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"How do digital portfolios help students learn? Where is the evidence that this assessment strategy actually supports improved teacher practice and increased student achievement? Why should teachers "do" digital student portfolios in the first place, since they are not required? How do performance and progress portfolios "mesh"?" Digital student portfolios can provide what other assessment tools cannot: Real, unabridged, minimally processed artifacts of learning that make sense to all the learners in the classroom, including the teacher. Technology used in this way can bring us as close as we can get to peering inside our students' hearts and minds to find out what they currently know and are able to do.

An excellent blog post by Matt Renwick, author of 'Digital Student Portfolios" with several examples using Evernote! Great followup to our ADE webinar on Evernote with Chris Giles.

Digital Skills Matrix for students

COPPA Compliance and Digital Tools

Make online posters (similar to Smore)

"Submitted by Fiona Beal After looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions this week, these were the ten that caught my eye. " Tips for Google Docs, Slides, Chrome Extensions, Google Earth Pro (now free!), Classroom, YouTube, and using Google Drive offline

Great tips and tutorials for Google tools!

SAMR Model and App cross-section