Spaces – Capturing & Celebrating Student Growth

Curriculum Goals & & TagsCurriculum Goals & & Tags is another brand-new Spaces include for this year. Ive seen other digital portfolio services attempt to do something comparable, but none has made it as simple for instructors to implement as Spaces has.

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Three Reasons to Try Making Spaces Digital Portfolios.

Activities” Activities” is my favorite brand-new feature in Spaces. Activities are precisely what the name implies, activities that you can designate to your students to complete and add to their Spaces digital portfolios. And because Spaces offers group portfolios and individual portfolios, you can assign Activities to people or groups.

Head here to read more about Curriculum Goals & & Tags or see the video at the bottom of this post to see how easy it is to include Curriculum Goals & & Tags to your Spaces account

To import Curriculum Goals & & Tags into your Spaces account just sign into your account, select a class, then click “Curriculum Goals & & Tags “on the left hand side of the screen. Youll then see a search box pop-up where you can search for requirements sets according to province, organization, or state.

Curriculum Goals & & Tags lets you import sets of requirements with which you wish to “tag” your Activities. The sets of standards that are readily available to import is quite impressive. There are the normal state and province requirements frequently used by public schools in addition to requirements frequently utilized by private schools.

You can develop an Activity that is as easy or as complex as you would like. A simple Activity would be something like “connect an image of your marshmallow tower and describe what you d do differently next time.” An intricate Activity might be something like asking students to tape a brief video describing the bottom lines of a discussion theyre making and how those points line up with the standards youve assigned. Heres a list of some sample Spaces Activities.

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After youve picked the set of requirements that you wish to import into your Spaces class, you can then add requirements tags to your assignments in Spaces. This is a terrific method to help parents and trainees comprehend how an assignment lines up with a curriculum objective.

Spaces is a complimentary digital portfolio tool that launched earlier this year and has rapidly turned into one of my top recommendations for teachers and students who wish to bring Portfolio-based evaluation into their class. Since it came to my attention in the middle of the last school year, some teachers might not have actually tried it because they already had a digital portfolio in location. Now that the new school year is here, take an appearance at
Spaces and its lots of functions for students and instructors including some that were just launched for the brand-new school year.

To produce an Activity in Spaces just sign into your instructor account, select the class that you want to designate an Activity to, and then click the blue “create” button under the Activity heading in your account. Then all you have to do is compose the instructions for what you want your trainees to do. If you currently have directions written in Google Docs or Word, you can simply import those directions instead of by hand composing instructions in Spaces Activities. Spaces will even let you tape a video to describe the directions to your trainees. When trainees submit their Activities assignments you can examine them in your Spaces account simply like you can review any other items that they add to their portfolios.

Find out more about Spaces Activities right here or view my brief video at the bottom of this post to see the instructor and trainee point of views of Spaces Activities.

1. Ease of access.
As I composed earlier this year about.
Spaces, availability was one of its big selling points when I tried it for the very first time. Spaces supplies a way to make certain that the announcements, Activities, and feedback that you post for students can be accessed by them in a variety of ways.

When you publish in your class Space you can write it out, but you can also record audio and video messages to accompany that composed message. I can do that by writing a message and I can utilize Spaces built-in audio and video recording tools to post the same message.

Parent involvement.As I pointed to above, parents like to see what their children are working on and digital portfolios are a fantastic method to facilitate this. Moms and dads can be welcomed to see their childs Spaces portfolio. Welcoming moms and dads to view their childs portfolio also offers them with the opportunity to talk to their kid about what theyre finding out in school.

3. Group Portfolios.
One of the important things that makes Spaces rather unique in the digital portfolio space is that there is an integrated way to produce group portfolios within your class account. Your students can have individual portfolios where they show their private work, but they can likewise be a part of groups in which they share their work.

Once theyve joined, from your instructor control panel you can rapidly produce specific spaces for them to use. This video strolls you through the process of creating spaces for your trainees and this video shows the trainees viewpoint.

The much better use of group Spaces is as a location where students can share their work in progress and get feedback from each other as well as from their teacher.

Areas is a free digital portfolio tool that launched previously this year and has actually quickly ended up being one of my top recommendations for trainees and instructors who desire to bring Portfolio-based assessment into their class. Activities are exactly what the name suggests, activities that you can assign to your trainees to finish and include to their Spaces digital portfolios. Spaces will even let you record a video to describe the directions to your trainees. When trainees submit their Activities projects you can review them in your Spaces account simply like you can review any other items that they add to their portfolios.

You can designate students to specific group Spaces to share with each other and with you. The better usage of group Spaces is as a location where trainees can share their work in progress and get feedback from each other as well as from their teacher.

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