I reviewed the blog "Lisa Nielsen: The Innovation Educator" and for the most part I thought it was a fantastic blog! There were so many features that I absolutely loved about it. One fantastic part was the "you may also like" link section. Her blog has hundreds of posts on it, which is great. but filtering through all of that is a little much and time consuming. With this feature it helps narrow it down. You

may read an article about a topic you're interested in and find the next topic right there in the row without even having to search for it. This also opens the possibility to new topics. When searching the website you can tend to narrow your search by using key words, where this may be able to suggest an article that is relevant but beyond what you put in the search bar.
     Another feature I found fantastic was the "Categories" section. It's just a sidebar feature that categorizes all of the different issues from homeschooling to ADD to facebook in the classrooms. I think this tool in incredibly effective because you can go into the blog not even knowing what to look

for and come out learning something. If you look in the image to the right, you can see all the different categories available. It covers many different issues we see in different classrooms. Especially for new teachers, or teachers new to technology this is helpful since they might not know where to start, and this offers some guidance.
     One thing I noticed was some of the topics have very strong opinions leaning one way. For example, in the SmartBoards category, her posts and her guest posts seem very, very against SmartBoards. They did not have very good things to say about this form of technology. I know this is a blog of personal opinions and experience, but I think part of being a teacher is making the best of what you have and excelling from that. In some districts they don't have access to much technology and would glad to have a SmartBoard. It just seemed a little intense to rule them out if the point of the blog is to help teachers in the classroom. It didn't happen a lot in the blog and most of the information was very good, but I did notice some negative posts.