Top and Bottom 10 Posts - Another homework post

Many popular blogs publish their "Top 10" or "Top Posts Visited" and while I have never done one I thought I would do one for this homework blog post. 

Top 10 visited blog posts
What is milSuite? June 2010
DoD Computers for Learning Program September 2010
Coke Rewards for Schools August 2010
Readability Indices, Google Docs, MS Word, Outlook, & Twitter Stream February 2012
Heart Graph, Google search features and geeks are cool February 2012
Do You Qurify? Are you using QR Codes? July 2012
APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, Turabian, Vancouver  April 2010
How are you using the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)? May 2012
Docusign Ink App March 2012
GAEE - Oregon, IS339, and PGCPS June 2010

Bottom 10 visited blog posts
Wii Fit June 2008
Reflection and Perspectives August 2009
3 References Do Your Students Have Them? October 2009
From Past to Present August 2009
Have some fun with Binary and Text March 2009
The DD (Digital Divide) in Augusta December 2008
Trust but verify October 2008
Ultimate Parent Guide October 2008
National Writing Project and Google August 2008
Reflection and Transformative Learning March 2009

This activity allows me to reflect and assess the blog activity, my writing skills, links and the relevancy of topics in the blog. Comments, recommendations, reaction box checks, and +1s are always welcome.

Why Blog?

I am taking a 5 week course with East Carolina University and the course funded by my employer for my particular career field, CP 32, Training, Capability, and Doctrine Warfighting Developers.  I am never one to turn down learning opportunities particularly if they have value added to my career field and my cost is more in my time than currency. I consider my time extremely valuable and learning something new everyday is great, but every now and then you need to be the formal documented student.

For subscribers to the blog, you are aware of my extremely painful decision to put my doctoral studies on hold for the sake of family issues. If this is the first time visiting the blog based on the class assignment, "Welcome!".

For the final assignment, one option is to blog. The blog can be on any topic and must contain at least three entries. This has been a class full of web based experiments and writing. We hit the ground running and will not stop until July 26.

So one of the three posts required for the assignment is this one. If you have not seen my blog posts come through the stream lately it is because the days and hours are filled with work, school, and family.

So whether you are new to blogging, given up on blogging, or a seasoned blogger, like those in the blog list on the right that I subscribe to..."Why blog?" For those that know me, the better question is "Why not blog?"

Here are a few links from my knowledge sharing passionistas that I connect with by reading their blogs, following them on Twitter, Google+, or Linkedin, or maybe all of them. Thanks to my personal and professional learning network (PLN) there is not one day that I do not learn something from, because, or in spite of you. It is not possible to list and describe every blog that impacts my digital footprint. In no particular order:

Principal Eric Sheninger's blog, A Principal's Reflections (2012), Why Blog?
Steven Downes, Half an Hour (2009), Blogging in Education
Will Richardson, Weblogg-ed (2004), The Blogging in Schools Question
OEDb, Top 100 Education Blogs (n.d.)
Vicki Davis, Cool Cat Teacher
Richard Byrne, Free Technology For Teachers
US Army Combined Arms Center

I could probably write a blog post once a week on how blogging (individual and collaborative) has impacted my life, fulfilled my autodidactism needs, improved my writing, reading, comprehension, connected me with people and information that I would not have a chance to in the F2F environment, share good and bad news, provide an outlet for those who do not have another method to "just get it out", provide a personal audit trail of information, share lessons learned...and many more reasons. Hmmm...maybe an idea for the next homework blog post.

Thanks again to those people supporting my web experiments during this short, fun, and productive class.
Comments, recommendations, reaction box checks, and +1s are appreciated.