Reflecting with the Middle School

Many of us like our students to reflect on the way they learn. It would be even more powerful if the reflections they do in different classes were all collected together in one place. We can do this now! It's often referred to as an e-portfolio.

Building on a great initiative from our Music, Theatre and Visual Arts colleagues, now all MS students have a blog in which they can write; make links; post images; embed audio or video. They then label the blogpost with the name of the subject and the blog will create a tab which collects all of their posts from just that subject.

For the students, it can be a very helpful tool for improving their learning skills. As we work to find a better LMS (which would hopefully include this sort of portfolio), we are keen that the skills the students are learning while blogging will be transferred to the new system (and the blogposts too).

If you would like to learn how to use this tool with your MS classes, please let Steve or Becky know and we will be happy to show you and visit your class to help you implement it.

Here is a short video showing how it works.