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Dragon Blogs

On May 19, 2012 By

A little less than a semester on our blogs and over 5000 posts. Over 3000 graphics, embedded presentations, video and more. Three portfolio trials by three different teachers (in the past it has been just me.) A group of twenty teachers learning about portfolio creation over a series of PD sessions. We are getting there [...]

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Trying Out Gdrive Embeds

On May 17, 2012 By

This is cool and will impact the way we handle portfolios next year. After getting a tweet from @chamada I realized I missed the big picture with GDrive. I had tried to embed a podcast in mp3 format and when I found no embed code I stopped. But his tweet made me look at things [...]

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Getting Ready For Portfolios

On March 13, 2012 By

From our First Session to get interested staff ready for portfolios by creating a portfolio!

Please Read the information on this web page before coming to the March 9 session.

overview of portfolios using blogs speed Geeking session (audio, video, presentation, graphics) Brainstorming session, what types of professional artifacts [...]

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Monday PD Session

On March 7, 2012 By

A draft I forgot to post.

Back in early February Josse and I led a PD session on blog based portfolios. The second session is in a few days. The ideas that led me to try this came from the thoughts of a few people and my personal experiences. Another draft I hope I [...]

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iBooks

On February 13, 2012 By

Back in 2010 I wondered about the effects that ebooks and the Ipad would have on education. Today I think we are moving away from desktops and laptops and towards tablets and I can see tools like iBooks Author accelerating the movement towards digital books. Creative, intelligent, collaborative teachers need few things but [...]

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Blogfolio mechanics is done. Need to look more at why?

On December 13, 2011 By

I have been looking a lot at how we could setup an Eportfolio using WordPress a short post on why.

In 2010 I had students create a portfolio using WordPress. Earlier this week I resurrected one of the blogs created by Justine so the grade seven team had an example of what a blog based [...]

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Getting Ready Part 2

On November 29, 2011 By

Thinking about creating a template blog that could be used to help create blog based portfolios at SSIS. Been waiting for a few things to work themselves out before starting on this again. I am thinking about a standard approach in creating the portfolio where artifacts, reflections etc. are created in posts. Pages used to link [...]

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