So, this may seem weird but the tech task I had the most trouble with this week was participating in an educational chat on twitter.  That's why I have left it until last and why it's happening late on a Sunday evening, I've been watching YouTube tutorials and reading different blogs on how to do this.  I think I have actually got the hang of it now, I've been trying to figure this out all week and maybe I'm still a touch confused (so if you have any tips for me or a how to, please share!) and I haven't got to participate in a live chat, that's my personal goal for this week coming up.  But I did check out the #midleved which is a chat specifically for middle years teachers and students which was pretty awesome!  I used the website, Tweetchat, this website made the chat way easier than just using twitter.  If you haven't looked at this website for participating in chats on twitter you should check it out!  When I participated in this chat, I posted a video (the same video I posted earlier in this blog about 21st Century Education) and I had to use the bitly website to shorten my url to fit into the twitter message box, which was also new for me!
Also, look what I found when I took a browsey on the #midleved chat...if any of you have iPads, this is a pretty cool picture.  Even if you don't have an iPad these are things you can just use a computer for!  I found it in an article written by Jeff Dunn.  Jeff is totally someone worth checking out, he has tons of great stuff about technology.

Today the top thing on my to do list was to find other bloggers to follow, so here is the list I have come up with so far:
1. Jeff Utecht created a blog called 'The Thinking Stick' where he talks about technology and I found that he updates it very often.  I think that this blog is going to be an asset to me in this course.
2. Steven writes a blog called 'Library Stuff', I was interested in this blog because I really like getting new resources and finding new books to use in my classroom, when I get one.
3. Troy Hicks writes a blog about teaching called, 'Digital Writing, Digital Teaching' and from what I have read it is very interesting so far.  There is lots about technology and lots of other stuff to do with teaching!
4. Alexander Russo created a blog called 'This Week in Education' which is all about recent happenings in the world of education.  I'm really excited about this one because I really want to know more about whats going on.
5. Joe Brower is the author is the blog titled, 'For the Love of Learning' which was a blog I was told to read months ago and I just never got around to it, so I'm using this opportunity to read it now!
6. Megan Ginther-Strohhaecker mentioned on her blog Stump the Teacher by Josh Stumpenhorst, there is a slight humour in it that I enjoy.  So thanks Megan for the awesome blog to follow!

So these are the blogs that I'm following at the moment but I'm sure reading all of my classmates blogs on who they are following and twitter will definitely give me more to follow!

Today I spent some time looking at #comments4kids on twitter and found one students' blog that had no comments on it.  I know how awesome it is to go onto your blog to see that you have comments on your post so I thought that student would benefit from a comment.  #comments4kids is a pretty awesome thing on twitter, I think it is going to help a lot of students.  Many of the blogs I came across today said things like they only welcomed positive or helpful comments.  I think that's very helpful for the students creating these blogs, this acts like an awesome learning project for them.  This is definitely something I would be interested in doing with my own students when I get a classroom!