Is it right that your mother, your sister… should be classed with criminals and lunatics… ? Is it right that while the loafer, the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?… Is it right… that a mother… should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?
Way back in the a by-gone again, maybe a year or two ago Portfolios of student work were kept in plastic pocket document folders and were flipped through during parent/Teacher interview.
Now that we have entered the digital age what are our portfolios supposed to look like?
Is it really students work photographed and stored on the school server, to be viewed during parent/ Teacher conference?
Is to be CD collection of student work gathered together within folders for parental perusal at the end of the year?
Is it to be carefully crafted DVD filled with ‘digital stories’ of ‘my learning journey’?
Is it a blog? A wiki? A website? Should it completely open to the world?
Is it to be a portal, with everything locked safely behind logins and passwords?
But what about you? In New Zealand? From somewhere else?
What are features that you’re looking for in an e-portfolio?
Please share with me. I genuinely want to know.
I have just run my first training session on Podcasting through Skype.
It worked really well having two people at the other end of the call. My Skype connection came through one computer and they worked off the other. Therefore if we were jumping from website to website. It did not stuff up the Skype call.
It certainly is a powerful tool. If you would like to recieve PD through Skype just let me know.
Today’s workshop was about Podcasting. How do you? Why do you?
KPE is held up as a shining example of Students’ Podcasting.
I thought I’d share my list of Podcasts that I listen to:
Well, I managed to survive my first encounter with the new entrants – In actual fact they were more 6 year olds than 5 year olds. I had 13 in my sole charge for 45 minutes… none of them died, and none of them wet themselves.
I was rather pleased be teaching in an iwb rich classroom and we accessed some of the BBC stories – captured some picture from them along the way and put the stories into our own words. One sentence at a time. (on senc a a tim – as they would write)
All in all I loved it. Next week I’ll be taking them for fitness for 20 minutes as well as the 45 minutes I did today. I have a very patient colleague I’m working with who is letting me down gently.
Where the Sitech sales meeting was this week, Turangi, was the National Trout Centre . This centre offers a wide variety of opportunities for schools to engage in and learn about sustainability. There are a variety of formats and presentations designed for the whole age range. The link to the centres website is here. And I want to encourage you all to go take a look and see if they have something on offer for you and your students.For more information about school visits here or ask Mike at mnicholson@doc.govt.nz
Is it right that your mother, your sister… should be classed with criminals and lunatics… ? Is it right that while the loafer, the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?… Is it right… that a mother… should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?
Well, I managed to survive my first encounter with the new entrants – In actual fact they were more 6 year olds than 5 year olds. I had 13 in my sole charge for 45 minutes… none of them died, and none of them wet themselves.
