Portfolio class ideas…I want to include something about weblogs in the classroom in my Practices’ Assessment for the Teacher Portfolio Class so I need to really start thinking about implementation. I’m thinking the best/most easily adaptable would be to compare oral feedback with written, online feedback. What if in J1 I had a team blog for the class to post to. They get points for posts about breaking news, interesting stories they find, requests for feedback…(It would be so cool to have two blogs on the page, one above the other. The one above for me to post updates to, the one below for class discussion and requests, etc. Almost like frames.) They get points for giving feedback, responding to other posts, etc. They also use the weblog to keep track of their time in class. And they use it to follow and research their beats. Remember, they are going to be creating a site around their blogs or with their blogs or something. A site…which has to contain an overview of what happened with their beats over the nine week period, some specific reportage that they liked/disliked etc., links, pictures, etc. (I obviously need to start thinking about beats…would be nice if they chose something they wanted, but I also need to make sure they pick something that they’ll be able to follow for eight weeks.)