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Document Student Growth with Portfolios

Teacher Reboot Camp

The second part is to get students to benchmark and reflect at more regular intervals through student led conferences. To help you get started find a slide presentation , tips, web tools and resources below. The third part includes the final reflection. The time to implement digital portfolios is at the start of the course.

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6 Ways Technology Can Reinvent Parent-Teacher Conferences

Edsurge

We’re about a third of the way into the school year and we know what that means: The dread of parent teacher conferences! But conferences would not make it on my Top Ten Reasons I Like to Teach list. the traditional parent teacher conference as it once was is both redundant and outdated. Skype your conference.

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Seesaw: The ultimate ePortfolio for every classroom!

iLearn Technology

There is also an awesome flag feature that makes it easy to highlight work that you want to go back to for conferences or follow-up with the student. At Anastasis , even non-digital native assignments get captured in our eportfolio through the camera or video. Teachers can approve peer feedback before it is seen by students or parents.

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This Year be an EduHero!

Teacher Reboot Camp

If you choose to go on the EduHero Journey this year feel free to download any of these badges I made to go on your blog, eportfolio, or website : (Call to Adventure) Mission: Your mission this year is to join a League of EduHeroes and go on your EduHero Journey. Don’t worry your EduHero community will provide resources and support.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference. I helped start the conference with a half-day workshop on “How Technology Can Enhance Liberal Education: The State of the Art in 2016.”

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ScreenPal–Your New BFF! – SULS0189

Shake Up Learning

A few episodes back, in 186 , Susan Vincentz, shared her takeaways from the FETC conference. Think of how personal a video reminder for parent-teacher conferences could be, or a back-to-school welcome video. This is a great tool for teachers to communicate, leave feedback, record lessons, and more. Meet ScreenPal–Your New BFF!

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Three GREAT (and Free) Virtual Conferences Where You Can Attend, Present, or Volunteer!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We have three great world-wide virtual conferences coming up in the next few months. This conference has a short lead time (right around the corner!), The conference will also include an all-day virtual unconference (SocialEdCon online!) They are part of my Web 2.0 Learning 2.0 ( [link] ) August 20 - 24, 2012 Just announced!