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| Digital Portfolios in the Primary Classroom |
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Kathy Stetter has been teaching elementary students for over 20 years, in 4th and 2nd grade. Kathy has recently acquired a masters degree in instructional technology from Philadelphia University. She is a Keystone Technology Educator and also belongs to the Discovery Education Network Star Educator program. Kathy has instructed educators through the South Western School District during summer workshops, in-service trainings, the SW Technology Summit, and also at the Lincoln Intermediate Unit #12. She recently co-presented a workshop with colleague, Laura Buffington at PETE&C 2010. Kathy uses technology seamlessly within her classroom, guiding students to reach their potential and preparing them for the 21st century.
| kathy_stetter@swsd.k12.pa.us |
Description: Students achieve high levels of engagement and learning when teachers tap into the source of their motivation. Since 21st century students are motivated by the use of technology, electronic portfolios are the answer for helping teachers organize and evaluate student learning in innovative ways. In this workshop, educators will learn strategies to design and organize student-centered, standards-based electronic portfolios, a powerful tool to guide formative assessment. Elementary teachers will find out how to help students create electronic "artifacts" that show growth in student learning using a variety of common desktop software tools.
. Sample Video embedded. Simply go to http://clear.msu.edu/viewpoint and log in (use the username and password we gave you for this) and you can record yourself (provided you have a webcam). Once logged in at the above address, click on the tab RECORD VIDEO. Once you have a recording you like, click SAVE and give your video a descriptive name and then click UPDATE to save your file. To access your file click on the MY VIDEOS tab. Click on your video and click on the embed code and copy it. Follow steps 5 and 6 in the below slideshow to insert your video onto your page.Note: Your video can not be made smaller using the tools provided by our .info website. The only way to make your video smaller is to adjust some numbers in the embed code before you submit it in steps 5d (do so in a text editor like WORD). Change all the instances of the number 450 to 200 and all the instances of 390 to 173. Once you've changed all those then copy them into the area described in step 5. Click submit. Nathan will help with this if you email him.
Workshop Info:Digital Portfolios Workshop WebsiteMy Classroom WebsiteSample File embedded. This is to show you what an embedded file would look like. Follow the instructions in that presentation to insert your own presentation. You should delete this text and the sample file when you are ready.
