E-portfolios

Papa's E-Portfolio  This page is a mockup of an eportfolio and was developed to provoke discussion about teacher and student contributions to such artefacts.   [|Ian Fox] who writes about eportfolios from the NZ perspective, suggests that eportfolios need to demonstrate three elements Have a look through this page and see if you think it addresses those elements. People mentioned on this page bear no resemblance to real people who occupy space on Planet Earth.   No living creatures were harmed in the production of this page.  (To maintain privacy, links to real student work have been disabled.) 
 * metacognitive thinking
 * relationship between home and school
 * assessment FOR learning
 * 1) identify where each element is demonstrated (if it is)
 * 2) identify elements that are not evident
 * 3) Suggest next steps for the 'teacher' to do to address the gaps.

 Here I am with my mentor Matua Alec. Aren't I handsome! And isn't he hairy! See how friendly I am and how well behaved I can be when i am outside. I liked listening to the birds in the trees. Papa

You were a really good leader that day Papa. Thank you for controlling your temper so well. It didn't really hurt that much when you pushed me over. The birds were really noisy in the morning weren't they. How many sorts of birds did you hear? I remember the bellbirds. What were the other ones? Matua Alec.

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I used a programme called I Can Activate to do this small video. I had to take lots of photos, and each time i had to move the phone or glue stick a tiny bit so it would look like it was moving naturally. When I had taken all the photos, I uploaded the movie into BlipTV. I had to get the special HTML code so that I could put it on my wiki page. Papa
 * Desktop Battles**

Wow Papa, that's really cool. Your movie flows well so the objects were moved really small amounts each time. Can you show the others in our class how to do that please? I think they would like to make one too. Matua Alec

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Valhalla Farm pathway project
We went for a walk on Valhalla Farm, through the creaky gate and over the non-electric fence to the pond. I talked about this walk on Voicethread. Look at all the fancy pants words I used.

Whaia Heather wrote my words down while I was talking. I put the words into WORDLE and it made this word picture. She spelt Taniwha wrong! Papa

Yes you really can use some interesting and colourful language when you set your mind to it Papa. Well done. I am really impressed that you picked up my spelling mistake, you really were reading it thoroughly. Whaia Heather

Our class made these weta hotels and we put them up at Valhalla. Papa

These weta motels look great, I think we can invite the neighbours over for dinner. Papa

What's for dinner Papa, can I come too? Matua Alec

[|bokashi.xls] **A very informative survey, your graphs clearly show the use of Bokashi around the unit. <span style="color: rgb(90, 211, 97);">Another way to gather data is ** [|Survey monkey]

Base Carving
Our class had a meeting and talked about what we wanted on the carving. We all brainstormed our ideas and Matua Alec wrote them down. I did several drawings of the ideas and the class voted this one as the one they wanted to follow. There were several changes that happened later but you can see the main ideas were used. I think it's really cool. It tells the story of the environment. Tuna thrash through the river, the koru are the four winds representing people being brough together. Trees and animals emerge at the top of the carving. Papa

How did you make the slider slideshow Papa? Can you explain this for us? Whaia Heather
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