Learning Portfolios
Learning Portfolios using Book Creator
App: Book Creator iPad & web app.
At the beginning of the year, students created a digital notebook. Throughout the year they recorded their thoughts, feelings, learning, and progress. At the end the year, students reflected upon their
Custom Covers
Each book is personalized and owned by students. They take on responsibility to add through it all year long, and maintain a current table of contents.
STudent Reading Samples
Students can record videos of themselves reading samples of level-appropriate texts. With multiple samples throughout the year, students can reflect back on their reading fluency, and this can be shared with parents and teaching partners.
Document STudent Projects
Students can add photos, captions, videos, and narration about works they create in multiple topics, especially specials and electives.
REflections
Students navigated the school servers to retrieve photos from field trips and other events to write their reflections about the day.
Interest
Students captured their "hopes and dreams" for the year, and documented aspects of their "classroom life" from table groups to book clubs, favorite activities, and various teachers.
Literacy
Students documented their progress in reading and writing. From brainstorming ideas with mind mapping tools to sharing their writing samples.
Expectations
Charge your iPad at home every night.
Keep your screen off when we are not using devices (especially in the hallway!)
Only use the apps as directed by a teacher for that moment.
Touch only your iPad.
To share, ask a teacher to cast your iPad screen to the whiteboard.
Who is a Learning Portfolio for?
YOU - as a capsule of your 2020-2021 school experience and growth.
Your teachers.
Your family - parents, grandparents, everyone.
Our Town School community #belonging.
Let's Get Started!
Stay at your desk with your assigned iPad.
Create a new SQUARE-shaped book in BOOK CREATOR.
Create the following pages.
(When done) Correct your page order.
(When done) Add emojis and flare to your title page.
(When done) Create a page with your superpower.
Make a new SQUARE-shaped book for 2020-2021
Title, Name, Date
Page 2: Table of Contents
Page 3: Goals
Academic Goals
Social Goals
Personal Goals
Page 4+:
Who am I?
Who is your kindergarten buddy?
(4th grade only)
Who are your teachers this year?
Who is in your cohort?
STEM
Math - Explain EDU
Mrs. Warrington's Suggestions:
1). Explain how halving or doubling a factor affects the product
2) Explain some things they learned about number theory:
Factors, multiples, square numbers, rimes, composites,
3) Explain how the area model for multiplication works
4) Some boys are working on a challenging puzzle dealing with factors and multiples - they might want to describe that challenge and some strategies they used to solve it.
