Comments on: Therapy can be expensive, blogging is cheap. http://blogush.edublogs.org/2009/05/23/therapy-can-be-expensive-blogging-is-cheap/ Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. --Chinese Proverb Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:23:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Teach_J http://blogush.edublogs.org/2009/05/23/therapy-can-be-expensive-blogging-is-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-679 Teach_J Sun, 24 May 2009 04:01:45 +0000 http://blogush.edublogs.org/?p=232#comment-679 I blogged about your last post and did say something to the effect that the post was about what not to do as a teacher. But I didn't see that as negative, but more likely instructive. While teaching is a wonderful and rewarding career, too often teachers do not always think about how their actions are seen by their students. I am at 15 years into my teaching career and I have been trying to make improvements these last two years, so that my next 15 years are better for my students. I appreciate your blog and it's comments. I blogged about your last post and did say something to the effect that the post was about what not to do as a teacher. But I didn’t see that as negative, but more likely instructive. While teaching is a wonderful and rewarding career, too often teachers do not always think about how their actions are seen by their students. I am at 15 years into my teaching career and I have been trying to make improvements these last two years, so that my next 15 years are better for my students. I appreciate your blog and it’s comments.

]]> By: Miss Cal.Q.L8 http://blogush.edublogs.org/2009/05/23/therapy-can-be-expensive-blogging-is-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-678 Miss Cal.Q.L8 Sun, 24 May 2009 02:54:06 +0000 http://blogush.edublogs.org/?p=232#comment-678 "I am in a period of my career in which I can reflect on nearly 20 years of experience. I am in the most tumultuous period of my career. I can really examine and reflect on my practices in a way a five year veteran simply cannot do. I am looking to find ways to be a better teacher." I haven't truly started my teaching career yet but I can already reflect on things I've seen done and done wrong. I can read blogs and tweets of other teachers and see how/what they reflect on, which causes me to reflect. We need all types of posts/blogs for all types of people to reflect on. I agree with Kelly Hines that negative blogs are those that moan and complain. If you have enough complaining that you need a blog to keep track of all of it, you need a career change! “I am in a period of my career in which I can reflect on nearly 20 years of experience. I am in the most tumultuous period of my career. I can really examine and reflect on my practices in a way a five year veteran simply cannot do. I am looking to find ways to be a better teacher.”

I haven’t truly started my teaching career yet but I can already reflect on things I’ve seen done and done wrong. I can read blogs and tweets of other teachers and see how/what they reflect on, which causes me to reflect. We need all types of posts/blogs for all types of people to reflect on.

I agree with Kelly Hines that negative blogs are those that moan and complain. If you have enough complaining that you need a blog to keep track of all of it, you need a career change!

]]> By: Kelly Hines http://blogush.edublogs.org/2009/05/23/therapy-can-be-expensive-blogging-is-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-677 Kelly Hines Sun, 24 May 2009 02:36:38 +0000 http://blogush.edublogs.org/?p=232#comment-677 I love that you brought this thought process to your blog (which I love reading, by the way). In my mind a positive post is not necessarily one that is oozing of sunshine, rainbows and unicorns. A post can be provocative and reflective in nature while maintaining a very different tone than one I consider to be a negative post. To me, a negative post is one that merely complains. It whines and moans. It seems to state as fact that things are bad and they always will be. Posts that ask hard questions are, in fact, the most positive of all. They suggest that there can and will be improvement. These posts show that the writer is engaged and (even if subtly) optimistic that there is a better a way - and that the author is in seek of this. I love that you brought this thought process to your blog (which I love reading, by the way). In my mind a positive post is not necessarily one that is oozing of sunshine, rainbows and unicorns. A post can be provocative and reflective in nature while maintaining a very different tone than one I consider to be a negative post. To me, a negative post is one that merely complains. It whines and moans. It seems to state as fact that things are bad and they always will be. Posts that ask hard questions are, in fact, the most positive of all. They suggest that there can and will be improvement. These posts show that the writer is engaged and (even if subtly) optimistic that there is a better a way – and that the author is in seek of this.

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