21st Century Digital Portfolios through Sakai

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21st Century Digital Portfolios through Sakai

• Making it Work with Sakai

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Theresa Schneiderheinze and Pat Connors S.A.U.
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• tschneiderheinze_at_sau53.org
• pconnors_at_sau53.org

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New Hampshire I.C.T. Standards

• State law requires an integrated approach to the
  use of 21st century tools.
• Develop ethical and responsible use of technology
  tools
• Use with core subject areas
• Develop cognitive proficiency
• Develop technological proficiency
• with hardware, software
• and network
• Create and maintain
• digital portfolios

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Local school board provide opportunities for
students to demonstrate I.C.T. Competencies
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What is Sakai?

• A Collaborative Learning Environment (C.L.E.)
• Course management system comprised of multiple
  Web 2.0 tools
• An Open Source Portfolio (O.S.P.) system

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Who is using it in New Hampshire?
SAU1 Conval School District SAU10 Derry
Cooperative School District SAU21 Winnacunnet
SAU37 Manchester School District SAU41 Hollis
SAU53 Pembroke/Epsom/Deerfiled/Chichester/Allenst
own School District SAU74 Barrington School
District SAU88 Lebanon School District New
District - SAU 59 Winnisquam Regional New
District - Newfound Area School District New
District - Kearsarge Regional School District
Coming Soon, our first non NH district - Windsor
Southeast Supervisory Union, VT
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S.A.U. 53 Digital Portfolio History(Where We
Were)

• Each district created their own protocols for
  digital portfolio submission and storage that met
  their own needs.
• Five school districts feed into Pembroke Academy,
  a common shared system needed to be put into
  place.

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21st Century Portfolio Landing Page
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21st Century Learning Matrix
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Artifact Submission Form
This form allows for student reflection on the
use of technology including the standards met in
specific content areas. Included is an area to
determine if the idea of the artifact is student
generated or teacher assigned
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Sample Portfolio
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Benefits To Sakai As A Portfolio Solution

• Sakai provides an all in one solution
• Easily manageable by teachers and students
• Matrix organizes information at each grade level
• Matrix generates showcase portfolio
• Sakai portfolio is scaleable to meet specific
  school/district needs
• Students are engaged and invested in their
  personal learning history

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What S.A.U. 53 has done in the past year!

• Implemented 6th 8th grade pilot of the O.S.P.
• Integrated Sakai with existing network log on.
• Encouraging exploration of Sakai C.L.E. in all
  grade levels throughout the S.A.U. (Over 200
  project groups have been established.
• Extend portfolio project to high school and other
  grades.
• Add state NETS rubric.
• Budget - we have expended approximately 5,000 -
  7,000 for a consultant service for Sakai.

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Beyond S.A.U. 53 K-12 NH Sakai Collaborative

• Comprised of 12New Hampshire School Districts.
• A collaborative initiative to pool resources to
  support each districts needs
• Established a hosted solution for each district
  through Mainstream (www.mainstream.net)
• Established preliminary collaboration with
  Vermont.

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Other Portfolio Sessions At Christa McAuliffe

• A Look at ePortfolio Solutions Across NH
• A panel discussion of the variety of electronic
  portfolio solutions being used in New Hampshire.
• Thursday 10am Bistro 1

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If you have any questions

• Please contact
• Theresa Schneiderheinze
• Or
• Pat Connors
• tschneiderheinze_at_sau53.org
• pconnors_at_sau53.org