Wednesday, August 24, 2016

How to promote the Free Website Project in bookstores


This might be a helpful way of teaching parents about the Free Website Project.

Here's the message that I sent to the store.

Book Store
What a great idea! A facebook page for your store... i particularly like the employees Anson and Sarah and Ashlynn who are featured. I am a high school teacher and I want to train my studetns to have the smiles and online presence that you have. I've created a project that brings the FREE WEBSITE (digital portfolio) procedure from California to Florida. I will be in Melbourne either this weekend or next weekend. 
Is it possible to drop by your store for two or three hours to set up a table to answer questions that parents might have about "how to sue websites to improve your child's education"? 
It's a free program and I hope you will be the first place in Melbourne to support the process by allowing a display in your store for a few hours. 
I give away cards that show the steps to making a free website using a gmail account. my phone is 954 6468246 and I hope we can connect. 
I'll try calling sometime today. 
thank you Steve McCrea www.TinyURL.com/fwpstart and www.tinyurl.com/sunportfolios5 this is the free ebook and Createspace book that I got printed. I could also sell the book through your store.



The B and N bookstore in Melbourne has a delightful way of reaching out to the community with 


I have proposed a two-hour display with Q and A about Free Websites.

My students could learn from Ashlynn about how to write a novel

What are the procedures and methods to participate in a fantasy league?


Clearly this store organizes interesting activities


Saturday, August 20, 2016

What do College Students and College Professors say about Digital Portfolios?

"If what we want is to deepen learning and to facilitate transfer of knowledge, e-portfolios provide a strategy that allows students to archive their work over time."Here are some quotes from a website created by the AACU

College Professor
If what we want is to deepen learning and to facilitate transfer of knowledge, for the first time, e-portfolios provide a strategy that allows students to archive their work over time. The critical part is that they also use those artifacts for intentional and promoted reflection that supports connecting the learning across courses and disciplines and to their own lives and passions. In this way, e-portfolios become a scaffold of learning experiences from the curriculum and the cocurriculum that students use to demonstrate and articulate the increasing sophistication and complexity of their understanding and thinking throughout their educational career and beyond.
Judith Patton, associate dean,
School of Fine and Performing Arts, Portland State University



College Student
I didn’t know what an e-portfolio was when I first heard about it in class….My professor suggested to me that I develop the “about me” section of my e-portfolio because there, I would have the opportunity to write more about myself and so I did. In that first e-portfolio I wrote about Palmira (Valle), the city where I was born in Colombia, and I wrote about Medellin, where I used to spend my vacations of school….and I wrote about the cultural assimilation process I was going through.
The second time I was asked to develop my e-portfolio, I had a lot more to share. I was in third semester at LaGuardia and I had already taken most of the classes connected to my major, so I decided include my academic work and goals that would make my family proud of me….my priority was to focus on my personal growth in my schoolwork and what I was learning at LaGuardia. After putting up my projects in my e-portfolio, I then started to think more about my future and my career.
Now, with more knowledge of computer programs for developing Web pages, I decided to use my e-portfolio as an opportunity to show and demonstrate all the skills that I have learned throughout my journey at LaGuardia Community College….All together, my third e-portfolio demonstrates me as a professional who is looking toward her future and who has many goals to reach.
Not only have I gained technical skills, but I’ve learned how to express myself as a serious student and a hard worker. The different sections of my e-portfolio made me realize the important things about how I see myself starting at LaGuardia, how I see myself now and in my future. My experience with e-portfolio at LaGuardia has made me see more of whom I want to be and how I can accomplish my goals.
Student,
LaGuardia College

"The different sections of my e-portfolio made me realize the important things about how I see myself starting at LaGuardia, how I see myself now and in my future."

See more by clicking HERE

https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/periodicals/benefits-e-portfolios-students-and-faculty-their-own-words

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KEY POINT:  Office 365 users can use WIX to make free websites


Here's a way to make free websites in Office 365 using wix

Office 365 users can now create code-free websites without ever having to leave the confines of the program thanks to a partnership with Wix.com.
Office 365 subscribers will be able to select Wix.com to create and then launch an online presence from within the platform and it's even open to subscribers that already host a domain using Office 365 (which makes us wonder whether this has anything to do with Microsoft's decision to kill Sharepoint's Public Website feature).
Wix offers small businesses and individuals an extensive tool to create websites with hundreds of templates to choose from, a drag-and-drop website editor, mobile and e-commerce integration, and the chance to input business management apps from the Wix App Market.
Office 365 is a subscription-based alternative to the desktop-based version of Office, which is same way that Windows in the future after it announced plans to offer "Windows-as-a-service" through continuous updates to the platform.

http://tinyurl.com/office365wix

Friday, August 19, 2016

Where we can run an experiment at no cost to the school district?






Can the following experiment be done in a school?:  If ten students are shown the method ("how to make a free website") and if those students are shown websites made by students in California, would those students...
a) make their own sites
b)  keep materials on those sites
c)  show their friends how to make free websites?

Steve McCrea
Free Website Project
a free project
-- free videos
-- free platform (Google Sites)
-- free support for teachers (by phone and text, face to face, and by email)
(954) 646 8246

For additional reading


Digital portfolios are a great way to showcase work, share with others, and reinforce learning. CMU had good intentions for my teacher portfolio.  I felt the purpose was to get hired by showcasing my work and sharing it with possible employers.  Really it was to reinforce learning along the way to becoming a teacher.  David Niguidula 2005, has a great article called Documenting Learning with Digital Portfolios.  He states, “portfolios must be part of a purposeful assessment program with clear learning goals.”  He outlines essential questions that schools need to address before establishing a digital portfolio system.  Ultimately, his article should be used as a guideline when setting up your schools digital portfolios.    -- 
  C M Lindberg

As a school counselor, I could see using digital portfolios in two ways.  First, I could see high school students creating digital portfolios throughout high school and then finishing with a cumulative assessment at the end of their senior year. These are sometimes referred to as a Senior Capstone e-Portfolio.  By providing students with a way to showcase work they will have a clearer vision as a learner, find pride in their work, and share with possible colleges or employers.   C M Lindberg

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PURPOSE of a Free Website:
One of the reasons for keeping a blog or journal for science students is to have a place where students can capture and RETRIEVE previous thoughts.   

Where we can run an experiment at no cost to the school district?
Cost:  
The time spent by an administrator to set working conditions for the experiment.
Access to ten computers and the Internet

This experiment is already taking place at SunEd High Charter School in Margate and Oakland Park, Florida










For more Info
(954) 646 8246
ManyPosters@gmail.com

Important articles about "Why do high school students need free websites to collect their best academic work?"

A list of important articles about Digital Portfolios


The TIme Article
http://blogs.goucher.edu/intheloop/files/2016/04/The-Radical-New-Ways-Colleges-Are-Sizing-Up-Students.pdf

ZeeMee




The Locker





The KQED Article

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/03/22/what-will-digital-portfolios-mean-for-college-bound-students/





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Every Student Should Have A Digital Portfolio | Getting Smart

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