Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged Blogs
Blogs as Web Based Portfolios Part 1
Apr 27th
(Part 1 of a series of blog posts to be made into a free PDF. Your feedback, ideas and thoughts are critical!)
The PurposeThe purpose of this PDF is to help schools looking at adopting Web Based Portfolios (WBP) as a form of assessment with students over a period of time. By adopting a web-based platform as a container in which to house portfolio content, schools give students a web-based vehicle with endless possibilities to create, collaborate and communicate their learning to the world.
All-In-One Assessment Vehicle
Web Based Portfolios have been gaining ground in recent years as the skills needed to create More >
What’s Your Container?
Mar 29th
What I love about presenting is how themes emerge within my presentations that I was never thinking about before the conference begins. But somewhere in the process of doing 6 presentations at the EARCOS Teacher’s Conference a theme in my sessions emerged. What is your container?
We talked in many of my sessions about having a container to house all of your web “stuff”. What that contain looks like really doesn’t matter as long as:
A. It works for youB. It allows EVERYTHING to be embeded
When you create a “class container” think of it as not just a place to actually put More >
Discussing Blog Design in 5th Grade
Nov 24th
I had a great day today. I got to talk about web design with 5th grade students. Ms. Bulsza invited me in to talk to the class about their blogs.
Over the past couple of weeks someone (OK…maybe me) taught them how to install embedded widgets on their blogs sidebars. What I found interesting is that I taught one girl in one class how to do it….two weeks later every kid in 5th grade has the most outrageous sidebar widgets on their blogs. Things that had nothing to do with education, their learning, or 5th grade…..the purpose of the blogs.
Now there are two More >
ISB Round Up: Google Earth, YouTube, and Blogs
Oct 28th
There are so many great things happening at our school right now that I find I don’t have time to blog about one before I’m deep into another project with another teacher. All that I know is we’re having some fun!
Let’s start in Mr. Jessee’s room where I wanted to share a great Google Earth project that the third grade team has been working on for the past month or so. I talked about this in an earlier post so won’t go into all the back ground here. But you can visit Mr. Jessee’s class blog and download Google Earth tours. This time the More >A blog post, a tweet, a connection
Sep 4th
I have to share this story with you if for no other reason….I’ve shared it with anyone that would listen to me at school today. I believe this story shows the power of:
1. What can happen when we allow students to be “out there”.2. What happens when our teachers become networked and can bring that network to their students.3. That through connections educational possibilities are endless!
This couldn’t have come at a better time with Clint H leaving a comment on my last post about a conversation he had with his IT Director:
He has some very persuasive arguments for his ‘walled garden’ approach More >
Starting the school year off with a blog!
Sep 3rd
3 1/2 weeks into the school year and we’ve already set up 691 student blogs at http://blogs.isb.ac.th and 151 teacher blogs at http://inside.isb.ac.th. This could be remembered as the “Year of the Blog” at ISB.
The Technical Part: Behind the scene these two sites are located on school linux servers. Both sites are running WordPressMU.
Inside ISB: We create the teacher accounts/blogs as they ask for them. This way we know who is blogging and can support them as they get started.
Blogs @ ISB: We uploaded all the students using the Dagon Design Import Users Plugin. Once all the students are in the system Dennis, Kim and More >
A Great Day in St. Louis
Jul 28th
A big thank you to Elizabeth Helfant for inviting me into St. Louis for a chance to spend a day with the staff of Mary Institute Country Day School. I was the last in a string of one day workshops that Elizabeth put together for her staff. Being the last of the summer was nice as it allowed us to talk about how tools such as Google Earth, Blogs, and Wikis can be used in the classroom. We spent the first part of our time not talking about the tools but looking at examples of how they are being used in More >
Blog Posts for thought Feb. 8
Feb 9th
I’ve spend the past week doing a lot of blog reading. With 40+ students taking the grad course here at ISB and another 8 that I’m teaching for PSU makes for a lot of blog reading in a week.
I predicted this year would be about building value with these tools and that I personally was going to focus on bringing the conversation to people who are open to hearing it and are ready to hear it.
These courses are just that. Some people never before hearing the word ‘podcast’. While others have wanted to dive in but were waiting for the right opportunity.
This More >
