Over the years I have come to know Matt Renwick, fellow WI Principal known as @ReadbyExample on Twitter, as a wise literacy leader and tech guru that I love to learn from. As our school continued to add technology and then implemented our 1:1 iPad program this year, he was a colleague that often shared resources with me; resources that he had created to help his teachers learn how to use their iPads for both teacher and student use. So, when I heard that he was writing a book about their (school) experience of using Digital Portfolios I was ecstatic for him and eager to read the book to learn even more from him!
I’m humbled to have been one of his first readers and even more so to have had the opportunity to co-write the forward to his book along with Curt Rees. We both agreed that this book is a fantastic resource for teachers to utilize the power of the technology at hand to focus on documenting student learning in digital format as they focus on individual student progress and respond to their students’ needs. In this book, Matt shares real examples of great learning among his teaching staff, along with steps they took that didn’t work, but they learned from them and moved forward. What’s even better is there are several links to video clips throughout the book so you can learn from screencasts or see examples of digital/audio content of their students. You can find some of these digital resources from his book HERE on his blog.
Where can you find Matt’s book? Go HERE to order his book. Happy Reading!
I love your enthusiasm about Matt’s book! I will be sharing about it in my course I’m taking right now about writing across the curriculum. We can ALL have our students write, no matter the subject area, and with digital portfolios, it can all be put in ONE place! Love it!! Thanks, Jessica. 🙂
Thank you Jessica for being a part of the blog tour. I know the work you do with authentic learning and digital tools in your school is a great example of thoughtful, learning leadership. Honored!