Literacy Goals: Response to "Goals"

Original post that inspired my response located here.

I use reading to transport myself/my children/my students into other character's lives and their worlds.

I like to imagine what it would be like if I had the Chocolate Touch or discovered a golden ticket to Wonka's candy factory!

I can relate to some characters like Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn, young Abe Lincoln, and Calvin/Hobbes kind of in the same way that I can relate to my real-life friends. They make me snicker out loud and shake my head with their shenanigans.

I use writing to communicate my thoughts and opinions to others. Some of my friends/people that I look up to as role models like to read poetry, maybe wiki/blog comments, others e-mail, so I think about what the best way is to communicate my ideas with my audience.

Goals for Reading:
-Ask friends/role models for their suggestions
-Pass along my suggestions for good books to anyone who is interested
-Use reading as a tool to become an effective teacher, supportive/nurturing parent and keep my curiosity going

Goals for Writing:
-Share my ideas/interests/strengths with others to make a positive change in the world
-Demonstrate to my children and classroom students that I am a writer who struggles with what to write but also feels good when my message/voice is out there for other people to read

Plinky Prompts

Social networks like Facebook, and MySpace demand ever-changing, entertaining content and earlier this year I stumbled across a website that can help beginning Bloggers like myself stay motivated to post content online.

Plinky is a free site that you can join to have thought-provoking, idea-inspiring writing prompts sent directly to your e-mail address. These ideas can then be either answered via Plinky for other users to read, or posted on your particular website for your readers to enjoy.

Themes to respond to range from ecological issues to what-if situations and are displayed in a list format. The list can then be sorted by either newest posted prompt or oldest.

I suppose that Plinky could also be used as a polling question engine (with some tweaking) for those of us who use Poll Everywhere on our wiki/blog locations or use the polling tool offered with Cover It Live during live blog sessions.

I personally would rather read a response to "There's never enough time, is there? What would you do with an extra three hours today?," compared to a one-lined "we're out of cereal again; headed to the store. AARRRGGG" update.