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How One High School is Helping Students Craft Eportfolios People Will Actually Read

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A significant number of K-12 teachers looking to move away from student success measures that focus on standardized testing and grades are turning towards eportfolios, online websites showcasing projects tied to learning objectives. In the end, her students were working on what many would describe as an eportfolio and blog hybrid.

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3 Ways Educators Should Use Blogs

Gaggle Speaks

ePortfolios. Try using a blog as an ePortfolio where students can store and track their assignments. The great thing about using a blog as an ePortfolio is that students will always have access to it even after they’ve completed your course. As educators, you often need to assess growth in a student’s knowledge over time.

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5 Ways Office 365 Can Benefit Student Learning

Gaggle Speaks

Office 365 broadens the capacity for learning, offering on-demand access to documents and projects, and provides students new and creative outlets to learn both inside and outside of the classroom. There’s just no way to get around assigning group projects because teamwork and collaboration are required student skills.

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A Project Share Story: Ensuring a Successful Implementation #SXSWedu

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Irving is a large district with 35,000 students, so they wanted to find a small group for piloting. They decided to start with T3 grant participants, instructional technology specialists, and high school math teachers who needed access for training materials. Irving wanted to use ePortfolios with their students. Who will pilot?

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5 Tips for Using Google Apps to Go Paperless

Gaggle Speaks

better student access to learning materials. Create Groups by breaking down a class into smaller groups based on specific needs of students. A teacher can then respond to that Group with everyone getting the same level of information. Sites can also be a great place to manage student ePortfolios.

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4 Amazing Google Tools to Help You Engage Your Students

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Only the student’s work will end up on the Drawing itself, and this means that if the student embeds or downloads this Drawing to use somewhere like an eportfolio, etc., See how this lengthy slideshow is organized with a Table of Contents, giving the audience a chance to choose how they access the content. Interactive Tip #2: Add-Ons.

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Make Reading Relevant with Thematic Units

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The biggest limitation for younger students is finding materials written at an accessible reading level, but this can be overcome by focusing more on videos and finding books with a “read to me” feature. Students can independently access the necessary materials at any time during the unit.