Digital Portfolios for Primary Students!
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.
read moreVolunteering abroad and creating a global classroom
When I visited Kegalle, Sri Lanka to volunteer with elephants, I also had the opportunity to teach English to orphan girls in the community. Despite having little teaching experience and a language barrier, I found it easy to relate with the orphans, and it turned out to be an amazing learning experience for everyone. The faces of these orphans, their personalities and their kind and innocent nature still resonate with me. They will not be forgotten as I return to my comfortable life in the States. I still aim to help them from here in the...
read moreFrom the Road at FETC 2012
FETC 2012 has officially begun and PLP is very excited to be in Orlando for this year’s conference. Throughout the conference (January 23-26) this blog will be updated with new information and pictures. Be sure to check back often for updates and additional chances to win prizes! January 24th (8:35pm) Our night started with a bang, literally! With less than ten minutes prior to the opening of FETC our booth came crashing down on Sheryl and I (due to no fault of our PLP staff). Although we were not excited at the idea of...
read moreAustralia’s ConnectU Culmination ARG Clue
For those of you playing our ConnectU Penguin vs. KangarooCulmination ARG, here is Clue 3 Clue 3: Computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Comment with your favorite smartphone example of...
read moreMeet our team: Lani Ritter Hall
It’s a brand new year at Powerful Learning Practice, and our Communities aren’t the only ones who have exciting things happening. Powerful Learning Practice has expanded its staff (and we’re still hiring!) and brought some fascinating new minds (and fresh ideas) to our team. We’d like to introduce our team to you, one by one, and so we’ve come up with seven questions for each of them so you can have a little peek into what they’re thinking and who they are. Meet Lani Ritter Hall, Team Leader for Powerful...
read moreThe Flip: Why I Love It – How I Use It
I love the flip. I do. And I realize by saying this I’m making a controversial statement. I believe if used judiciously, in the right context, the flip can free up valuable class time and provide the background knowledge that is fundamental for students to then go forward and wrestle with higher order thinking. Bottom line: it’s not always the right instructional choice, it’s only one tool in our educational repertoire. But it can be a powerful one.
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