Week 9: Blog Review

           Lisa Nielsen writes the blog “The Innovative Educator” in which she shares ideas for making a learning environment a more exciting place. She writes about ideas and recommendations she has geared towards educators and people interested in education. She embraces technology as a factor to be used in the education process.

            She’s made blog posts titled “Celly for Administrators, Teachers, and Students” as well as “Twitter for Administrators, Teachers, and Students” in which she explains how technology that is consistently banned in the classroom should in fact be embraced. She uses examples from different types of schools or teachers as well as her own ideas to prove why these types of technology should be used in the classroom. She believes these types of technologies are easy ways to communicate as well as review questions in a classroom.

            She also posts true stories on how technology has helped education. In one blog post titled “Develop language skills with cell phones- True stories” she talks about Google Voice, which has been used for oral reports, assignments, and sound bites. In her blog she introduces these types of technologies so educators can be informed of them and use them in the classroom. In this particular blogpost she inserts an anecdote from a teacher’s experience using the technology.

http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/