Electronic Portfolios: Students, Teachers, and Life Long Learner

What's a digital or electronic portfolio? How can I develop a student or teacher portfolio? How can text, photos, diagrams, audio, video and other multimedia elements be integrated into a portfolio? Electronic Portfolios are a creative means of organizing, summarizing, and sharing artifacts, information, and ideas about teaching and/or learning, along with personal and professional growth. Read and watch Dr. Explore a couple examples: Teaching Portfolios - Carnegie Foundation - teaching examples Student Portfolios - Mt. Technology and Electronic Portfolios Traditionally, portfolios have been stored in boxes and three-ring binders. Electronic Portfolio Articles and Websites The following articles and links pages provide good background information for electronic portfolios. Professional Educator Portfolio Articles Electronic Portfolio Links Pages Sample Electronic Portfolios Explore examples of online portfolios. Software and Project-Specific Portfolio Examples Electronic Portfolio WebQuest

Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally, Andrew Churches 4/1/2008 By: Andrew Churches from Educators' eZine Introduction and Background: Bloom's Taxonomy In the 1950's Benjamin Bloom developed his taxonomy of cognitive objectives, Bloom's Taxonomy. This categorized and ordered thinking skills and objectives. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy In the 1990's, a former student of Bloom, Lorin Anderson, revised Bloom's Taxonomy and published this- Bloom's Revised Taxonomy in 2001.Key to this is the use of verbs rather than nouns for each of the categories and a rearrangement of the sequence within the taxonomy. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Sub Categories Each of the categories or taxonomic elements has a number of key verbs associated with it Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) The elements cover many of the activities and objectives but they do not address the new objectives presented by the emergence and integration of Information and Communication Technologies into the classroom and the lives of our students. Remembering Applying

Curriculum21 Concept to Classroom: Tapping into multiple intelligences - Expl How can applying M.I. theory help students learn better? Students begin to understand how they are intelligent. In Gardner's view, learning is both a social and psychological process. When students understand the balance of their own multiple intelligences they begin To manage their own learning To value their individual strengths Teachers understand how students are intelligent as well as how intelligent they are. Students approach understanding from different angles. Students that exhibit comprehension through rubrics5, portfolios6, or demonstrations come to have an authentic understanding of achievement. Students become balanced individuals who can function as members of their culture. Explanation | | | | © 2004 Educational Broadcasting Corporation.

Defining Differentiated Instruction Updated 01/2014 When I lesson plan with teachers, out of earshot from their fellow teachers and their principals, I can't tell you how often I'm asked, "what exactly does it look like?" when it comes to differentiated instruction. In the education world, differentiated instruction is talked a lot about as a policy or as a solution, but rarely do educators get opportunities to roll up their sleeves and talk about what it looks like in practice. The definition begins with this: Equal education is not all students getting the same, but all students getting what they need. Start with the Student If a child in your class is really struggling with reading, writing, organization, time management, social skills or all of the above, the first step is to find out as much as you can about her educational history and anything else. Several years ago, in one of the general education language arts class I was teaching, 8 of the 34 students enrolled had an Individualized Education Program (IEP).