Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge

Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge

Digital Portfolios & Assessment

Welcome & Warming-up Digital Activity

Sign in here please! Remember to the tab for November 18th!

Review of October PD




Collaborate about "Creativity in the Classroom" with Wordle.com

"Pitch your Project" ... Using Google Docs

Digital Tools for Digital Portfolios with Dr. Helen Barrett

What is a Digital Portfolio?

What is the purpose of Digital Portfolios?

Portfolio Key Components

• Collection
• Selection
• Reflection
• Projecting
• Celebration

Digital Portfolios Enhance Key Components

• Archiving
• Linking
• Storytelling
• Collaborating
• Publishing

Digital Portfolio Tools

• Nings
• NYCiBlog
• Wikis
• Google Resources
• EPals Learning Space

Skyped Showcase of ePal's Learningspace.epals.com

Should your digital portfolio space by public or private?

Lunch

Are your students technology literate? Assess with Learning.com

Digital Portfolio Assessment Tools

• Share assessment strategies & tools
• Collectively share rubric builder websites and/or assessment tool
• Post resources to ict-opal.ning.com

"Visions of Today's Students"



Ten Tips
Creating an Electronic Portfolio

• State and explain the specific standards and the subparts of each standard that will be evaluated in the e-portfolio.
• Tell how the e-portfolio will be assessed and by whom.
• Share the assessment rubric with students and let them know whether the teacher, a team, or a group of experts will assess the e-portfolio.
• Model several e-portfolios for the students so they understand the e-portfolio's purpose and general format.
• Provide a detailed e-portfolio template for the students so they understand what is required for each part of the e-portfolio.
• Label each class assignment, homework assignment, and project with the appropriate standard; therefore, the students can quickly identify all of the possible artifacts for a particular standard.
• Provide network and other storage for the students' digital artifacts to facilitate frequent archiving.
• Model how to select an artifact for the e-portfolio based on how well the artifact reflects the standard.
• Model a reflection on a standard so that students show their growth in the standard.
• Include regularly scheduled e-portfolio days in which the students archive artifacts, decide which artifacts best support the standards, assemble their e-portfolios, write their reflections, and, possibly, present it. Some teachers schedule e-portfolio days every 5 weeks, and others do it every 10 weeks.
• Have an e-portfolio review and provide each student with an assessment of the e-portfolio.
  
  

ICT ... Information, Communication, Technology

Project ICT: A Global Learning Initiative

Profession Development -- Project Planning w/Resources

Agenda

What aspect of environmental studies will your students be implementing? Please reply to this post in detail. This will enable you to clarify your plans, and to share ideas with your colleagues. Also, once this is done, planning will be minimal. Items to include are:

• What is the overarching question the entire class will addressing? (For example: Causes and Effect of Climate Change)
• What sub-topics and questions will groups of students be addressing? (For example: 4 groups of students will study and present their findings in podcasts about: causes of climate change; effects of climate change; impact of climate change in the USA; impact of climate change worldwide)
• Consider with whom and how you would like to collaborate
• Where will they get the information they need to do their projects?
• How will you present the project to your students?
• How will you assess your students new knowledge, as well as their presentation? (i.e., rubistar)

Once your project plans are complete, please begin to populate your uniservity page with resources for your students. I will post a "how-to" shortly on this topic. However, if you get stuck with uniservity, just post the resources to your nyciblog.com for today. (If you don't have an nyciblog, there is a jing below about how to create one. It should take you 5 minutes.) We can always move them over. Use NETTREKKER (dlewis220 & dlewis220), WORLDBOOK & UNITED STREAMING (passcode: 2A6E - 7BFC) resources.

If you have difficulty posting resources to the CLC, put them on your nyciblog.com for today. They can be move to the CLC at another time.

Summary:

• What projects will students be conducting?
• What products will students produce?
• What resources (websites, videos, reference, podcasts, etc) will be provided for students so they can access the information they need to do the project?
• With whom and how will students collaborate?
• How will you assess your students' new knowledge?

Post your Uniservity Questions HERE

We'll skype with Phil this morning to get the kinks out.

DID I MISS ANYONE?

If you know of colleagues who were not invited to view this blog, please e-mail me. I think I got everyone, but probably not! Thanks