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Put simply, a digital footprint is what your students would see if they Googled themselves. And whether or not they know it, each of them has a footprint online. A digital footprint is made up of both passive information about Internet use and actively volunteered content.

Establishing a positive digital footprint involves more than educating our students about what they should choose to keep offline. We should also be teaching them what to publish to improve their digital image.

effective uses of student blogs engage others in meaningful conversations.

1.  Give them a blog.  

2.  Give them time.

3.  Give them post-its.

Formative assessments are simply little gauges or indicators of how students are progressing towards a learning goal

2) Real-Time Feedback

1) Ticket out the door

We should do less of spending money on assessment detached from designing learning and more of creating learning experiences that are irresistibly engaging."

"The integration of technology and pedagogy to maximize learning must meet four criteria. It must be irresistibly engaging; elegantly efficient (challenging but easy to use); technologically ubiquitous; and steeped in real-life problem solving."

"I hold out four criteria for integrating technology and pedagogy to produce exciting, innovative learning experiences for all students --something desperately needed to bring education into the 21st century. These new developments must be i) irresistibly engaging (for students and for teachers); ii) elegantly efficient and easy to use; iii) technologically ubiquitous 24/7; and iv) steeped in real-life problem solving."