C4K Mrs. Yollis' Class Blog

I have enjoyed exploring Mrs. Yollis' Class Blog. She is extremely talented and it is clear that she is an amazing educator. She uses Skype to it's full potential by allowing students to communicate with other students around the world, face to face. They had a class to class discussion with a classroom in Australia. They compared America to Australia by asking each other questions and sharing facts. I think this is a much more effective way of teaching that just reading from a book. It's exciting, fun, and memorable.

Her blog is extremely organized and very educational. She also has fun widgets on the sidebar for extra enjoyment. The joke of the day is especially cute. Another nice feature of a blog like this is ability for parents to access there children's work at their convenience. It gives them the opportunity to see inside their child's educational journey, and it keeps them up to date on upcoming events. As a parent I think this is a wonderful tool.

While students are posting on other blogs, creating blogs of their own, researching, and skyping they are developing other great skills. These skills include but are not limited to: communication, typing, reasoning, organization, etc.

Mrs. Yollis' blog is still young, seeing how it was just created a year and a half ago. With this being so it hasn't stopped it from having over 72,000 visitors. I would love to have a class blog like this for my students. I look forward to following Mrs. Yollis' blog and seeing it's progress.