Portfoliogen is a great service for teachers. It is a free online tool that allows teachers to create their own customized portfolio webpage. This means that you have a user friendly platform designed specifically to host and organize all your materials into one place. You can also share your portfolio with your colleagues and peers using the generated URL.
(lif)e-portfolio, a photo by leedballantyne on Flickr. I finally finished my research study. This is a summary of the outcomes: a framework for e-portfolio implementation. Full pdf paper here: http://t.co/OFIoJPz9
Journal writing is a learning tool based on the ideas that students write to learn. Students use the journals to write about topics of personal interest, to note their observations, to imagine, to wonder and to connect new information with things they already know.
This is a good resource from Saskatoon Public Schools
All other things equal (given a limited amount of time), teachers can provide more and better corrective feedback on student oral proficiency recordings if, during their grading, they could easily …
Comment: There is nothing particularly special about this eportfolio except that it was made using Wix. People often use blogs and wikis well this one has the potential to be quite flashy with it’s use of flash!
Standardized tests are not what’s best for learning.
Not only are they not best for learning, but they have become an insurmountable obstacle for innovative educators like me to do my work in schools because helping kids become good and filling in bubbles on a piece of paper is anything but innovative!
Unfortunately, many politicians, parents, and even students don’t know a world without testing and wonder…