Learning portfolios

Have just been to a sensational session about learning portfolios with Rob Clarke from Fendalton Primary school. We have looked at using blogs for learning portfolios and the ways that children have been using these as reflection tools and logs of their own learning. I have also learned about di lic ous (not sure about that spelling) and will be looking at exactly how this works and how I can use this for reducing my workload. Lynne's class at TAI have been into the blogging since the beginning of the year so I will be referring to that as well. I would like to examine the benefits for families of using blogs as a learning reflection tool too. I do think that having parents being able to be right on the learning journey and actively participate in the feedback process will be beneficial to the children.

We will need to be looking at the digital safety and ethics involved in blogging as a result of this shift too. Further research is necessary on this from my part.

All in all... looking forward to this journey :-)

Thanks Rob

The big thing for me was a clearer understanding of the use of tags. I am going to be a much better blog facilitator because of this. I have only just started doing this WEB 2 stuff with teachers and students. You have have also given us some very useful links. I also agreeDe-li-cio-us is absolutely great. Have you used google notes - new and really cool.

John P

Issue - Coping with Digital Safety

Here are some links relating to Digital Safety:
Fendalton's Digital Safety Site. It will open in a new window.

Here is the link to my Delicious account pages relating to digital safety. Some of these are sites, others are movies on youtube. Some relate to general concepts such as privacy, sharing personal information, while others are specific to particular technologies such as blogs.

Here is a snippet of the movies I've found on youtube:


Here is a link searching youtube for 'internet safety'. You could also do a search on teachertube for the same keywords.

I hope you find these helpful.

Great session

Wonderful session today thank you. If I was thinking of this in terms of an Ignorance Log I have been working in the unknown area. So much to learn but looks like fun. Need some time now to play around with it. Keep up the good work. Very worthwhile session.

an eye opener

Thanks Rob for the very interesting and practical workshop. I'm thinking about the applications of this for the senior secondary classroom - where we are trying to encourage feedback before summative assessment. Blogs could also be a great place for media students to share their work with a gobal audience (thinking about how to circumvent curly copyright issues though!)

Delicious link

This is my link to delicious http://del.icio.us/wombatstew

Great workshop

Great hands-on practical session. Megan from Toko on the 'Forgotten Highway'