Blog Post # 10: What can we learn from Mrs. Cassidy?

Mrs. Cassidy is a first grade teacher in Moose Jaw, Canada. Little Kids...Big Potential is a short video about her students and what they think of the class. Her students like to write on their blogs more than their books because of the comments that they get on their posts. The students can see the changes in their writings and understand the right way to comment on a peers post. At school and at home the students can go onto different learning friendly sights that are educational through her webpage. Being so technologically advanced her students use Skype to interact with different classrooms and learn more about different cultures.

Interview with Cassidy Part 1, Interview with Cassidy Part 2, and Interview with Cassidy Part 3 are all parts of an interview with Kathy Cassidy and how she came to start about in her teaching style with computers. In this interview she explains that she started when computers were donated to her and 10 years from the day of the interview started her webpage. 5 years before the interview was the start of her blog and 2 years before the interview was the start of the video of her students using technology to better their education. The best part of the way Mrs. Cassidy explains her way to teaching with technology is the endeavor to keep the identity of the students safe, but while also allowing the students and parents to understand that they will always be using technology and the internet. The way that she uses her students blogs as a way to keep their work together is a way that I plan on using in my own classroom in the future. Also with her idea of the audience of the blogs being a great motivator to the students. In this first video "Little Kids...Big Potential", the kids state that they love to write on their blogs because of the views and comments. Mrs. Cassidy explains that the best way to get interested in technology is to find a way to express your own likes, such as Flickr if you are interested in photos or videos, or blogs if you love to write.

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