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Eportfolios: Digital StoryTelling and Proficiencies
Joe Lambert and Helen Barrett emphasize the importance of digital storytelling. “A story can be as short as explaining why you bought your first car or house or as long as War and Peace. Your own...
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Eportfolios Show Students’ Proficiency Discrepancies
Recently I watched numerous students show their eportfolios based on the university’s proficiencies. I was very impressed with all the great activities the students showed. I was not impressed by how...
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Eportfolios with Comprehensive Proficiency, Artifact, and Caption
I see students’ proficiency eportfolios as a three legged stool for demonstrating the proficiency The first leg is their ability to focus on the proficiency in a comprehensive way. When a proficiency...
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Scored Against Perfection
My wife and I went to the New York State Fair. She enjoyed looking at the table setting judging. I looked at that detailed analytic scoring for the judging which each participant sees before the...
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Class Standards and Finals: Mixed Signals
A colleague emailed me a bizarre story. Her college is part of multi-college educational system. She teaches a course that is required for all entering students. All of the colleges have the same...
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Exemplar Collecting and Using For High Quality Learning
At one of the colleges I teach at, I had to submit material for a course review. I was pleased to receive not only a perfect 3/3 but also to be asked to send some of my material in as exemplary work....
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Color Coded Rubrics For Formative Assessment
If your rubric has a limited number of concepts, you might consider using color coding. As you assess student work, you use a certain color highlighter for each major concept in the rubric (for...
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Having Students Go from Proficient to Above Proficient Through Improvements
In my Oral presentations (speech) class, I’m grading their final speeches on how much they have improved from when they originally gave the speech. They have to show me their original speech, the...
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Do We Know the Students’ Exact Progress in the Learning Standards At Any Moment?
Every teacher should know at any given moment where their students stand in regard to state standards, state assessments, or even the “final”. We need to focus on our students’ learning progress and...
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ISTE 2016 By Harry Grover Tuttle, Ed. D. College World Language Students’ Preferences Digital Badges – 52% Paper Certificates – 48% World Language: Can-Do Digital Badges Digital Badges Pro- –...
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