e-portfolios

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Permalink Reply by Miriam Bogler on July 12, 2010 at 10:50am

I have used Google Apps and created a web site for the school, including a 'Projects' section where their projects are listed. I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but take a look: http://www.balboamagnet.com/projects

Permalink Reply by Saritza Concepcion on July 24, 2010 at 10:42am

Miriam, I think the website with student projects is great! Did the students used google docs for the presentations?

Permalink Reply by Miriam Bogler on July 28, 2010 at 10:03pm

Our school signed up for Google Apps and we were granted accounts for each student from 3rd through 5th grade. Students were using Google Docs and Sites, as well as Maps, Earth, and even other web-based applications, such as DoInk (an art and animation application). A good example of all this can be seen in this site, created by the 5th grade students.

Permalink Reply by Lauraw on July 26, 2010 at 5:22pm

Hi Lori,
I am actually in a similar situation to you. I have just finished my teaching degree by correspondence but shall not be teaching till after our two children are a bit older (3 1/2 and due in October). I too am taking this opportunity to continue learning, particularly in the area of technology integration, before I start working. Having the tutoring students to work with must be great although I'm sure 27 students are pretty hard work too. I hope you don't mind me asking about it but I would love to do some tutoring also;
- What exactly do you tutor them in?
- Are they elementary students or middle school?
- How did you get into the work?

Any advice here would be greatly appreciated :)

Back to your questions though... during one of my school practicums I was greatly privileged to do a podcasting project with a year 2 class. I have written a little more about it here: (http://mrslaurawright.blogspot.com/2010/07/podcasting-with-year-2.html). It was such a wonderful experience and the tutoring setting would lend itself perfectly to doing something similar - great opportunity to practice. Having the students work on their own e-portfolio is such a wonderful project - do they get many comments about their work? This reflective aspect of writing on blogs is one of its most powerful attributes. What I also love about blogs is that you can directly write into blog or other content, created on other websites, can be embedded into a post. I have a short list of some excellent web 2.0 tools you and your students may be able to use: (http://mrslaurawright.blogspot.com/p/web-20-links.html). I'd suggest you look at Prezi and Wix first - they will allow your students to create media rich content which can then be embedded into their blog. For publishing any print material online I would suggest you either scan it or take a photo of it, create a PDF book of the work and then upload it to Issuu. This website then turns any PDF into a page-flipping book that can be embedded into a blog post. I used it in my podcasting post.

I am going to be writing more about e-portfolios and web 2.0 tools for elementary grades, gathering resources form other sites, so if anything above has been helpful you might want to check back with the blog in a week or so.

Regards,
Laura