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Comment on Primary Media Literacy by Media Literacy « Miss Toppings' Blog

Media Literacy « Miss Toppings' Blog — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:51:21 +0000

[...] reading Kathy Cassidy’s blog I came across this video about media literacy. I was surprised at how many aspects of the [...]

Comment on Early Childhood Resources by kathycassidy

kathycassidy — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:09:01 +0000

My pleasure, Marie. I’m glad you find it useful.

Comment on Early Childhood Resources by Marie

Marie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:06:15 +0000

Hello Kathy,
I just wanted to thank you SO much for sharing this awesome resource. I’m anxious to use some new tools with my Grade 3’s and share them all with my colleagues. Your students are very lucky to have you as their teacher.
Marie

Comment on Using Video to Capture Learning by kathycassidy

kathycassidy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:49:13 +0000

Thanks for your comments, Linda. I have been seeing a few more examples of students learning being “captured” lately, so I hope the trend that way continues.

Comment on Using Video to Capture Learning by Linda

Linda — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:50:21 +0000

Kathy,

Thanks for a great post. I agree with you about emphasizing the capturing of the learning and not necessarily the polished product. I’m letting go of the perfection I used to feel a video needed to have if it was going public. It is liberating.

Thankfully, my school district does not filter YouTube. However, they have asked us not to post videos on it. We can take, but we cannot give. I hope that changes soon.

Your students are great messengers for the use of classroom video!

Linda

Comment on Dabbling with DS and Deaf Dogs by charlesss

charlesss — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:56:58 +0000

Got I love my Nintendo DSi, got it when it came out and haven’t regretted my purchase yet.

Comment on Kathy Cassidy by Arlin

Arlin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:06:01 +0000

Wow Kathy,

I am quite impressed with your blog, especially the article on incorporating the Nintendo DS into the classroom.

Also neat is how you are creatively having your students use Vocaroo.

Keep up the great work!

Comment on I Love Classblogmeister by kathycassidy

kathycassidy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:52:25 +0000

Hi Jan,
The only way to create a totally new blog in Classblogmeister is to use a new email address. I know some teachers that do this–they have a different blog for each year that they blog.
Classblogmeister has a feature that allows you to “orphan” the students from your class instead of deleting their pages. They are still there on the web, just not linked to anything. This is what I do. In the spring, I tell the parents that I will be doing this, to allow them time to bookmark their child’s blog. I leave the student’s blogs up over the summer so that they can continue to blog, but orphan them just before I put up the new student’s blogs. That way, the url of my blog stays the same.

Comment on I Love Classblogmeister by Jan

Jan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:40:00 +0000

I love your idea of having a parent night to explain blogging to parents. I plan to do that next year with my first graders. I’ll leave my current blog as is so I can show parents what we did this year. How do you start a blog with new kids in the fall? Do you delete your entire blog from the previous year and start over? I’d like to think that my previous class might want to go back to it occasionally. Love to hear how you handle this. Thanks for your willingness to share your experiences with those of us who are hungry to learn.

Comment on Proving It by kathycassidy

kathycassidy — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:06:09 +0000

I’d be happy for you to use some of the graphs. They are really Etty’s graphs, but she has always freely shared her results.

Good luck with your presentation.