When I first started blogging, I did it to learn what it was about. I've written before that I felt it was important for me to know what I was talking about if I had any plans on blogging with students. Like most new bloggers, finding an audience is tough. Whatever your reasons for blogging, you at least want someone to read your writing. My first comment came from Mister Teacher, who writes a rather entertaining blog, Learn Me Good. I've read his blog for a while and I'm pretty sure he subscribes to mine. He teachers third grade, the grade I used to teach, so I can relate to some of the stuff he writes about.

Anyway, he was given a blogging award recently and as part of the award, was supposed to pass it along to seven of his favorites. I was very surprised to find out that he felt my blog was worthy of this award.



I'm glad someone enjoys my blog enough to feel I'm deserving of this award. I don't want that point to be lost, but I do wonder what this award is for.

I tried to find out the origin of this award or see what it really means. I searched back several people to find some information on it, but couldn't. I checked the person who gave the award to Mister Teacher and the person before and the person before. I went back about 5 or 6 people, but couldn't find what this award meant. I believe the people who have been passing it on are doing so because they feel some of the blogs they read are good. I'm not saying I'm skeptical by any means of this award, but I just wonder who started it. It certainly isn't an award like EduBlogs Best Of...., but I don't think people write blogs to get awards. It's certainly not my goal. Whether many people "vote" for an award like EduBlog Awards, or just one, like the award I got, it's a bonus. Needless to say, it's cool that at least one person thinks my blog isn't too shabby!

I'm not going to pass this award on to anyone else. There are a lot of great blogs I read - check my Blogroll if you're looking for good ones. As far as I'm concerned, they're all worthy.


UPDATE: Just found out this information about this award. Like I thought, not a real award, but it doesn't change my thoughts that any award given to a blog/blogger by someone else does have some importance.

Just like the insane law that tells us to make sure No Child Left Behind, the title of this blog is just as crazy. There will be children left behind, we know they don't all learn at the same pace. We know there are many things out of our control that impact the success our students have. I could go on, but you've heard it before.

We also know there are a ton of blogs out there that we are missing- many that are left behind. I'm guessing that us bloggers have our favorites among the 10, 50, or 100 we try and follow. If you don't have time to check them all, are there a couple of you make sure you check on a regular basis? If so, let me know what they are - I would like to add more to the list I don't keep up with!

Yes, I've been slacking on my blogging and mostly on my reading. Oh well, things come up. The problem with getting behind is the fact that I find myself still reading everything, okay-maybe skimming, but not commenting as much as I'd like. I also don't think I'm taking the time to really read and think about what others are writing. I have to work on this.

Now it's time to prepare for the week, wait to hear about some of your favorite blogs, and recover from the Hannah Montana concert my daughter and I went to today!