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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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With Instagram and ePortfolios, This Teaching Fellow Uses Tech to Support Literacy ?

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A passionate millennial blogger, she had, among her many forays into tech, started a classroom blog that had inspired other teachers and earned her kudos in her district. Student blog excerpt. Edublogs-Student Blogging Challenge to start students blogging. My own blog , with additional resources. Reading Resources.

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3 Ways Educators Should Use Blogs

Gaggle Speaks

Blogs are a great resource for educators at all levels. Here are three ways educators can use blogs to encourage creativity, learning and collaboration. Student Blogs. And student blogs are very similar except they happen online and can potentially have a much larger audience. ePortfolios. Classroom Blogs.

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4 Powerful Ways to Implement Class Blogs – From Jennifer Carey

EdTechTeacher

Blogging is a popular activity in classrooms today because it allows students to share their writing with a broader audience and teachers to communicate with parents. How to set up a blog will depend on your platform, and is pretty easy to figure out with all of the “how-to” videos and help center collections. Blogs as ePortfolio.

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Student Portfolios, Diigo and Blogs

wwwatanabe

I''ve had several people ask me about how to start blogs and portfolios with their students next year, and what''s the best approach. I appreciate Implementing ePortfolios? Blogging with Students The other route I''d use for portfolios is blogging. From here, students can share and reflect from within the blog.

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A Project Share Story: Ensuring a Successful Implementation #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

Irving is a large district with 35,000 students, so they wanted to find a small group for piloting. Irving wanted to use ePortfolios with their students. Who can access ePortfolios? Will students blog? By default they do not have rights to blogging features. By default they do not have rights to blogging features.

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Authentic Assessments to Support Teaching and Learning

edWeb.net

For example, students can use a blogging tool to post summer book reviews for students, and the librarian can mediate a conversation around their reading and writing. Another group of teens generated a teen suicide outreach app to make it easier to call for help in times of distress. and Canada. Join the Community.