Motivation by Tony Gurr

Due to the fact that I don't blog very much, I'm very accustomed to the blogging style that our class and group blogs use. I'm fixed on the image that blogs are usually "text" posts with a occasional picture or two. When I first visited Tony's blog, I was really confused and surprised about his blogging style. Even though it was confusing at first, I realized that his blogging style was very interesting and unique.

Although I usually think using pictures are a good way to draw peoples attention to a message, at the same time it can sway the original message intended. But in Tony's case its a bit different. The images he choose to use for his posts relate to his original message and captured 'my' attention at the same time. At first I had to read his post a couple times in order to get accustomed to his style. After getting used to his style of blogging I started to understand more of his messages intended in the post. From what I have understood from his motivational post I believe his main ideas where that students learn best from the people they like and respect, from a variety of sources and environments, and if the teachers respect the students; treating students more as "friends" than strangers. I personally agree with all the points he's made. I find if I like and respect a teacher I would do much more better in that class than if I dislike the teacher.

One of Tony's pictures used:

 
I find this post relatable to me because I believe if a teacher works in smaller group on a daily basis I can expand my potential more than working in a larger group. Also I believe active student learning is much more effective than if you were to read about it. In my opinion, actually doing an activity helps me learn and keep my knowledge of that subject for a longer period of time, more than if I were to just read about it in a text (e.g read than forget process).

I find Tony's blog to be very unique and different than all the other blogs I have seen so far. I am also very impressed of the fact that Tony makes all his graphics on his own. I can't even imagine how much time and effort he has put into his blog! As mentioned above all the images he's chosen to use for each of his messages were relatable to his posts and myself also. I enjoyed Tony's motivational post a lot and it somewhat motivates me to attempt to put much more visual into my posts.