by Kathy Cassidy | Jan 13, 2012 | Less Teacher, More Student, Making The Shift, The How of 21st Century Teaching, Voices
Our student-led parent conferences always center around each first-grader’s individual blog. Their blogs are an online portfolio that shows their learning in all of our subject areas through the year. Because this work has been posted through the term, the parents have almost all seen the work before, but the comments that their children make during the conference regarding their goals help the parent to know what specific skills we have been working on and what to watch for through the next few months.
by Jennifer Bloomingdale | May 16, 2020
Make and Think Micro-Conference: Learning Our Way ForwardFeeling like you’re flying blind without a plan? Well we have you covered! Attend this Micro-Conference and walk away with your personalized plan to move forward! Register Here We’ve heard from hundreds of you...
by Kathy Cassidy | May 30, 2013 | Making The Shift, Powerful Learning Press, The How of 21st Century Teaching, Voices, Web Tools That Deepen Learning
The beauty of blog-based digital portfolios, says teacher-author Kathy Cassidy, “is that as the children and I are constantly assessing their learning in a formative and summative way, the students are also demonstrating their growing knowledge for a wide audience and learning about digital citizenship and appropriate online behavior. What great by-products of the assessment process!”
by Powerful Learning Practice | May 4, 2012 | Action Research, Community News, Powerful Learning Practice
The crown jewel of our year-long, job-embedded professional learning journey, The Connected Learner Experience, is the action research project that each team completes and presents at our year-end culminating celebration. Action research is a process in which our...
by Kathy Cassidy | Feb 27, 2012 | Creating Global Classrooms, Less Teacher, More Student, Making The Shift, Uncategorized, Voices
I have been using my students’ blogs as digital portfolios for several years. By the end of the school year, they reflect each child’s learning in many subject areas from the first weeks of school until the last. In addition to showing the development of our writing skills, we make podcasts of our reading fluency at different points in the school year, and use webtools to show our learning in language arts, mathematics, science, social studies and health.
