5 Excellent Tools for Creating Academic Portfolios With the advent of technology and the uptake of web2.0 tools, portfolios migrated to the cloud making it dead easy for teachers and students to easily create and save their portfolios online. The good thing about digital portfolios is that they can be accessed anytime, anywhere and from any device with internet connection. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has already posted a detailed guide to everything teachers need to know about digital portfolios. Today, I am adding some web tools that are really wonderful for creating digital portfolios. Check them out below and let me know what you think. 1- Weebly This is a platform similar to Google Sites where you can easily build a classroom website for free. 2- Portfolio Gen Portfoliogen is a FREE online service for teachers to create their own customized portfolio webpage. This is an awesome tool that allows users to create academic portfolios. 5- Google Sites
Portfolio | Cégep Saint-Hyacinthe Dans de nombreux contextes de travail, les chercheurs d’emploi et de stage utilisent un portfolio, ou dossier de présentation, pour faire état de leurs capacités professionnelles. Lorsqu’il est question d’originalité, de créativité ou encore de polyvalence, rien n’est mieux qu’un portfolio pour rendre justice au potentiel, à l’évolution et au parcours d’un créateur. Celui-ci permet au candidat, lors de l’entrevue, de présenter une sélection de ses meilleurs travaux et d’expliquer le contexte dans lequel ils ont été réalisés. Le portfolio est idéal lorsqu’il vous faut présenter: des plans; des photographies; des esquisses; des montages infographiques; des illustrations; des articles publiés; etc. Pour constituer votre portfolio, vous devez d’abord préparer: Vous pouvez aussi inclure: des lettres de remerciements ou de félicitations; des articles publiés sur vous; des documents attestant que vous avez reçu des bourses ou des prix.
Jurgen Fauth: The Novelist's iPad: 10 Apps for Writers The iPad’s many uses include turntable, toddler flypaper, and bird catapult. But when you couple it with an external keyboard, it turns into a surprisingly versatile writing machine. Most writers are easily distracted; trying out just one more app often sounds better than slogging through your manuscript. To save you untold hours of procrastination, here’s my current setup of ten apps for writing, drafting, outlining, editing, and generating story ideas, divided into five essentials and five remarkable aids for inspiration and creativity. 1. It’s probably less popular as word processor. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. That’s it for me — which apps do you think no writer should be without? This Blogger’s Books and Other Items from...
Students Must Curate, Create a Portfolio | Luke Callahan Throughout the course of a typical academic career, hundreds of worthwhile projects are created. After countless hours and massive amounts of energy expended, where does a research paper on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War belong? What about the Rube Goldberg video a group of students collaborated on and shared via YouTube? If returned to the student in physical form, most projects hit the trash or are sent home to become a stack of papers in the basement. There is a simple solution, providing respect for work that will change the entire way academic growth is handled. Sadly, only a handful of my projects from high school and college made their way to a box in my garage, with very little, if anything, saved from my elementary years. On a larger scale, if we are to truly prepare 21st century students for their future and what awaits them in the work place, our past transgressions can’t affect what a student needs to succeed in the future. Who’s in charge of the portfolio?
