Standards+Based+Blogging+Portfolios

Michelle Krill – Standards Based Blogging Portfolios Naming convention: first name, middle initial, last initial, 2 digit date from birth (i.e. brookerm15), lunch number is password until middle school South western has google apps, wiki private label, starts keyboarding program in 3rd grade (2nd half of the year) Cart of 25 netbooks for 3rd grade Libarian is teaching how to be safe online [] What words do you associate with…….assessment, writing, learning Blogging portfolios as an assessment of learning · Keep from grade level to grade level · Way to document learning as they grow – instead of waiting for teachers to make corrections and return paper to make final copy (where does that final copy go?) · Helen Barrett – e-portfolios o Documentation of learning (more of an assessment) o Documentation of achievement o Can incorporate hyperlinks · Not a replacement for the paper binder – Professional growth opportunity in South Western – participate in a book study (Curriculum 21) · Chapter 9 incorporates information about e-portfolios · Used a blog (Wordpress) to have the teachers respond to Curriculum 21 · Each student has own individual blog · Each student had to make the teacher as an admin · Encouraged individuality – each student picked own theme for page · Tag each blog post with a standards o Showed them PDE SAS site · They need to approve comments on their own pages Transliteracy – transliteracy.om  Can a blog serve as a literature circle? Expand the audience – Comments4kids.blogspot.com *Has RSS feed organized on wiki so you can always see the latest posts *Kidblog.org – don’t need email address (no ads) Edublogs might have ads with the kid blogs Richer picture – not free – offers digital portfolio software AL103230