Digital Portfolios in the Primary Classroom with @kathycassidy. Posted on Nov 25, 2013 at 6:52 pm · by EduSlam 4 Kathy Cassidy has been a pioneer leading the way with student digital portfolios.
In this episode, she discusses how she gets her grade one students to create digital portfolios using edublogs. This practical EduSlam will help you get started on using Student Digital Portfolios with your students! Kathy Cassidy’s Bio: Elementary teacher in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, blogging with her students since 2005 Apple Distinguished Educator (2013) Published Author: Connected From the Start: Global Learning in the Primary Grades was published in 2013. Winner of: The Canadian Innovative Teacher Award from Microsoft, the Canadian Regional Award for Reading and Technology from the International Reading Association, the Kay L.
Kathy Cassidy is a grade one teacher for Prairie South Schools in Moose Jaw, SK, Canada. Differentiated Instructional Strategies. TeachThought - Learn better. Three Tips for Structuring Classroom Blogging Projects. Posted by Bill Ferriter on Tuesday, 09/17/2013 In preparation for three different Teaching the iGeneration workshops I'll be delivering in October, I'm pulling together a ton of content for structuring classroom blogging projects.
I thought Radical Nation might benefit from some of the content, too. Updated - 86 Page Guide to Using Blogger in School. Pages Tuesday, August 27, 2013 Updated - 86 Page Guide to Using Blogger in School Last week I published a free PDF, A Complete Guide to Using Blogger In School.
Today, I added a new section to the end of it. The new section includes directions for using the Blogger iPad app. A Must-Have Guide To Becoming A Better Blogger. - So...You Wanna Use Blogs In The Classroom. Blogging is an important part of who I am as a professional.
I can use this space to share resources with you, reflect on my own practice and try to figure out how to be a better educator. It is my public reflection on technology, leadership and learning. So...You Wanna Use Blogs In The Classroom. Blogging is an important part of who I am as a professional.
I can use this space to share resources with you, reflect on my own practice and try to figure out how to be a better educator. It is my public reflection on technology, leadership and learning. Think about when you were in school. You write an essay. Who read it? Fix-It in Five. When I first started student blogs, I assumed students would enjoy it.
After all, we were using technology! It was, at the time, a cutting-edge tool! Unfortunately, I didn’t think ahead of time about the power of blogging as authentic, interactive form of expression. Instead, students wrote posts in isolation. I dicated the topics. In short, they weren’t student blogs at all. Student autonomy. Looking for More? If you enjoyed this post, check out this free resource Student Blogging: Rubric, Self-Assessment, and Checklist If you want to see more posts about student blogging and digital writing, check out this page for other posts and resources.If you enjoy this blog, please subscribe via email and receive each post in your inbox, along with one free resource a week.If you're interested in workshops or sessions on digital writing and student blogging, I'm available to consult with schools, districts and organizations. Mr. Salsich's Class - “Take Me Out to The Ballgame” – a guest post about baseball by Brendan. Hi!
My name is Brendan and I play Baseball. Baseball is an American sport involving lots of physical requirements like being able to run fast, swing heavy bats, and have good arm strength to be able to throw across the baseball field. The field you play on in baseball is called the baseball diamond and in the baseball diamond there’s an infield and an outfield. The outfield has three defensive positions called outfielders. The infield has six defensive positions. Four Good Ways to Use Media In Your Classroom Blog. Watching videos and commenting on them or looking at a picture and commenting on it are the most common ways that teachers have students use media in blog posts.
There is definitely value in those activities as they do get students to think, write, and share. These are some other ways to think about using media in your classroom blog. SoundCloud is a great tool for creating short audio recordings. Those recordings can be embedded into blog posts. The feature of SoundCloud that makes it worth using instead of just embedding a recording from another service is that listeners can tie their comments to an exact moment in a SoundCloud recording. ThingLink is a free tool for creating interactive images. VoiceThread and Narrable provide platforms for uploading images and hosting discussions around them. Ms. Lirenman's Class 2012-2013. A Simple Yet Powerful Student Blogging Activity. One of the questions that often comes up in my workshops about blogging is, "what should I have the students write about?
" There are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of possible answers to this question. #Blogging #Presentation #Portfolio. Blogging in a Primary Classroom. 6 positive effects of blogging in kindergarten SmartBlogs. As a kindergarten teacher, I have a unique opportunity to educate, share, engage, enhance and model ways that a variety of technological tools can help my students, their families and others make connections globally in regards to learning.
A Short Guide to Terms Commonly Used in Blogging. I'm currently in the process of developing new digital handouts for my blogging workshops. One of the items that I'm adding to my handouts is a list of terminology and definitions for terms that I frequently use while talking about building blogs. My preliminary list is posted below.
Are there terms that you think should be added to the list? Theme: WordPress and many other blogging platforms use “themes” to describe the look of a blog. The theme can include the color scheme and the layout of elements on the blog. Template: Blogger and some other blogging platforms use the term “template” to describe the look of a blog. Tag: Tags are applied to WordPress (Kidblog, Edublogs) blog posts to identify the key ideas or purpose of a post. Mrs. Yollis' Classroom Blog. A Guide to Involving Parents in Your Class Blog. This is an update of some of the posts I’ve written in the past about getting parents involved in blogging. About parents and blogs One of the many benefits of having a class blog is the strengthening of home-school relationships.
The ultimate guide to getting started with blogging! -Edublogs. In case you missed it, we just wrapped up our first Teacher Challenge series – 30 days to kick start your blogging! Hundreds of educators from around the globe participated in 8 challenges over the course of four weeks. Together with mentors, bloggers of all experience levels had the opportunity to really step up their game. And if you missed out, it is never too late to work through the challenges at your own pace! Here are the beginner and advanced challenges in their entirety: Activity 1 – Getting StartedBeginner – Advanced – Discussion Question.
Student-Led Parent Conferences: How They Work in My Primary Classroom. “Tell us what you think you did well in your writing?” “I put spaces between the words…and I sounded them out. I spelled my right.” “What else did you do well?” “I put a capital letter at the beginning.” “What could you do to make your writing better?” “I could put a dot at the end. “Yes, you could use a period at the end. “Three.” I love my blog. Why My Six-Year-Old Students Have Digital Portfolios - Getting Smart by Guest Author - edchat, edreform, EdTech. By Kathy Cassidy From the first week of school, the six-year-olds in my classroom begin to create an online presence in the form of a blog and digital portfolio. We use a blogging platform to do this, and include artifacts that show their progress in writing, reading, math, social studies, and science.
I am frequently asked why I do this. Even more frequently, I can see in a colleague’s eyes that they are thinking “why,” even if they don’t verbalize their question. The way that those educators have always done portfolios has worked well for them. Portfolios and Blogs Present an Audience & Feedback For any writer or creator, it is all about the audience.
Because a blog allows comments, the students’ thoughts and learning can be not only read, but responded to as well. YouTube. Mrs. Cassidy's Class. The Research Center. I have always had some form of form of research in my classroom but a few years ago a changed happened that made the center something special. The improvement can be blamed on our class Twitter account. Yes, tweeting is what makes the research center so powerful in my room. It was nothing I planned and really just evolved on its own. How To Choose The Right Platform For Your Class Blog. Blogging and online content creation has changed a lot over the years. Going from nerdy venting to something that nearly every major company and institution does. How To Integrate Blogging Into Math Classes. How (And Why) Teachers Should Blog.