The Power of Plugins!

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…

Maths+Portfolios=?

Looking for ways to authentically integrate portfolios into the Maths classroom? Living and learning in a world where now, more than ever before we use data to tell stories, this post is an incredibly insightful example of the nuances of ‘lines.’ Yes, ‘lines.’ If you think there’s no nuance to be had…I think you will…

New Book Alert!

What would I consider evidence of my own professional learning?….How does reflection and sharing of learning evidence contribute to amplifying and learning growth for myself, my students, and others? (58-59 A Guide to Documenting Learning: Making Thinking Visible, Meaningful, Shareable, and Amplified by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano and Janet Hale   Meet Silvia: Why you want to get your…

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…

Getting our Thinking out there on the E-table

To paraphrase what philosopher Edmund Burke once said, learning without reflection is like eating without digestion. In either case you can feed as much as you want to a person but that person won’t leave nourished; it might be as though they haven’t eaten at all. With reflection, on the other hand, critical faculties become…

Capturing the process.

In my classroom – a predominantly blogging classroom – things have to be different. I believe that it is my role as an educator to ensure that my students are given opportunities to grow as individuals, and are not treated as mere pupils who passively receive information. As a result, the traditional approach to teaching…

Basic WordPress Bootcamp

IMG_0451 flickr photo by paulwan8 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license Can I launch my first post in 30 minutes or less? YES. These are the basic skills you need to get your site up and running. The complete playlist of The Press and the Curious is here–we welcome requests for tutorials, please leave…