I read the post that Dean Shareski posted onto the class blog a few moments ago and I thought it was an interesting read.  Sometimes people use 'interesting' as a synonym for 'bad' but that's not how I'm using it in this case.  I genuinly found it interesting.  Many of the courses I took in my third year seemed to take on this view, one in particular was Dave Gray's class...or at least in my opinion it was.  The post is titled "Why we work together - learning as cheating" by Dave Cormier.  In my third year I learned a lot about PLCs (Professional Learning Communitites) which I think is what this post is about, having people there to help you and learning from the people around you.  We are all pretty close in the middle years section and we got help from each other the entire year and definitely learned a ton from each other.  This is something that I hope I can find at whatever school I get a job at, which shouldn't be hard...us teachers are pretty helpful :) 
I really agree with what Dave said in this piece. "I could have given you a step by step process for doing that…and we would have finished faster. But i don’t consider actually just ‘getting the job done’ to be the same thing as understanding."  (Dave Cormier) when he was talking about giving the assignment of starting a new blog.  Similar to this class, we weren't given a lot of direction but I really felt that I actually learned how to set up a blog.  I looked this up on google and found tutorials on YouTube that was really helpful and I learned what I wanted to.  If I feel I don't want something in my blog I won't really look to find how to get it in but when I wanted to put in a twitter button I learned how.  I think this is an awesome way to learn because I feel like I am retaining everything whereas if I was forced to do something or do it a certain way I would just figure out how to do it but probably not remember anything.

Blogging has always seemed like something people do who have a lot to talk about and until recently I haven't put myself in that category.  After reading the article Dean Shareski posted to our Ecmp 355 blog, titled Talker's Block  by Seth Godin I have changed my mind.  My favourite quote from this blog/article was, "Write like you talk.  Often."  (Seth Godin, Talker's Block)  I took a creative writing class in high school and this was the exact advice I was given by my high school teacher, our assignment was to keep a journal and write every day.  So, I sort of feel comfort in this blog and I also seem to be taking this blog a bit more serious than the journal I just kept for myself in high school.  I suppose this connects to the class we had earlier in the week; I wrote in my notes that when student work is on the internet for the whole world to see students feel it has a lasting and meaningful effect on them, which I took from Dean Shareski.  This is how I feel, I don't hit the 'publish' button on here until I've looked through my post and made sure I am feeling okay with the post I have just written.  So, if I feel this way about my words that I'm posting to the world to see, students should/hopefully have a similar feeling with their work.  

Also, if you have five and a half minutes to spare, take a look at this video I posted below.  I really encourage you to check it out, you won't be disappointed!