by Amy Gwizdz | Sep 13, 2018 | Mahara, Transforming Education, Transforming Learning
As teachers, we know that providing feedback to students is extremely important to their success. Timely, actionable feedback provides students with the necessary tools they need to improve their learning. Now, that lesson is being passed down to our students at...
by Amy Gwizdz | Mar 19, 2018 | Mahara, Tech Coach Tip
Getting Your Feet Wet For those who may be unfamiliar, Mahara is our ePortfolio program, and has become very popular among teachers across the district. Mahara is a clean, bright platform used to display videos, pictures, and text. It can fully integrate with Google...
by Bob Harrison | Sep 20, 2017 | Mahara, Transforming Education
Today, teams of Bryant Middle School teachers got together to learn how to help students take their My Learning Plan (MLP) online. Over the next couple weeks, students will begin creating pages on Mahara, Dearborn’s ePortfolio system. These MLP pages will include...
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by Bob Harrison | May 22, 2017 | Mahara, Transforming Learning
This year, I’ve been working with an amazing team of sixth grade ELA teachers at Bryant Middle School to make the transition to implementing My Learning Plan on a digital platform using Mahara. Previously, the team was introduced to Mahara and some of the...
by Amy Gwizdz | Mar 31, 2017 | Mahara, Moodle, Transforming Education, Transforming Learning
We All Make Mistakes I recently read an article published on Shaelynn Farnsworth’s blog, entitled 6 Alternatives to Reading Logs. It piqued my interest because I remember assigning reading logs in my classroom, and how that plan didn’t always work out so...
by Bob Harrison | Nov 21, 2016 | Mahara, Transforming Education, Transforming Learning
Today, students in Joe Shannon’s 2nd hour history class at Fordson generated QR codes for their “My Learning Plan” Pages and submitted them to Mr. Shannon’s iLearn course. Mr. Shannon can now print the QR codes so students can place the code in...
