Sunday, April 15, 2012
Blog Post #11
Ms. Cassidy has done an excellent job of putting into practicing many of the ideas and teaching methods that we have discussed throughout out this class. Ms. Cassidy’s students were enjoying learning, which makes for the best kind of students, attentive ones. Her use of Nintendo’s, class room webpages, blogs, wikis, and skype has created a melting pot of technologically relevant learning resources for her students. I will definitely try to incorporate each and every one of those things into my own teaching plan. The class room web page was most impressive to me as these very young students actually enjoyed looking at it. We all know that a class room webpage is great for parents, teachers, and staff. To make a class room web page where the students actually enjoy checking it out is a wonderful accomplishment. From the interview with Dr. Strange, we see her total commitment to bringing technology to her students. Ms. Cassidy has a fantastic attitude in regards to her commitment to continue learning about and teaching technology to students no matter what road blocks may ever stand in her way. The actual application of using these resources was very nice to see as well. So often we hear ideas about things that we should do, but actually seeing children smiling because an idea has actually been put into action was a very nice thing to see. I wish Ms. Cassidy the best, and to just keep doing what she has been doing.
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Hey Carrie,
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you see the value in the classroom web page. There are many different types of sites that offer free accounts to put up your web pages online. What if your superintendent doesn't allow our students to use blogs? What could you do to change their minds? Would you show them this blog? Would you show them this blogpost?
Stephen Akins
Hi Carrie,
ReplyDeleteI also love this interview. It was a joy to hear from a teacher that's actually in the classroom. I really valued what she had to say, and it seems you did too! Also, Stephen made some good points that I hadn't thought of. Did you?
Courtney Muse