Engaging with Social Media
I realized yesterday that it's been about a year since I got back on Facebook. It was quite the anniversary... I chose to comment on a thread in a homeschool group I had joined on Facebook. The person who started the thread asked for insight about how to help her young daughter who didn't want to do her handwriting. I commented that I had been reading a book about handwriting research and that it was interesting to read about the important connection between the automaticity of handwriting and becoming a fluent writer. Someone else commented and asked for the title of the book--which I replied with. Then, the original person who started the thread commented about how she agreed with the importance of reading and writing and that they are foundational. Well, it went downhill from there... I replied with this, "I agree that reading and writing are the foundation of everything. ;) " I included the wink. The wink just meant to me that I agreed--and I ...