Showcase Porfolio - Artifact II

As part of continuing to learn as an educator, I remembered a few ideas from my previous class that I knew I wanted to try with my current students. I am grateful to have a small classroom of 20 students. This year's group is a good group and for the most part are eager to learn. They are also very inquisitive and competitve. I wanted them to see some form of their evolution in third grade. Here I thought I was going to have them create a learning portfolio, This type of portfolio would show how they have grown as readers, writers, mathematicians, etc. However after reading the article My Digital Portfolio Project Planning, I realized that because I didn't keep up with the process of showing growth, what I really had was more of a showcase digital portfolio. What this process doesn't show is that although I had good intentions of creating a learning portfolio, when the students went back to update their portfolio, they realized things they wanted to improve, made changes, and then showcased them. Isn't that part of growth? They reflected on what they had showcased, made corrections (learning), and updated their portfolios.

I've tried to get my students to have discussion or share ideas on Classroom Google. Here's a snippet of a discussion on the portfolios. I'm not sure if we need more practice on these discussions or if they are shy because they know I'm watching!

There are things I have to tweek but I will definitely use this next year!