I currently teach 3rd, 4th and 5th grade Emotional/Behavioral Disordered Special Education students at a Title One school. Twice a year we hold student led conferences where our students show their parents their work and explain whether or not they are meeting standard on the items they have chosen to put into their portfolio's.
I think it would be exciting to set up a blog for each of my students where they would be able to upload the work they would want to put in a portfolio and blog about their work. They could reflect on each assignment from what they liked, what they didn't like, what they could change for next time. This would give students an electronic portfolio that they would be able to share with their family outside of the school day. If each of my students had an E-Portfolio they could build on it year after year and share it with their next teacher. With the blog set up I would be able to give feed back to each of the assignments and post the rubric that goes with each assignment.
The only draw back is the fact that our district does not allow any blog sites to be brought up on school computers. I would have to figure out a way to use a non-school computer and a wireless network that didn't belong to the district to make this happen.
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I really like the idea of an E-portfolio. How many students do you have? Is there an issue with computers for your students? I would love to blog with my students, but I think this may be hard to do with only 2 student computers in my room. Why does your district block blogging sites? Is there anyway you could convince them to allow one blogging site?
ReplyDeleteTry convincing them of the value, both instructional and as professional development, in blogging. If you predict that the powers-that-be will be very resistant, consider proposing edublogs. Everything sounds less scary when it has "edu" stuck on it. For some reason administration will assume it is scholarly then and not frivolous or dangerous. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteShauna,
ReplyDeleteI currently have 5 students, so making E-portfolio's with them wouldn't be to hard if district allowed us access. Our district is very conservative and do not like to think outside of the box to often.