A digital portfolio is digitalizing student Artifacts. This involves posting student work online which is a great way to share with families what learning is happening in your classroom in real time!
What artifacts might you want to share?
PHOTOS
VIDEOS
VOICE RECORDINGS
DRAWINGS
DOCUMENTS
Seesaw is a great online site to create a digital portfolio for your students! Seesaw is very accessible with a desktop version, a free app and the ability to access straight on a mobile device. I really enjoyed how EASY TO NAVIGATE seesaw is because that makes it realistic for students to be successful on this device! I noticed how the teacher has control to adjust the settings so they can set all posts to be approved before posting as you begin to teach students what is appropriate to post online!
********My loyal blog readers may be wondering why Seesaw sounds so familiar well it was a part of my Assignment 2 What makes a good blog project! Check out my walk through tutorial if you have not had a chance yet!
One way to use this in the classroom?
The LESSON PLAN: Students will use a digital portfolio like Seesaw to create a family free inquiry for Science class! Students would pick an animal of their choice to get the project started and share a photo, video or document explaining which animal they chose. Parents would comment a question they have about the animal and that question would be the topic of next weeks post on the topic! Continue for 5 weeks with the parents asking questions and the students conducting research and sharing the new information online with their parents!
CAREFUL: some students may not have a family that is able to support this project so the teacher would need to step up and share in those students learning!
BENEFITS:
- students learn to do research to answer questions
- students learn to share their learning using a digital portfolio
- parents can learn alongside their child
- students learn to report information in a clear manner
- will great make discussion points at home while introducing seesaw to the students as well as their parents
