An invitation to teachers and students: Visit HighTechHigh.org, look at their Digital Portfolios, and then start building YOUR DIGITAL PORTFOLIO (contact me for tips)

Here is a link to a book called SHOW YOUR WORK  How to Make A Digital Portfolio

This book allows students to build on the work of Dr. Fischler, who promotes the use of computers, projects and discussions in classes.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxOBI_ rp54lieXlDUUFyNzNIckk/edit?usp=sharing

that link is going to a document that can be downloaded from Google Drive.

I'm interested in working with students who want to create their digital portfolios and PUT THE PORTFOLIOS ONLINE.   This will raise the profile of this important procedure.

You can see digital portfolios at  www.TinyURL.com/exampledp   Ben Staley's DP at HighTechHigh.   I encourage you to share this invitation to students and ask the students to contact me if they want help in organizing and displaying their DP.

www.HighTechHigh.org is the location of other digital portfolios.

http://tinyurl.com/hightechhighdp   <<< See the page

http://www.hightechhigh.org/schools/HTH/?show=dp    Lots of Examples of DPs   

These links will take you to the place where High Tech High displays its students' DPs.

http://www.amazon.com/Show-Your-Work-Digital-Portfolio/dp/1499515359

This effort builds on tips that Dennis Yuzenas and Matt Blazek have given about HOW TO USE PROJECTS in the classroom.

LINK TO DENNIS YUZENAS talking about PORTFOLIOS

LINK to Matt BLazek's list of PROJECTS

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Steve McCrea    (954) 646 8246    

VisualAndActive@gmail.com     What are you doing with your school projects?  It's the end of the school year... will you take photos?  Will your students preserve their work for later evaluation?

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   Matt Blazek's workshop about projects was given in Miami in September 2013. His CD of projects can be obtained by calling him ... 

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   Tips for Projects by Matt Blazek

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Will your students be able to find examples of their work to show future teachers and to refer back to learning that took place earlier this year?

Will some of their projects be available online to REINFORCE the learning that happened earlier this year?  

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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.   Margaret Mead

If people are coming to work excited, if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly, if they're concentrating doing things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings - then somewhere you have leaders. - Robert Townsend

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Are you ready to "DP"? Three webpages to explain and describe Digital Portfolios

http://tinyurl.com/howtodp  A step-by-step description of DPs
http://tinyurl.com/exampledp1  High Tech High's list of DPs
http://tinyurl.com/exampledp   Ben Staley's DP  (a student at HTH)
http://tinyurl.com/dpsteve   Steve's DP
http://tinyurl.com/howtodp10  an example of a VIDEO reflection by a student at River Cities Charter School (December 2013)

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These web pages will give you a start on how to make a Digital Portfolio

This student's work is an example of
a well-organized DP

From my book about Digital Portfolios






Table of Contents from the book "Show Your Work!"

Show what you can do with what you know.

WHAT is a digital portfolio?

Show me an example of a DP.

WHERE do they use Digital Portfolios?

High Tech High

WHAT goes into a Digital Portfolio?

HOW do we store the Digital Portfolio?

How To Set Up the Web Site

Suggestions by Ben Staley, student at High Tech High

Youtube is a recommended site

How to Use Google Drive

How to Set Up the Youtube Channel

How to Connect the Channel to the Site

How to Create Your Blog using Blogger

WHEN?

How frequently should I update my Digital Portfolio?

What Else Do You Need?

WHO supervises the growth and shaping of the Digital Portfolio?

Contributions

Dennis Yuzenas: Essential Skills

Matt Blazek: Projects

Mario Llorente: An Exercise with Quotations

More Examples of Digital Portfolios

Steve's DP

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Excerpt from the book:

If you know how to use Google Drive
If you know how to use Google's SITES web-making software
If you would rather see a student's actual work in additiona to a transcript's report of the Grade Point Average,
then you are ready for introducing Digital Portfolios to students.    

Standards:
1. No personal information (the student might want to put her actual name, but I encourage everyone to call themselves "Fred Jones at Indiana Middle School in Freeport, Ind.")
2. No email links to a "REAL" email address, but you can invite comments to the site.
3.  ADD YOUTUBE videos to allow visitors to HEAR the "performance of understanding" or exhibition of the student's learning.   High Tech High DPs don't generally have video components, so your version will be the next step in the evolution of DPs.  The VIDEO does NOT have to show the face of the student.  Shy students can hide behind the camera and simply give a tour of a poster or book or report by describing what was learned.  See the videos at River Cities Communities Charter School... 

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Steve McCrea
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The vision:  Students in Florida (and other places) could use the same format that students in California use at High Tech High School

(1) Admission officers could see the school work that earned the 3.7 GPA that the student's transcript shows.

(2) Admissions officers could see and hear the student's reflection and thought processes... (we know that some people make decisions about you based only on the sound of your voice -- Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink documents cases where a 

... if students in Florida take the time to assemble a web site with examples of their work.

(3) STUDENTS CAN GO FARTHER by using a BLOG to describe their "metacognition" (their awareness about how they think and how their critical thinking has been improved by specific projects)

Click here to get the sample projects

(4)  STUDENTS CAN USE YOUTUBE videos to introduce their style of talking and thinking when they REFLECT on their projects.   It's not only the PROJECTS that speak about the students.... the students can SPEAK OUT about their work.   The Digital Portfolio

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR INTERESTING PROJECTS?  Then look for Matt Blazek's List of Projects  CLICK HERE

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Free Lesson Plan for a multi-day series of activities that will engage complex thinking: a Plan for all Grade Levels (just adjust the amount of work that you ask the students to do)

Click and connect with Robert

This lesson plan was created by Robert Maclachlan.   I am in a discussion group with Robert and I learned about his lesson plan, developed as part of his degree program.  Readers of this blog might recall that Robert is the creator of the TEACHERMAN acronym for high points about learning how to create a good online course.

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Here is a link to his blog (which should give you an idea about how to develop digital portfolios for teachers as well as students).  His blog posts are an example of curating to guide students to deeper exploration.  It's a form of "connected learning," allowing students to make connections between pieces.

Here is the download for his Sonnet Writing lesson plan.

Here is a link to his use of xtranormal...

I found his post about a visit to John Keat's deathplace particularly engaging and helpful in showing students how to quickly get to the point.

I'll close this post with a look at "The Impossible Dream."  Those words still make my skin crawl, send shivers up my spine and bring tears to my eyes.  I choke when I try to recite parts of the song.  Go ahead, try to say "to run where the brave dare not go" and try to not be inspired to do more than what's adequate...  This is what the transformation of education is about:  going farther on a quest.