My Two Blogs

Ms. Cassidy's Classroom Blog

This blog is written by Kathy Cassidy, a first grade teacher from Canada. Cassidy's blog records her classroom activities through text, pictures, and videos. Cassidy incorporates many different types of technology into her classroom. She has used Twitter so her class could play the "Guess My Number" game with another class in Milan, Italy. She created the "Snow Clothes Challenge" in her classroom and then aired the video so other classrooms all over could also do the challenge. She uses technology like YouTube and Skype to communicate with teachers and classes all over the world. She has even created blogs from each of the children in her class to track their individual progress.

Technology in classrooms is so important, especially with this generation. Similar to what we discussed in class, Cassidy teaches her students through technology. She keeps them interested and entertained while teaching them important lessons. Cassidy not only implements using technology in her classroom, but also in classrooms all over the world.

http://mscassidysclass.edublogs.org/

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This blog is written by Dan Meyer, who previously taught high school math teacher and is currently studying math education at Stanford. His blog is primarily math based, which was my reason for choosing it. I am interested in teaching middle school or high school math. Meyer's blog contains helpful hints and tools to use in the classroom. Reading through some of his post, I found a post about Function Carnival, an online math program. As Meyer explains, this is program allows students to do so much more than just fill in the blank or respond to a multiple choice question.

Example from Function Carnival

The above image from Meyer's blog shows an example of a question that would come from Function Carnival. The program is interactive, as opposed to your typical online math programs. Meyer's blog also contains other math related posts that give advice on how to make your class more interesting for the students.

http://blog.mrmeyer.com/