Context:
Parkvale School is a decile 5 school in Hastings (on the rural fringe), with a current roll of 520 children from years 1 - 6. We have. We have 27 teaching staff (including full and part-time staff) and approximately 8 support staff. We are the lead school in the Magpie ICT contract and are currently in our 2nd year of the contract.
Teacher Use:
Background:
Once Lead Teachers had been introduced to the concept of staff portfolio’s through ‘MyPortfolio’ we quickly saw how the use of these for staff could enable staff to keep track of PD, reflections, notes.
We wanted to investigate how easy it would be to use and maintain a portfolio and if it could help teachers in presenting evidence for Teacher Registration and appraisal.
What we did
What happened
Student Use:
Background:
Students create lots of wonderful digital presentations and multimedia items. Most of these items are published on the blog, but not everything can be shared there. Some students are not motivated by the class blog publishing as they feel little autonomy about this. Some classrooms at Parkvale create paper-based portfolios for their students. These are presented in a variety of ways, with a range of goals.
Some staff were looking for a more digital method for sharing student achievement, learning and multilmedia items.
What we did:
What happened
Examples
Katrina
http://parkvaleroom16.blogspot.com/2011/08/learning-journey.html - Caitlin
Key Lessons and Next Steps: