C4T project

I was assigned to Frank Noschese and he has a blog about action-reaction teaching and how we as teachers can improve our teaching habits through physics. In the first post I commented on he talks about action and reaction of students and why they are sometimes afraid to answer certain questions that they are unsure of the answer. What makes them this way?
I replied, "I believe that a lot of students freeze up on answering questions for Physics because they are scared of rejection. It’s kind of like a guy asking a girl out on a date when he isn’t sure she will say yes. One way that we could show students that its okay just to go with their gut instinct is by making them feel comfortable in the classroom. I know from personal experience that a lot of students scared not only of rejection, but also afraid of being thought of as “dumb”. I know that students do not like to be made fun of and they might be afraid to answer because of getting the answer wrong and being made fun of. Something teachers can do is just to reinforce the fact that its okay to get then answer wrong, but you just got to keep trying and never give up."
The second post was by Daniel Taylor, and he talks about how he goes on about physics experiments and how he just doesn't involve his local students, but also students across the globe. He also mentions that he can better get a hold of the results by this because different places have better equipment than others and it helps to see the differences.
I replied, "I found this blog from Daniel Taylor very interesting because of how he has a passion to help his students learn about physics. I thought the blood spatter project was thoroughly interesting because I am a fan of the show “Dexter” and in that he is a blood spatter expert, and just the fact that your doing projects with students on that was a really awesome idea. I also like the fact that he gets involved with not only his local students but students across the country as well as the world. It is a great idea because he can take all the different approaches and combine it into one to get the most data available just like he said."