I’m really looking forward to leading an ePortfolio workshop for 4J faculty. We’ll cover basics on how to work with students to set up ePortfolio blogs using WordPress – all 4J students and staff have WordPress blogs, so the mechanism is in place, just need to show folks how. I’ll also make a pitch for teachers to create instructional blogs using WordPress. Fun!
Had a great time showing CY staff the ease and utility of using WordPress instructional blogs, and the benefit for students of using WordPress ePortfolios.
Check Julie’s instructional blog that she set up the after the workshop! Excellent.
http://blogs.4j.lane.edu/hohenemser/
Students in my Period 1 Digital Media class have created orientation videos for incoming 6th graders. They can be viewed on our CY Vimeo Channel here.
I’ll be showing colleagues 4J’s WordPress MU blogging opportunities and the iPortal site today during our staff development inservice.These are two excellent utilities that really do deliver. Fun times ahead!
I am now using the 4J iPortal Course site for all of my courses. Students need to LOGIN using their 4J username and password to check in daily. Weekly class activities, assignments and due dates, grades, samples of student work, and other important class and general CY information is accessed here.
Students are expected to upload their assignments to the iPortal site unless specified otherwise. All students in my classes have been instructed on how to do this. The iPortal site is a secure site to ensure privacy, and can be accessed from school, home, and virtually anywhere students have access to the Internet and a Web Browser.
Click on the following link to access the iPortal Site.