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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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Blogging Cycle Again

On December 12, 2011 By

I wrote before about my thoughts on blogging, Diigo and Zotero. I created a cycle that I wanted the kids to go through with their blogging (I like mind maps). The cycle is fairly simple, students are given a reading, they use Diigo to mark up the document to create sticky notes and [...]

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Working With WordPress and Student Portfolios

On April 10, 2010 By

I took an online course a few years back through an educational consortium in British Columbia. The course was lead by Helen Barrett. Since then I have been exploring how a blogging system might be used as an electronic portfolio. She recently wrote that:

Blogger is clean, simple, easy to use; I find [...]

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Working With Diigo

On January 25, 2010 By

“I like peer editing this way” …… I am frequently surprised with what kids like.

Started having students go through a revision process that included using Diigo to markup articles and peer edit their classmates drafts. So far we are using yellow highlights for key ideas, blue for vocabulary and pink [...]

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Bringing Home the Blogs

On November 2, 2009 By

There are a number of different ways you can use a wordpress blog in a school. Blogs, for example, can be setup as content management systems, for recording class activities, growth portfolios, photoblogs, to chronicle an activity, to organize [...]

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