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EduClipper Powers Presentation Portfolio
EduClipper is a free sharing tool perfect for clipping, curating and sharing content. Teachers will create Presentation Portfolios to share information with their class. Students will create Presentation Portfolios to lead parent-teacher conferences.
LinkedIn at 14
Ultimately, a portfolio system should showcase a person's work and that showcasing should in turn help that person advance and achieve his or her goals. If that's the case, why not LinkedIn for students?
Deeper Competency-Based Learning
We found a handful of schools that ask the big rather than the small questions. They don't just ask students to turn in a test, they demand public demonstrations of learning.
Three Ring: Bringing Qualitative Work into Focus
Rescue forgotten student work from the bottom of backpacks or hidden in endless stacks of binders—everything is organized seamlessly and ready to be used for teaching and learning.
Students Shine Through Digital Portfolios
Voyager Academy Charter School in Durham, NC is a project-based learning school that currently has about 1,250 students across grades K-11. We started with 320 students in grades 4-7 in 2007 and have grown exponentially. This upcoming school year we will add 12th grade and complete our growth.
Portfolio Provider Pathbrite Lands Another $4 Million
Pathbrite, announced today that it has completed a $4 Million Series A2 financing round that extends the $2.5 Million Series A financing round announced in June 2012. That brings the total raised to $8 million. Pathbrite is the leading provider of portfolio services to K-12 and…
Pathbrite & Pearson Team on Portfolios
Pathbrite, the next generation education portfolio platform company, launched a version targeting educators and announced a marketing partnership with Pearson eCollege to integrate with its LearningStudio, a personalized learning environment serving more than nine million students each year.
It’s Student in Action, Not Inaction
The natural state of children is “in motion.” They are not simply pictures, they are motion pictures. A classroom full of third graders is a lot like a pool of sharks, except scarier. We are all aware of this natural state of activity yet we’ve managed to take our adult cubical workspace and force it upon the classroom.
A Tale of 5 Cities: Portfolio Strategy Revisited
Neerav Kingsland considered reforms in Memphis, New Orleans, Newark, Philadelphia, and Washington DC and concluded cities that develop charter districts, devote significant resources to human capital, and thoughtfully regulate charter authorization will outperform everyone else. He's right
Improving Urban Education Options: A Digital Portfolio Approach
There are three key strategies to improving urban schools: bring high expectations to life, create and portfolio of quality options, and phase in personal digital learning