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Google Slides Portfolios

 I have a new Saturday morning ritual. I get up before the kids and make coffee and sit in the basement and grade portfolios. But it's actually fun. (unlike grading tests)

I am only 2 weeks and 4 slides in BUT THIS IS SO FUN! 

I was deeply inspired by Adele's (@mathinct678) Blog Post Here.  And as soon as I heard we were 1-1 I wanted to find a way to try this....

After each class (we meet twice a week virtually) students are responsible for creating 2 portfolio slides summarizing their learning. These are from a template that I share with them via Schoology (our LMS). 

Schoology makes it so easy to assign a Google Slide Presentation. It automatically copies my template into their google drives AND shares with me. When I grade I can do it through my Schoology account and I don't have to wade through the unorganized swamp that "Shared with Me" can become. I can comment in the Schoology Gradebook or Insert comments directly into the Slide Show. 

My first slide asked the kids to decorate their virtual lockers. It was cool to see their personalities emerge. 






Then we spent a class doing Math is Visual activities for Week of Inspirational Math. They created graphs about anything and it was again a cool way to get to know their interests. 




We spent time talking about Struggle and Motivation and the importance of making mistakes in math and I asked them to create slides reflecting our learning. I love the kid who took a screenshot of what we did in class and reflected on how he had to make mistakes to get it right. 




And finally we created slides to summarize our review of Integer Operations. I love that they can use the camera inside of google slides to upload images of their notebook. I love that I am getting to see their personality. 



I can't wait to see where this goes and how the portfolios grow. 

I am doing each unit separately (maybe each week) but Schoology has a cool feature that allows them to save work in a Schoology Porfolio so we can house it all there and merge later if if needed. 


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