Don't Count the Comments

I’ll admit that with each slice I post, I count the comments. It’s funny, I know I shouldn’t. But let's face it; comments make us feel good and urge writers onward. They act as proof that we have touched someone with our written words. 

Yesterday's comment competition validated my obsession. It also got me thinking about the influence our posts have on readers who may not leave a comment. 

For example, the other morning I was poking around in different slices and I came across an absolutely incredible poem for teaching second graders about list poems. Not only was the poem out of this world, but the slicer put it on a Haiku Deck (which if you haven’t ever seen, you must check out as soon as you finish reading my slice)! I was so caught up in the brilliance of it, that I lost track of the time and neglected to comment.

So here’s a belated comment for Diana Martin at One Literacy Coach

Dear Diana,

Thank you so very much for inspiring my writing lesson for today. My students took off with their These I Am poems in the way that every teacher of writing hopes her students will take off! And as if the poetry writing wasn’t enough, I told my best friend at work, a major techie about Haiku Deck and now she’s using it with her newly acquired classroom iPads.

And one more thing, today I received an email from Adam Tratt, CEO at Haiku Deck and this is what he said:

                             ….welcome to our community of dreamers,

 idea creators, information energizers, classroom igniters, and

thought provokers.   I just may add them to my own These I Am poem!

by jaeden

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