Comments on This Swiftly Tilting Planet: I am a blogger...

I am a blogger ... and this blogger really agrees ...

2010-02-23T14:52:45.238-06:00

I am a blogger ... and this blogger really agrees with this statement from your post: "To me blogging is not about the writing, it's about the sharing of ideas, the creation of discussion with other people interested in the same things as me."

Mark, thanks for clarifying! This is exactly what ...

2010-02-22T21:39:47.107-06:00

Mark, thanks for clarifying! This is exactly what I love most about blogging - the ongoing discussion of ideas among people separated by distance and time, but that share a passion for the same topics, ideals, and concepts.

I agree that we should make sure teachers understand (let me steal from my superintendent here) that blogging "is just another tool in their instructional tool belt. If a teacher only has a hammer in his/her tool belt, then every student gets treated like a nail, even if they aren't."

Hey, Brian. Obviously I have no problem with the b...

2010-02-22T15:50:50.981-06:00

Hey, Brian.
Obviously I have no problem with the blog itself, as I use one often. It's a great productivity tool. I just want to caution people to not reduce art to the level of using a tool. Perhaps a better title for the post would have been, "I don't want to be merely a blogger." My hope is that we'll be very careful in the realm of education to teach the art of writing and use the blog as a publication method, rather than to assume that the ability to publish equates to the ability to write.

Agree, in some ways I feel like blogging is a more...

2010-02-22T14:54:12.694-06:00

Agree, in some ways I feel like blogging is a more authentic form of writing because it does invite conversation. What we write is not static, it is constantly changing and evolving based on what others add to it. I am a blogger.