Proof of What Your Students Have Learned

A few years ago, the ‘flavour of the month’ involved using student portfolios as a way for students to demonstrate their learning over the course of the semester. In the last few weeks of the year, I would see teachers hauling boxes of students’ portfolios out to their car—only to drag the same box back into the school in the morning.

Is this you?

While some things have changed, others have not. While there is still a strong emphasis being put on assessment for learning, assessment as learning and assessment of learning, the need to collect PHYSICAL evidence from students is disappearing with the increased infusion of technology into teaching and learning.

Enter the Googlio.

Instead of asking your students to prepare a physical ‘pen-and-paper’ portfolio, why not have them build a website to demonstrate their learning? For those of you who teach courses in which the final 30% is allocated towards a Culminating Task, have your students build their own website to show all that they have learned over the course of the semester.

Here’s a quick overview of what a Googlio is:



Now, instead of being THAT teacher who drags the same stack of student portfolios back and forth to the car, be the teacher that marks a Googlio.

On the beach.

Here's a great place to start:
https://sites.google.com/site/googlioproject/home