I started this one with reading Joyce's list of what I read to be 20 things she wished librarians would learn and I instantly panicked!!! Luckily I reread the title and it was UNLEARN! I can breathe again!
I chose to look into creating an electronic portfolio. I saw it years ago for high school students and I thought what a great way to record their work, thoughts, interests etc... beyond what a standardized test, facebook, twitter and instagram can show! Keeping an e portfolio throughout high school will hopefully leave them prepared for marketing themselves for future endeavors...college, careers etc... and the creation of these e portfolios are not just for art students! I am hoping to approach my administrator about creating a class or having the creation of an eportfolio as mandatory for all high school students.
An article that got me started: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/e-portfolios-in-the-classroom-mary-beth-hertz
I spent a lot of my time looking at different platforms to create e portfolios - google, dropbox, evernote, foliospaces and pathbrite. I started one on weebly but I am struggling. It seems a bit too basic. I am still working on the resume and other content I am going to share but I have to pick a better platform. This is going to be a continuous project this summer...I am anxious to have a professional place to share who I am and what I am doing outside of the 4 walls of the library. We all know the importance of the librarian in schools and the effect we can have on student achievement. But I feel we are constantly having to sell ourselves...showing everyone just what we can do. Hopefully my eportfolio will help do some of that work for me...if I do it well! Instead of preaching to the choir...maybe I can reach more ears!!
Some other articles:
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2013/03/are-eportfolios-still-relevant-for-todays-students/
https://sites.google.com/a/brvgs.k12.va.us/senior-projects-2012-2013/mchs
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