You may or may not have used the available Plugins within your digital portfolio. You can revisit this tutorial for the Tiny MCE plugin or the Divi Builder Plugin. This post will explore Live Shortcodes (the bottom at the bottom of this post, as well as the divider above and below were both created with it!). For…
Category: Portfolios
Podcast as Portfolio Activity?
Can our portfolios promote better listening? Last week, I sat down with Jabiz, Melanie and Stuart to discuss the learning happening in the Daraja GC, IBDP Global Politics, and Sky School. The intention for this 30 minute discussion was to help make our potential connections a little more transparent. My covert agenda was to provide…
Publishing a buddy post in 45 minutes: A Tech Mentor How To
A few times a year, the HS Tech Mentor team get together. If you are wondering what those meetings look like, well, from my perspective they look like any conversation you’d see in any coffee house around the world. The unsung hero of teacher toolkits everywhere is our ability to make time and space to…
Start your new year with a new challenge…
Rope Climbing, Santa Monica flickr photo by Boss Tweed shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license A new year brings an educator fresh opportunities. If you have a blog that’s been gathering dust, or you feel intrigued by the idea of starting one, this post is for you. Join over twenty teachers across seven countries…
Development week: Round up
Interested in what else was happening during Development Week? Middle leaders spent 90 minutes exploring portfolios. We imagined what our portfolios could be four years from now. As a provocation, we listened to one current university student reflect on her High School blogging experience: This student has continued to use a portfolio as a…
The Networked Teacher-Learner
What could your portfolio do for your learning? Starting this May, join a cohort of teachers on campus looking to complete a five-month challenge. The challenge will ask you to launch and share a portfolio (with the support of your DLCs), and to compose and share one post per month from May until September. In…
Digital Bytes 4th May 2015
Happy Star Wars Day! For this week’s Digital Bytes, we feature Essentials for ePortfolios, an article from Scholastic on Twitter for Teachers, and 10 Techie Things to Try for those looking for a bit of inspiration. Enjoy!
Digital Portfolios – Organising your Google Drive Folders
At UWCSEA East, we are using Digital Portfolios for Grades 3-5. These take the form of Google Sites. One technique we are using is embedding Google Drive folders in their sites, so content can be populated automatically. Students already have folders set up in their Google Drive (via Hapara, or Teacher Dashboard), so the following…
Digital Portfolios using Google Sites
Grade 3, 4 and 5 students in our school are using Google Sites for their digital portfolios this year. One of the ways we can support them is through short video tutorials that break down some of the aspects involved in creating a site. The tutorials have been uploaded to Vimeo and put into an album….