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How to Create a Portfolio with Evernote (Education Series)

How to Create a Portfolio with Evernote (Education Series)
Bio Rob is a teacher at Trillium Charter School in Portland, where he primarily instructs students aged 8-11. He has been working to develop online portfolios with students for the past six years and has taught in private schools, traditional public schools and public charter schools for the past 15 years. I use Evernote, Everywhere: iPhoneiPod TouchiPadMacWindows E-Portfolios: a student’s project warehouse and progress tracker I started teaching 15 years ago and that is when I first came across this concept of a ‘portfolio.’ Initially, I had my students create paper portfolios. We had a bin where we’d put these documents and at the end of the year, they’d have 10-20 pieces that they’d take with them into the next school year. After spending years with paper portfolios, I’ve transitioned this concept into digital form, and have started to implement Evernote as the primarily system for creating portfolios in my classroom. Evernote as an portfolio system Parent/Teacher conferences and Evernote

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Emailing Into Evernote Just Got Better Posted by Andrew Sinkov on 16 Mar 2010 Comment One of the many ways to get stuff into your Evernote account is by sending notes to your personal Evernote email address. Today, we launched a big improvement to this functionality that lets you specify the destination Notebook and assign Tags to your emailed notes. How it works REAL ePortfolio Academy It has become apparent that there is a need for multiple courses, meant to answer three questions about Electronic Portfolios in K-12 Schools: What? (Definition, Description, Examples) Why? (Purpose, Benefits, Philosophy) How?

Scrapbook is not a verb: How to Use Evernote for Student Portfolios « Miss Night's Marbles So, the thing is… this is NOT a “how-to” blog. I’ve never really been comfortable with the idea of using my blog to explain my tools, tips, routines, rituals, in great detail. It always somehow feels like bragging. All Things Google: Using Google for Writing Portfolios Since ProfHacker launched, we’ve written a lot about Google Documents. George, for instance, has written about using it for collaborative work, and we’ve also run posts on using the tool in writing classes, both for work in general and for peer review in particular. For a few years now, I’ve been asking the students in the writing course I teach each fall to do their writing in Google Docs. (Yes, I teach writing, even though I’m in the Political Science department.

For Schools Site: Resource for Using Evernote in Education Posted by Ron Toledo on 14 Feb 2012 Comment As more teachers and students adopt new technologies, including Evernote, they’re looking for useful resources to help them along the way. We’re excited to introduce them to Evernote for Schools, our new microsite devoted to helping those in the education community use Evernote more effectively. Evernote Encourages a Lifetime of Learning 12 Important Trends in the ePortfolio Industry for Education and for Learning ePortfolio Vendors Comment on Their Market: Summary of Interview Findings Extensive interviews with 14 ePortfolio vendors revealed key directions and interesting developments in that industry. Below are the 12 most notable findings.

Dropr - Create Multimedia Portfolios Dropr is a free service for creating portfolios of your images, videos, and audio files. Within your Dropr account you can have multiple portfolio pages. If you wanted to have a page for images that you took in the fall and a page for images that you took in the spring, you can do that in Dropr. Salt Lake Community College - It is now a requirement in all General Education courses for students to create an ePortfolio that contains their significant assignments and reflections about those assignments. The ePortfolio also allows students to document their goals and extra-curricular activities as well as to post their resume. Salt Lake Community College's ePortfolio initiative is a great way for students to make sense of General Education and share their learning experiences with friends, family, and scholarship committees. Faculty are also going to want to see your ePortfolio before they write a letter of recommendation for you. As you can see from our navigation pane on the left, we have information about the ePortfolio initiative tailored for students and faculty. ePortfolio Introductory Videos!

How Things Changed With @Evernote I'll admit it. I have to be one of the most unorganized people on the planet. I have notebooks in just about every bag I carry. E-Portfolios: Go Big or Go Home Darren Cambridge (dcambridge@air.org) is Senior Consultant, Education Technology and Online Communities of Practice, at the American Institutes for Research, is Co-Director of the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research, and is winner of the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Faculty Prize. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page. As recently as five years ago, many of the CIOs and directors of academic technology with whom I spoke saw e-portfolio implementation as a significant challenge.

Student Digital Portfolios: Redefining Assessment with iPads & Google Apps The first session of day two that I am attending is “Student Digital Portfolios: Redefining Assessment with iPads and Google Apps” by Holly Clark. You can view the slides from her presentation here. Holly highlights the fact that we have to think forward and progressively, “Are you Blockbuster or are you Netflix?” ePortfolios with GoogleApps 2 This Google Site has been set up by Dr. Helen Barrett to focus on the use of Google Apps to create ePortfolios. On this site, there are instructions on how to use the different elements of Google Apps to maintain e-portfolios. Are you a K-12 educator wanting to use Google products with your students? I recommend that you don't set up "regular" public Google accounts for them... instead, set up a GoogleApps for Education domain where you can enroll your students and control access.

What Do You Mean Evernote Could Get Better? Last time I wrote about the way I organize myself completely changed for the better with Evernote. Really, I can't talk enough about this program and the endless possibilities there are for it. (Just look at the comments from that post.) In that post I gave a few resources for learning about Evernote and even fewer with how to use it in the classroom.

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