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8 Educational Apps To Create Digital Portfolios by Jennifer Rita Nichols, TeachThought Intern Digital portfolios are becoming increasingly popular in classrooms across North America. School administration, teachers, parents, and students are all recognizing the benefits of this amazing tool. Digital portfolios have the ability to impact education and student learning in ways that we simply have not been able to do before technology evolved to the level it is at today. This exciting new technological era will change the ways students think and learn, creating digital arenas for sharing work and building on knowledge. Many educators are eager and willing to incorporate digital portfolios into their curriculum. 1. Platform: iOS Price: $1.99 This app is very easy to use for both teachers and students. Easy Portfolios allows the user to share items in the portfolio via email or upload to a Dropbox account. 2. Platform: Android and iOS Price: Free Evernote has become a very popular app to use for digital portfolios in classrooms. 3. Price:Free

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Chalk & Wire 21Classes – Free Classroom and Education Blogs - Home Home Social Networking At Saugus, we believe that social networking tools offer tremendous learning opportunities for K-20 students, and empower teachers through the ability to build communities of practice. The SUSD Teacher (this site) and Student Communities are great examples. Here are a few resources that will help you get started: Presentations: Below is the slidecast (with audio) of a recent presentation at Harvard University on social networking in K12. View more webinars from Jim Klein [ Download - audio/mp3 ] Elgg Open-source Social Networking Platform: If you are interested in downloading our highly modified version of the Elgg social networking platform, you can get it here: elgg6.5.58.tar.gz application/g-zip This program runs on the AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python/etc) stack, which is part of most Linux distributions (LAMP), and is available for Mac (MAMP) and Windows (WAMP). Sites for creating avatars: Things to Think About:

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