Keli, I’m honoured that you will be using these examples with the teachers you work with, I hope they go on to do even better things with VoiceThread.

Mary, these portfolios were just done by my classroom, but I recently shared the idea and examples with the rest of the elementary school. I hope many more teachers take it on as a way for students to reflect on their learning and share their “stuff” with their family. We took about two solid weeks of all our literacy time (1 hour a day), a couple of afternoons (1 hour at a time) during the two weeks, plus some scripting set for homework, to complete the portfolios. This year we plan to be adding pages as the year progresses so this is completely embedded into our classroom practice.

Cathy, thanks for your suggestion about identities – I’d taught the students about identities when we previously used VoiceThread but we completely forgot about it when we did these portfolios!

Paula, thanks for leaving comments – that was exciting for everyone!

Kudos to you!

~ Keli Kinsella
Instructional Coach
Office of Professional Development
Cherry Creek Schools

I left comments on both VT and hope they get reinforcement from others as well. In fact when I do this next year I am going to make getting feedback from someone other then a parent a part of the project. I can envision the principal, past and future teachers, neighbors, other relatives and even peers being invited to add comments.

Thanks for an inspiring way to use VoiceThread.