Three Approaches for Getting Content to Elementary Students' iPads - No Email, No Problem This is a guest post from Beth Holland of EdTechTeacher.org From the beginning, a major challenge of working with iPads is actually working with iPads. Unlike a computer, there are no multi-user logins, no file structures, and no easy way to share these devices with multiple students. Additionally, in elementary classrooms the challenge becomes even more difficult. Here are three ways to approach distributing content to students without using email or having them log in and out of an account. Approach #1: Cloud Storage and ______ One of the most obvious answers to distributing content to students, is to leverage a cloud storage solution such as Drive, Dropbox, Box, or even Evernote. Use the App One option with elementary students is to create a single account with one of these services for all of the shared iPads. Add to Home Screen Any web site can essentially be "bookmarked" to the home screen of an iPad. Shortened URLs QR Codes Approach #2: Create a Landing Page Thinglink EdCanvas
15 Free Tools for Storing and Sharing Files Six months ago I shared a list of good file sharing tools for teachers and students. Since then, I've come across some more tools to add to that list. Here is my new list of file sharing tools for students and teachers. Using these tools can help you avoid having an email inbox that is overflowing with file attachments. The tools that I frequently use: I use Google Documents and Google Drive for nearly all of my document storage needs. The other tool that I frequently use for collecting, storing, and sharing files is Dropbox. DROPitTOme is a free service that works with Dropbox to allow people to upload files to your Dropbox account without giving them access to the contents of your Dropbox account. File Dropper is the file sharing tool that I have used longer than any of the tool on this list. Other file sharing tools that I have tried. File Stork is a tool that works with Dropbox and allows you to collect files in two ways. Go Pileus is a simple free service for quickly sharing files.
Workshop Activities for Technology Integration Hands-on lessons and activities you can adapt for discussion and exploration in your technology integration workshops. Now that you've established the basics of technology integration, you're ready to explore. On this page, you will find a wide range of activities that will get workshop participants thinking and talking about the best ways to integrate technology into everyday lessons: These activities are grouped by topic, grade level, and subject area so they can be easily incorporated into a workshop with varied participants. Activity One: Digital Storytelling The purpose of this activity is to give workshop participants a chance to experiment with various grade- and subject-appropriate digital tools that will enable their students to tell a story or relay ideas through multimedia. Back to Top Activity Two: Digital Citizenship The purpose of this activity is to have participants familiarize themselves with various grade-appropriate topics in digital citizenship.
Edina Tech Camp You are invited to participate in the 2012 Edina Tech Camp Below you will find over 35 classes either online or face to face to engage you in integrating technology into your classroom. $250 Stipend for Student Learning Experience If you choose to complete 9 hours of face to face training at tech camp or one of the online classes develop a student learning project to implement into your classroom and have a face to face meeting with your technology integration specialist you will earn a $250 stipend. In order to earn the stipend you need to... 2. 3. 4. *You may only earn one stipend per summer. Everyone is welcome to sign up for Tech Camp regardless of the stipend. Registration Process Online Courses run June 11th- August 1st August 13-16th *There is a "My Schedule" document attached at the bottom of the page for your planning and scheduling. Monday, August 13, 2012 Tuesday, August 14, 2012 Wednesday, August 15, 2012 Thursday, August 16, 2012 Also... These classes are free to Edina employees.
What should every teacher in the 21st century know and be able to do? What should every teacher in the 21st century know and be able to do? That’s an interesting question. The original blog post was written a year ago by Med Kharbach in Educators Technology and re-posted by Terry Heick, from TeachThought. 36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do: 1. Whether you choose a text message, email, social media message, Skype session, or a Google+ Hangouts depends on who you need to communicate with and why—purpose and audience. 2. Email won’t always work. 3. Hit the Print Screen button near your number pad on a keyboard on Windows. 4. Know what it means to be Rick Roll’d, the difference between a fail and an epic fail, why Steve is a scumbag, and who sad Keannu is. 5. Not everyone loves technology. An RT as an olive branch. 6. Terms of Use, copyrights, spam, phishing, age requirements–the whole ever-evolving and hopelessly complex shebang. 7. Tone is lost when you type. 8. This is dead-simple, but you never know. 9. 10. 11. Self explanatory, yes?
Learning Theories Every Teacher should Know about Have you ever asked yourself what learning theories you know about and which ones you feel more connected to and apply in your teaching ? Generally speaking, theories inform and guide practice in any content area and a learning theory is a set of concepts on how people learn. It is more or less an investigation of the strategies and the underlying cognitive processes involved in learning. The educational field abounds in learning theories to the extent that it becomes hard to draw clear boundaries between some of them. The graphic I have for you below provides a clear categorization of the learning theories you need to know as a teacher and educator. Check it out and as always share with us your feedback. courtesy of edudemic