Educating the Dragon

I completed my first staff meeting on Edukite today. The whole school are very enthusiastic about the Eportfolio system and communicating with parents. I wish I could let you all have a look around but these things are all neatly tucked inside a portal.

Below is a screen shot of the staff notices page. Not really a huge amount to look at but we’re all just making a start.

By way of background:

EduKite gives students at your school or kindergarten their own portfolio website, or ‘kite’. This simple idea brings simplicity, usability and fun to e-learning. Kites combine online communication, activity management and e-portfolios together in a simple and easy to use way. Kites offer students the opportunity to display notices, activities, projects, wiki threads, events, and most importantly, e-portfolio items. EduKite is a complete e-learning framework.

Kites are the basis of a learning and communication framework that will engage your entire school community, and this is where EduKite shines. All three participant groups (children, parents and educators) are able to become involved through the simplicity the system offers.

EduKite uses the same simple process to create a notice, build activities and portfolios, and even to administer the system. Previously difficult e-learning functions are now as simple as posting a notice – you need only follow the same process. The result is a system that allows teachers to use the entire application with little training, allowing more time to be spent educating. Teachers who have no previous experience with e-learning are soon hosting wikis, assessing work and managing e-portfolios online. All this is made possible through the advanced simplicity of the EduKite system design.

Kites empower teachers to deliver quality e-learning in a process that is simple and uncomplicated. Parents can visit their child’s kite to see homework tasks, to check on the latest school news and to browse through the portfolio. Meanwhile, children respond to projects and collaborate via an activities-based wiki. EduKite is a fully functioning e-learning system that everyone can master and enjoy.

Edukite has an advanced e-portfolio process built into its DNA. The system encourages children to develop a history of their achievements, which they can look back upon. Children and parents can upload multimedia and artwork into their kites where they will be archived for safe keeping and reflection. Teachers can convert almost any content item into a portfolio item, allowing straightforward record keeping.

“We are loving edukite this year. Our K-2 Dept put weekly spelling results

on and the kindys have uploaded photos and short movies -

very positive parent response and 100% usage in my class!”

Amanda Drain – Loquat Valley Anglican School

EduKite LMS

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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?

David Warlick has defined what he thinks .

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.