Portfolio Blogs

Ms. S. is is in charge of our Community Involvement program and supervises students as they spend a block of their day volunteering in their community.

She's within 5 years of retirement, yet she's reinvented her class using Blogger. She hated the end of the Community Involvement class because students had to prepare a tri-fold poster showing their involvement and their take-aways from the experience.

I remember when Ms. S. stopped in and asked me, "John, what is blogs?" I smiled, told her she made my day, and I showed her Blogger.

Gone are the tri-fold posters at the end of the term. Now students are held accountable weekly to post their involvement and get the added bonus of developing a digital footprint that they can use to showcase their volunteer efforts in their community.

Here's an example a post one of Ms. S' students created about Selfless Acts.

Blogging as a Assignment

During the 2012 Election I had students tracking how various campaigns used the media. What better way to learn about the media than to have the students using it?

Here are some screen shots of their work.