The presenter of this session is Kathy Cassidy, a grade one teacher in Canada. She uses blogs in her classroom as a digital portfolio. I was impressed that she has first graders posting text and images in a classroom blog. The students use these blogs in parent/teacher conferences to show what they have learned and how they are learning. Her presentation includes four student presenters.
Kathy provides a Wiki along with her presentation. You can view this Wiki at http://primaryportfolios.wikispaces.com/. It includes the portfolio of the four student presenters and a link to Kathy's blog.
What I didn't like about the presentation was the quality, although I realize that it was a "home" video. The audio was choppy, and the kids were speaking over each other's pictures, making it hard to figure out who was presenting what. But overall it gets the message across that these kids really love incorporating digital learning into the classroom and that they are motivated and engaged. During the presentation they demonstrated using Sketchcast. Check it out at http://sketchcast.com/. Sketchcast looks like a tool similar to voicethread, where you can record a sketch with or without voice.
I also liked that the kids were conscious of being safe online and talked about dos and don'ts, such as not revealing your last name or location.
This was a fun and informative session, I highly recommend it.
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