Blogs of Interest and finally taking the big step of commenting on others blogs!

In this tutorial we got the chance to finally explore the wider community of blogging! We were to search and find other blogs relating to Occupational therapy. This task made me realise just how common and well used this blog business is. I mean I never thought of there being so many blogs with people expressing their opinions and sharing their knowledge to the world about everything and anything. By having the chance to explore it has made me feel much more comfortable writing on my blog as I have now realised that probably the only people that will read this is my lecturer and my classmates wanting to have a sneak peak at my work like I have been doing to them. I mean who in the world would really want to look at a student’s class blog ... I certainly wouldn’t when there is much more exciting, interesting and creative blogs to read and look at.

I have connected with 8 blogs which are to the right of the page under blogs of interest. I was only meant to have 5 but... i got to excited and wanted to connect with everything and everyones bloggs! So yet another great way to procrastinate and distract myself.

So now that I have became followers to the 8 amazing blogs I found... my next task was to comment on them. Now this is where I became shy and scared as I didn’t feel that confident to voice my opinion onto random peoples blogs so I stuck to the good old classmates which therefore meant if I made a fool of myself or commented wrong then it wouldn’t really matter and less people from the outside world would be able to see.

So those first initial thoughts of being scared and nervous to comment were actually... wrong! I ended up getting very carried away with commenting on other peoples pages and discovered it was much more fun providing feedback and positive reinforcement to them than it was posting blogs on my own page. Here is the link to examples of comments I posted onto pages,
http://jasminemoot12.blogspot.com/2011/04/video-production-sessions.html#comments 

And the second example from another classmates page -

http://kels17.blogspot.com/2011/03/information-technology-and-ethics.html#comments