PART C - Implementation

My audio link is just above this. I used Vocaroo and it was very simple and worked great. I started with Audacity, but Blogger won't take an MP3 file...just a little frustrating.

I have been working on my Power Point presentation to the faculty, staff and administration.


One of my successes is that I found a really good video on You Tube to put into my presentation made by another elementary school. I was really happy about this because so much of the information out there is geared toward older children. So I was very excited to find this. They even interviewed the students and they talked about their growth with using portfolios and in their reflecting. I know the faculty at my school will like this video.

I still need to put in the screen shot of the portfolio page my tech coordinator, Dave, and I have been working on. This will go in on Monday. We are not quite done with it yet.

My plan is to share my Power Point presentation with the faculty at our staff meeting on Wednesday. I will show them some examples of different rubrics we will be able to use, and I will send out the survey via SurveyMonkey right after the meeting for them to fill out. I am excited to receive these and hope they will be as excited as I am to implement this.

This Monday afternoon the class will get their first introduction to electronic portfolios and will work on their "About Me" page. Originally, I didn't think I would get this far this year to let them start on this, but it just made sense to try it out with them so we can get an idea of how they do and if we have to change any of our ideas for next year. Plus, they are going to get a chance to put their electronic computer work in there. I've also made a page for them to put their photos. It is not quite done yet, but you can see part of it below.

I think my biggest bump in the road so far has been making the actual ePortfolio. I wanted to use something that was free, and in talking to Dave, we decided since we are learning and using all the different Google Apps so much, we would stick with that for this. At first I tried making one from scratch and that didn't go so well. So, I found a template, and that went much better! By deciding to use Google Sites we had to give all the children their own e-mail addresses and password. They have never had these before. So when we introduce the ePortfolios we will also be talking to them about this school e-mail address. Hopefully this will work out with 3rd graders. It also put us a little behind in finishing up the ePortfolio site, but it'll be done in time. :)

As far as delights...I am absolutely delighted to have my students start on these this year!