C4K #11 Part 1

Ms. Yollis’ Classroom Blog is very organized and detailed! At the very top of the blog there are links to help guide you around it. They have a blog archive with links to each month. Each month has links under them to click on and see what the class was doing for that month. The main body of the blog lists information by earliest date. The first post talks about how the class raised money for UNICEF. Their goal was $25 but they raised over $200. Each post has multiple pictures for viewing. If you click on the pictures, you will be taken to a new page to view and skim through all of the pictures for that particular blog post.

A big event going on for Ms. Yollis’ class is Family Blogging for the month of November! Parents like the idea because they feel connected to what’s going on in their child’s classroom. Some parents even posted comments to their kids pretending to be their family pet. So cute! All of the kids and Ms. Yollis have been participating a great deal in posting comments back to family members responses.

The class has been able to talk with students around the United States. The class talked with another class in Georgia. The two classes Skyped and the class from Georgia asked them questions about their state. They also did a share and compare session. All the students in Mrs. Yolli’s class had tons of responses from the Skype call. Each student had learned something new. Mrs. Yollis and her class got a chance to go to Hawaii again! They Skyped wit hrs. Conley's class from the fiftieth state, Hawaii! The students dressed in Hawaiian attire for the call. Each class shared facts about California and Hawaii.

On the right side of the blog are tons of links to look and click on for more information. Some of the links give information such as:

Ms. Yollis’ class blog has over 214,000 total visitors.
They have over 72,000 visitors on the cluster map.
Over 52,000 were from the U.S. and they had the least amount of visitors from Singapore and Malaysia.

They won 1st runner up for best class blog for the 2009 and 2010 EDUBLOG Awards. They won the lifetime achievement award for the 2010 EDU blog Awards. They also have a joke for the day widget!

The class also posted a video saying happy birthday to blogging buddy from Australia!

Ms. Yollis’ class blog is amazing! I think more classrooms should have a class blog. I think parents would jump on the idea much faster if they could see the success in Ms.Yollis’s blog and the advantages of having one. I can’t wait to create my own class blog. Thanks so much Ms. Yollis!!