ePortfolios and Google Sites - GTT058

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Featured Content ePortfolios with Google Sites Matt and Kasey discuss the value and implementation of ePortfolios and how easy it can be to use Google Sites as the platform for students to display and preserve their learning over the course of a school year or their time in a school from year to year. Discussion points:

• Showcase portfolio v. growth portfolio
• Other ePortfolio tools: Seesaw, Canvas
• No templates yet
• Reflection
• Advantages of G Suite for portfolios
  • Google Sites integrates with all of the other applications
  • G Suite users already have accounts
  • Easily embed everything from YouTube to Google Slides
  • Drag and drop interface that is easy to use and professional looking
  • New features make it even better with buttons and layouts
  • Workaround for comments

Send us your examples! Resources

• Dynamic learning in action
• Your chance to get students sharing their work with the world (Go Global)
• Great checklist from Eduphoria (even though it’s from 2013)
• Physics Portfolios (Thank you to Mike Mohammed)
  • Jillian Rosenbecker
  • Hannah Peksa

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Bettina Franz (comment from the website)
  • Google Forms being used to create comment boxes on Google sites.
• Libby Knaggs (via SpeakPipe)
  • Classwork in Google Classroom
• Dan Curtis (via SpeakPipe)
  • What do you do when students don't have permission to install Chrome extensions?
• Sarah Fromhold (email)
  • Is there a way to make Form responses go to the top of the response spreadsheet instead of the bottom?
  • Here’s a script to try

On The Blogs

• Matt - Google Slides icon boards for low-prep, visual thinking
• Kasey - How to Organize Assignments in Google Classroom

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