For the past two years, I have not received any reader comments on this blog. Although getting any type of feedback as a blogger is helpful, I just figured that no one had anything to say, wanted to leave a comment, or had questions. Quite honestly, I was okay with that and from the page view statistics, I could tell at least that people were reading my blog.
Cut to last night. While going through my blog settings, I came upon the Comments section, and to my surprise, I found over 125 comments there from the past two years awaiting moderation approval - my moderation, that is! Apparently I had not included a forwarding email address for comment approval so these comments have just been waiting for me who has been clueless that they were even there. Granted about 50 of these comments were from spambots, but oh my gosh, what a treasure these other 75 comments are!
So to those of you have left comments and never heard back from me - I heartily apologize for this! I cannot thank you enough for the kind words and encouragement which many of you left as comments over these past two years. I feel so validated! Many of you left questions about certain activities, and considering that they are from 1.5 years ago, I hope you figured it out. I was not ignoring you at all - I was not even aware that you had left a comment! Feel free to ask again, and I will address it.
Anyhow, I have changed the comments settings so that although it will still remain as an "awaiting moderator approval" section, I will now receive notifications that there are comments waiting for me. Feel free to leave comments now!
Now I'm frantically trying to remember if I said anything snarky. Hope not. For some reason my name comes through as my wife's, Letha. But I am Pat Barrett. I'll keep my comments positive, helpful and polite...... at least the first few.
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No problem - I am just glad to be able to receive and to respond to comments in real time now.
DeleteIt must be exciting to receive all of those comments at once - better than piecemeal. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is so helpful! Did you find it was easier to load slides first and then "bring" them into Nearpod? I get so overwhelmed by the process...where to ask questions etc. This is really helpful!
ReplyDeleteI mapped it out first so that I knew where I wanted to put material and the various activities. I created the powerpoint first with the passages broken up into parts and then imported them into Nearpod. Once they were in Nearpod, I added the various activities between slides. You can also use Google Slides and then use the Nearpod add-in.
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