Reflecting on Ms. Cassidy's Blog

Ms. Cassidy’s Classroom Blog is a blog about a class of six-year-olds in Canada.  This blog illustrates how great of a teacher Ms. Cassidy is!  She uses technology often in her classroom: she has students read to Rebecca, a future teacher, through Skype; each of the students have their own blog; she has a class Twitter account.  The students’ individual blogs have videos that show different lessons such as adding, subtraction, and the senses.  The students also comment on each other’s blogs.  I find this to be very impressive, especially for students of this age.  The class Twitter account is linked to the class blog, and this shows that each of the students have an opportunity to post a photo of anything they are learning in the classroom.  This is helpful because it is another way to inform the parents what their students are learning, and it could be used as a way to assess the students in a unique new way.  A second way that technology is included in the classroom is through the use of iPads.  Ms. Cassidy’s blog shows that the students in her class use iPads for measuring in math, taking photos, and a number of other ways.  This information is something that I find important to place in a blog because, like the Twitter account, it allows other teachers and parents to see how their students are learning in ways that are creative and new.  It is important for teachers to incorporate technology into his or her classroom, and I truly believe that Ms. Cassidy does this in the most effective ways which are shown through her class blog. 

The blog itself is free of grammatical spelling and punctuation and it is easy to read. There are many photos and videos that enhance the blogs visual appearance as well as the content.  Overall, Ms. Cassidy's blog is one that I would look to as an example for a future classroom blog.