ie/
I looked at the Frog Blog, but unfortunately it is closing down.

http://annmichaelsen.com/2011/03/16/using-the-film-%e2%80%98gran-torino%e2%80%99-teaching-english-social-studies/
I read Ann S. Michaelsen's post about how to use the film Gran Torino in her classroom.  I did not agree with it's purpose in school, I did enjoy the film and understand how its focus could be used to identify the barriers to diversity, stereotypes, and levels of society.  However, I agreed with one of the comments that I felt that the content and language of the film was not appropriate for the classroom.

http://www.classroomchronicles.net/2014/09/30/creative-commons-with-kathy-schrock/
Kathy Shrock's post was about how to use Creative Commons as a resource for teachers to avoid plagiarism when using Flickr accounts, etc.

http://www.ctrlaltteach.com/catching-fire-new-year-hunger-games-pop-culture-teaching-tools/#.VDb3db0o6Uk
This blog was about how to use Catching Fire and other pop-cultures in the classroom.  This is important to take in since student's #1 focus is normally not on education and the lesson.  Teachers must find a motivator to relate material or gain their focus.

http://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/2013/06/02/creative-commons-infographic/
I read this post by Kathleen Morris about Creative Commons.  This post's content was similar to the class discussion on Creative Commons in Educ5540.  Students and teachers need to be familiar with this standard and abide by its regulations on citing and what resources to use from sites.