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E portfolio Rubric. Portfolio Rubric. Portfolio Rubric. Assessing Student Progress Using Blog-Based Porfolios. Editor’s note: Kathy Cassidy is the author of a new book from Powerful Learning Press, Connected from the Start: Global Learning in the Primary Grades.

Assessing Student Progress Using Blog-Based Porfolios

During a recent webinar (free archive here), Kathy shared many ideas from Chapter 5 of the book, “Using Blogs as Digital Portfolios.” The webinar was rich in content and full of great discussion — so much so that there simply wasn’t time for Kathy to share her thoughts, in depth, about where formative and summative assessments might fit into this digital blog/portfolio model. So we’ve asked her to write this article. Much as she does in her eBook, she’s included short videos, useful downloads, and links to other valuable resources. ~ John Norton A Great Tool to Continuously Assess Progress by Kathy Cassidy In my classroom, each of my grade one and grade two students has their own blog. Formative Assessment I am continually doing formative assessment in my classroom — that is, assessment for learning. Verbal explanations. ConnectedNewsletter final. Sample Work - Catherine Fisher: Professional Teaching Portfolio.  Ms. Megan Carnaghi - Professional Teaching Portfolio - Home.

1st Grade with Ms. Leahy! - Home. Home. K 12 Digital Portfolio Programs for CCR in Project Share. Portfolios hold new promise for schools. The 3,000 students in rural Maine’s Regional School Unit 19 begin compiling electronic portfolios of their schoolwork in pre-K, when the district issues every child a Google account.

Portfolios hold new promise for schools

In the elementary years, teachers snap and upload digital photos of handwritten work. In the upper grades, students accustomed to electronically documenting their school lives habitually upload essays and lab reports and record video of their oral presentations. “By the time you hit middle school, the students are just doing it because that’s the way we do business,” says Kern Kelley, the Maine district’s technology integrator. Decades ago, portfolio assessment—using samples of classroom work to document students’ progress toward learning goals—meant finding room for bulging binders stuffed with paper. But digital technologies that make it far easier to collect, curate, share and store student work have dismantled the physical barriers that once made portfolio assessment daunting.

Every Student Should Have A Digital Portfolio. Every student should have a collection of personal bests–a cloud-based story of their development and artifacts of accomplishment that’s easily shareable in full or in part and organized for presentation.

Every Student Should Have A Digital Portfolio

At their most basic level portfolios can simply be a storage strategy. They can also be an active work, collaboration and reflection space including a blog and feedback from teachers and peers. Active use cultivates habits of lifelong learning by promoting reflection on what to learn and how to learn. 45 brilliant design portfolios to inspire you. The internet is full of thousands and thousands of awe-inspiring creative resumes and design portfolios.

45 brilliant design portfolios to inspire you

To stand out in this tough market, it's important to make your online portfolio as impressive as you can. It's not just the examples of work that need to blow away your potential clients (although they do help) it's the way they're presented. You don't have to be a superstar creative director or web designer; a touch of creativity and innovative thinking will get you a long way. And there are plenty of free online tools, such as Behance, to help you build a portfolio without any coding knowledge. So, check out these inspiring examples of online design portfolios, both for individual designers and design agencies – to help you angle your own in just the right way… 01.

Daniel Spatzek is freelance graphic designer and art director from Austria, and his site does a brilliant job of showing off both his design and web skills. 02. Have You Put Your Digital Portfolio to the Test? Posted by Sarah Whitman on Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 06:00 Want to win over prospective clients and employers?

Have You Put Your Digital Portfolio to the Test?

Make sure your digital portfolio shines by following these usability testing rules. Whether you’re actively seeking employment, searching for freelance gigs or just like to keep your career options open, you’ll need a digital portfolio to serve as your primary marketing piece. And just as you would test a website project before launching it, you should also proof your digital portfolio to make sure it’s easy to use and free of errors. Here, we’ve compiled a list of seven usability testing questions to help you create a polished digital portfolio that attracts attention for all the right reasons. 1.

User experience matters. 2. Digital + Creative Agency, Industry + Freelance Jobs in London. TREVOR MATTEA - Home. EPortfolio Rubric (Digital Portfolio Rubric) 11 Essentials for Excellent ePortfolios. According to the Office of Research Consumer Guide, portfolios are "a collection of student work representing a selection of performance.

11 Essentials for Excellent ePortfolios

" While artists have kept them for hundreds of years, portfolios emerged in modern education (PDF) from college writing courses in the 1980s. Electronic portfolios are online versions of this tool. If done well, portfolios can aid students in metacognition (PDF), reflection, and ownership of learning (PDF). If done poorly, students and teachers may feel like portfolios are a waste of time. While some see portfolios as excellent qualitative measures instead of standardized tests, we know that the subjective nature of portfolio assessment can make it an unreliable comparison between schools.

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