Award-winning Teacher Blog Review

Picture of students reading

The award-winning teacher blog that I chose to review was Ms. Cassidy's classroom blog. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed searching through Ms. Cassidy's blog site. By the time I had read her classroom blog posts and her students blog posts, I felt like I was part of her class. I think the purpose of Ms. Cassidy's classroom blog site is to invite you into her classroom, and encourage you to share new ideas or uplifting words to her students for their accomplishments. Ms. Cassidy's classroom blog was so creative, and I was able to learn and get ideas from visiting it.

Video on racing sphero cars

I enjoyed Ms. Cassidy's use of technology on her blog site. I noticed that she used pictures, videos, and podcasts. She used pictures in her blog posts of what her students were working on during a typical day in their classroom. In addition to this, she used pictures in the individual children's learning blogs in that each child drew a portrait of themselves. She used videos for her end of the year reflections where she interviewed her students. She also used videos to show some fun classroom activities they did such as racing sphero cars. Ms. Cassidy used podcast in that her students recorded themselves reading periodically using an app called Book Creator. I thought this was a great idea and activity for the children and would encourage them in reading aloud. Ms. Cassidy's classroom blog also had a twitter account for their classroom that you could view on her blog site. I thought this was a very interesting way in integrating technology into the classroom. On the twitter account, Ms. Cassidy shared her student's artwork and what they had been learning and what activities they had been participating in. I think this is a great way to use technology in the classroom, and I think this blog site is very beneficial to parents and students. The students are learning how to pair technology with academics at a young age.