Blog post #11

In the video Little Kids...Big Potential, the kids talk about how they like writing a blog because they like getting comments from people.  They said their writing gets better every time they write on the blog.  The kids talk about commenting on other peoples' blogs, they said you should always say something nice to the people you are commenting on, so you don't hurt their feelings.  At their centers at school, the computers have pictures they can click on to go to a webpage to play learning games.  They made wiki's and all kinds of people helped them learn about traditions, rituals, and the alphabet.  They made videos to put online to help them learn.  They used skype to talk to people from different places.  They even played Nintendo DS, to play learning games.  They said the DS's helped them with problem solving and sharing.

Ms. Cassidy talked about many good reasons for using the internet in the classroom.  I think it is a good idea to have technology in the classroom.  It is so true that technology has exploded and it is not going away anytime soon.  One of the things she talked about was having a class blog.  I have never used a blog until this EDM310 class, but I believe it is a great idea.  It is a great way for all the students to keep up with all the things going on in school and also for parents to keep up, in better detail, with how and what their children are doing in class.  I hope to get a job as a teacher, in a classroom, where I am fortunate enough to have a few computers in my room.  This is definitely something that I would like to use in my very own classroom.