This is a post I use in 7th grade to get them working on a digital portfolio.
Read some samples from a great summer program
Writing a Learning Reflection
One of the objectives to learning to use Blogger is that it is a great platform for building a digital portfolio of learning. This portfolio allows you to showcase your learning products and process in a way others can access, share, and interact with. What goes in your portfolio? You will decide, but you begin by writing a learning reflection about something cool, amazing, awesome, or surprising that you learned or did. There are 2 focuses in a learning reflection your Product and Process.
Product: You need to share something you created, and blogger allows you to do that easily. Using the insert image or video buttons in the compose window.
If you do something awesome in a class and you want evidence, ask the teacher if you can use your tablet and take pictures. For Today you can describe the evidence you want to use and add it later if needs be.
Process: Your learning reflection needs to take the reader through your process as a learner. It should have a beginning a middle and an end. The beginning can include writing that answers the following questions:
You can also share information from your
Once you have that done, get ready to share
As we get ready to share our writing with others, we have to make sure it is as strong as possible. This involves looking critically at our own writing and asking someone we trust with our writing to also take a close and critical look at it. When we look at our writing we can do it in a number of ways. The First way is to read our work out loud. This helps you make sure that it "reads" correctly. You can also read out loud to a partner. The second thing you can do is write a bit about your writing, and then ask a partner to read your writing and also write about it. We will be doing this together on Monday.
Read some samples from a great summer program
Writing a Learning Reflection
One of the objectives to learning to use Blogger is that it is a great platform for building a digital portfolio of learning. This portfolio allows you to showcase your learning products and process in a way others can access, share, and interact with. What goes in your portfolio? You will decide, but you begin by writing a learning reflection about something cool, amazing, awesome, or surprising that you learned or did. There are 2 focuses in a learning reflection your Product and Process.
Product: You need to share something you created, and blogger allows you to do that easily. Using the insert image or video buttons in the compose window.
If you do something awesome in a class and you want evidence, ask the teacher if you can use your tablet and take pictures. For Today you can describe the evidence you want to use and add it later if needs be.
Process: Your learning reflection needs to take the reader through your process as a learner. It should have a beginning a middle and an end. The beginning can include writing that answers the following questions:
You can also share information from your
- What did you know about this topic before?
- How long have you been interested in this topic?
- When you started this assignment or project did you think you could do it?
- How confident were you it would be successful?
- How did you feel at the beginning of the assignment or project?
- Step by step what did you do?
- How did it go?
- How did it feel?
- What were the challenges and how did you overcome them?
- Be sure to talk about everyone else who was involved, we rarely work alone.
The end of your reflection should:
- Clearly state what you have learned
- Help the reader understand how this project changed you
- Describe how you would approach a challenge like this in the future
- Talk about "What's next" where are you going to take this learning or interest next
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As we get ready to share our writing with others, we have to make sure it is as strong as possible. This involves looking critically at our own writing and asking someone we trust with our writing to also take a close and critical look at it. When we look at our writing we can do it in a number of ways. The First way is to read our work out loud. This helps you make sure that it "reads" correctly. You can also read out loud to a partner. The second thing you can do is write a bit about your writing, and then ask a partner to read your writing and also write about it. We will be doing this together on Monday.
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