e-portfolios

student & professional so students can shareso you can share

student blogs Authentic audience – no longer working for a teacher who checks and evaluates work but a potential global audience. Suits more learning styles Increased motivation for writing – all students are happy to write and complete aspects of the post topic. Many will add to it in their own time Authentic audience learning styles motivation for writing

Increased motivation for reading – students will happily spend a lot of time browsing through fellow student posts Pride in their work – students want their blogs to look good in both terms of presentation and content. Blogs allow text, multimedia, widgets, audio and images – all items that digital natives want to use Increased motivation Pride in their work items that digital natives want

Increased proofreading and validation skills Improved awareness of possible dangers that may confront them in the real world Ability to share – part of the conceptual revolution that we are entering. They can share with each other, staff, their parents, the community, and the globe Improved awareness Ability to share Increased proofreading

Mutual learning between students and staff and students Parents with internet access can view their child’s work and writings – an important element in the parent partnership with the classroom Mutual learning parent partnership with the classroom

Blogs may be used for digital portfolios and all the benefits this entails Work is permanently stored, easily accessed and valuable comparisons can be made over time for assessment and evaluation purposes Students are digital natives - blogging is a natural element of this digital portfolios Work is permanently stored Assessment & evaluation purposes

Gives students a chance to show responsibility and trustworthiness, and engenders independence Prepares students for digital citizenship Fosters peer to peer mentoring. Students are happy to share, learn from and teach their peers Copied from On an e-journey with generation YOn an e-journey with generation Y peer to peer mentoring digital citizenship engenders independence

drawbacks

the thinker

an example

larry frolich

what’s in it for teachers

grading papers

so now you have a blog

what goes inside? biographical information (for students?) teaching philosophy resume courses and content and, it is easily updated

examples kinda tricky free

time to make a blog