Matt Renwick is an 18-year public educator who began as a 5th and 6th-grade teacher in Rudolph, WI. He now serves as an elementary principal for the Mineral Point Unified School District . Matt also teaches online graduate courses in curriculum design and instructional leadership for the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He tweets @ReadByExample and writes for ASCD and Lead Literacy.

• Digital portfolios - started in 2012 with tiger woods golf, email and watching videos.
• Need to be strategic about what we are doing with the technology.
• How do we evaluate the digital portfolio options?
• You really need to look at your own school’s needs.
• Kidblog, freshgrade, google sites

• 6 C’s of digital portfolios.

• Collect and curate

• Create and Collaborate

• Communicate and Celebrate - gotta put something out there that is yours.

• Age of the student matters when it comes to type of portfolio.

• Elementary - Freshgrade
• Middle - Google Site
• High School - start moving to their own platform.
• Every on the same tool, using it the same way is really an impossible task.
• Lisa Snider in Oklahoma web site for journalism class.
• Making dog toys out of t-shirts.
• Investigate portfolio assessment to start.
• There is a need for something physical and not just digital.
• Plan instruction and assessment with the student in mind.
• How to be a transformative principal? Now is a great time to try out a tool to give kids access to an authentic audience.
• Biblionasium.com
• Kidblog account for a trip to Peru.

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