Blog Post #9

For this blog post, we were to watch Kathy Cassidy's interviews and personal videos where she recorded what goes on inside of her classroom. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the videos (as always) because the teachers give so much useful information to help us, as future teachers, later on.

In the video Little Kids.. Big Potential, Mrs. Cassidy recorded her class and showed us what the inside of her classroom looks like. She is a first grade teacher with very smart students. The students post their work online (using Blogger) so that the whole world can see. Other students, future teachers (college students), teachers, and parents are commenting on their work and giving feed back to the students. They are having online video conversations with professionals to be able to ask them questions and get useful and knowledgeable answers/feedback from an actual person.

In Interview with Kathy Cassidy part 1, she discusses how she came about to share what goes on inside her classroom; why she uploaded the original video of "Little Kids.. Big Potential". She discusses how her students and parents love and appreciate using blog. One very useful tool she mentioned in this interview was about using "class blog mister". Class blog mister keeps track of how many page views each students blog receives. Students are excited to view how many page views they have received because of the huge and diverse audience.

In Interview with Kathy Cassidy part 2, she discusses how twitter is useful for your PLN (personal learning network). Even though it takes time to find people who will be an asset to your PLN, it is very useful when you do. Others will upload useful links which you may stumble across that you may you want to try out, do further research about, or actually start using right away.


In Interview with Kathy Cassidy part 3, students from EDM310 at the University of South Alabama asked Kathy Cassidy questions, in which, she responded and gave advice about. Students asked questions about blogs, Facebook, protection of young students from outside world while online, and commenting on others blogs.

The videos provided by Kathy Cassidy are very beneficial to future students. One topic that truly stood out to me when watching the interviews was during interview 3. A students asking Kathy Cassidy about how to protect students from the outside world. They can range from spam, predators, etc. Her response to this concern was teaching the students how to use the internet and what to do on the internet. With today's technology so advanced, students need to know what to do in case they are confronted with a problem. This is useful not only in school but while at home as well.