C4K #10: Special Assignment: Ms. Yollis' Blog

For part one of my 11/13/2011 C4K assignment, I visited Ms. Yollis' classroom blog. Ms. Yollis has taught for twenty-five years and seems to really love her job. She teaches twenty-two children in Los Angeles this year, and they blog together as part of the classroom assignments.

One link out of her blog leads to her webpage, another very impressive website. She has multiple links on the left-hand sidebar, and by the description on her welcome page, they include links to various games and articles for students to practice with at home. Students can even check their homework online, a resource which is probably great for parents as well, especially when students are less than honest about the work they need to do.

Back on her main page, she has all sorts of neat gadgets, but the World Cluster Map stands out. At the time of writing, she had over 72,000 visitors! Wow! And that is in less than two years. Our webpage has had 48,860 visitors since the same time, which is also a rather impressive number. Her visitors are from literally all over the world, which is very impressive. Students participate in many different technology activites, such as skyping with a group of students in Australia. I wish I could have done something like that in Elementary School!

Another thing that I thought was neat was how her class trick-or-treated for UNICEF, an activity I actually took part in during high school. What a great way to teach children service to others!