C4T #1

C4T #1 Post #1

In my comment for teacher post, the teacher I was assigned to was a 1st grade teacher name Kathy Cassidy. On her first blog post I read about, she talked about her experience at the Building Learning Communities Conference she attended this year. The BLC is a national educational conference that is held every year for educators around the world. The BLC is a major conference that provide teachers and other individuals with inspiration, practical skills, and expand their professional network. Mrs. Cassidy alone with three other educators were asked to be a speaker at this year BLC conference, and if you know anything about the BLC conference or have ever attended one, then you know how major it must have been to be asked to be a speaker at the conference. On her blog post, Mrs Cassidy uploaded a video of her speaking at the conference , and in the video she basically invited the world into her classroom and gave a presentation on how she teaches her students and some different learning strategies that she use to help her students better understand and become successful learners. In my comment for Mrs Cassidy, I told her that her experience at the BLC conference was very inspiring and that I could only amgine  how exciting it must have been to be apart of something so major and inspiring to other teachers and students around the world.

C4T #1 Post #2

In my most recent comment for teacher post, Mrs Cassidy posted a blog about "The Early Literacy Shift", where she talked about how literacy has really changed from 20 years ago. Mrs Cassidy talked about how vocabulary has changed and how several new words has been created since she was in school. Mrs Cassidy also talked about new ways for kids to learn, new audiences to read kids writings, and new communication forms. In classrooms today kids are learning to become computer literate in the 1st and 2nd grade. In Mrs. Cassidy classroom, she teaches her kids how to use twitter as a back channel to search for characteristics of fairy tales and how to use skype to do reader's theatre with classes in other states. These new ways of learning is a great way to get students more involved and to make learning more fun. Technology also allow kids to grow in knowledge and skills that will better prepare them for their future. In my comment on Mrs. Cassidy blog post, I told her that I totally agree with her about the changes in literacy because I remember when I was in school and we were never allow to use twitter, skype, or created a blog post and share it with other students around the world, when ever we wrote it was on paper or in our notebooks, which only the teacher read or our parents. Now students are allow to created blog post and express themselves through their writing where the hold world can see, and I think that is a great way for young kids to become independent writers.