A Glimpse of the Future??

This is simply fascinating!!  Please share!!

Digital Portfolios and Final Presentations!

Tomorrow will be the swan song for our class!!  With that said, please be sure that your final presentations are complete, as we should start with them before lunch.  If you have any last-minute questions, please e-mail me or call me at (508) 216-0384 (Google Voice- hah!). Before them, we will explore a bit around the idea of how digital portfolios may be used to get a richer picture of student proficiency.  Please be sure you read the two articles I gave you, Digital Portfolios: A Dozen Lessons in a Dozen Years and 3 Keys for a Successful E-Portfolio Implementation.  They will give you a nice theoretical construct as to the essential questions schools must wrestle with before starting a digital portfolio program.

Also, be sure to continue to share all of your sources (links and descriptors) for your final presentation on your personal page of our class wiki.

Have a good night!

For Sunday Morning, Aug 21

Hello Williamstown cohort!!  Great to see all of you again!

Here are the links to your "Partnering" Wordles:

Karen & Jeff-  Curriculum Wordle     
                         Instruction Wordle
Patricia & Karen:  Curriculum Wordle     
                              Instruction Wordle
Rommey, Paul & Donna:  Curriculum Wordle    
                                           Instruction Wordle

For Sunday morning, please copy and paste one of the above Wordles your group created in class today into a posting that you have created in your personal blog. This posting should be your thoughts regarding the following:

Is Prensky's idea of partnering realistic? Could a teacher (particularly one faced with high-stakes testing, pressure to achieve AYP, etc.) realistically set up his/her curriculum and instruction to use this approach daily? Why or why not? What could you do as a school leader to foster the partnering approach?