Richer PictureCast: Recent Episodes

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The Richer Picturecast highlights the potential of digital portfolios and badges for students and teachers to document and highlight powerful learning. We will also explore project-based learning and alternative forms of assessment.

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How can students demonstrate the Portrait of a Learner? This episode continues our series on how Digital Badges help students meet each school's Vision of a Learner. Our guests are principal Heather Taylor and coordinator Marisa Stankiewicz from Putnam (CT) High School.

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How can students connect the resources at their school to their future plans for college and career? In this episode, Amy Roy from Westerly Public Schools in Westerly, RI, discusses how students can use Richer Picture to earn badges that connect to school pathways and state endorsements.

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How can students show they are fulfilling a school's Vision of a Graduate? Hear how one school uses Digital Badges to help students meet their portrait of a learner - while letting them show their individuality. Our guests are Tiffany Risch and Anthony Marsella from Coventry (RI) High School.

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How can CTE programs use digital badges to show student’sprogress?

Career and Technical Education (CTE) is more popular than ever, leading students to careers from biotechnology to culinary arts to digital media.

As CTE student enrollment continues to increase, listen to how one urban school district uses digital badges to show student accomplishments while reducing the faculty’s time needed to track each student’s progress.

In this podcast, Catherine Rickert, Director of the Career and Tech Center is joined by David Niguidula, Founder of Richer Picture, and host Bill Carozza.

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Students often what to share their badges and portfolios with audiences outside of their school. In this episode, we talk about how students can set up their portfolios for this purpose. Typically, students set up a "tour" - a subset of the work they have collected - for the audience they have in mind. We'll discuss strategies for setting up tours for employers, college admissions or placement, and other audiences.

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As students complete their portfolios, how can they show off their accomplishments? In this episode, we discuss strategies for reviewing portfolios, from parent-teacher conferences to special end-of-year review sessions. You'll hear about how students can create "tours" of their best work and how they can demonstrate a school's vision of a graduate.

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Individual Learning Plans (also known as Personal Learning Plans or Student Success Plans) are common in schools across the country. Students set academic, career, college and personal goals. But what if students had a better way to keep track of their progress? In this episode, host Bill Carozza and David Niguidula discuss how Richer Picture can help students, counselors, parents and advisors set better goals - and track their progress.

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Developing a successful initiative such as implementing digital portfolios can be an exciting venture, but a favorable outcome is far from guaranteed without reflection and preparation. On today's show, Richer Picture founder David Niguidula and host Bill Carozza will discuss the factors you should consider when embarking on a new initiative in your school or district.

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How can digital badges help students express who they are as individuals? In this episode, Richer Picture founder David Niguidula and Bill Carozza discuss how students can demonstrate their skills and their interests with digital badges. 

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Students are learning all the time - and digital badges provide students an opportunity to show what they know. In this episode, host Bill Carozza talks with David Niguidula about how digital badges and portfolios can capture student experiences - and how the use of portfolios can help schools think differently about assessment. 

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CTE is all about helping students gain the skills they need - and Digital Badges can help students show what they know! Join our host, Bill Carozza, as he talks with David Niguidula, Founder of Richer Picture about new innovations in Career and Tech Education. 

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Welcome to the RicherPictureCast! 

In this podcast, you'll hear about exciting topics in education, and how students can show that they are meeting standards - while showing who they are as individual learners. In this opening session, our host, Bill Carozza, a long-time principal and educator, talks with David Niguidula, the Founder of Richer Picture about Digital Badges and Portfolios.