Students had their first experience with their personal ePortfolio sites.  Their initial posts were very simple in appearance but were, in actuality, a real learning experience for them.

We had explored the ePortfolio site on Wednesday afternoon during our Computer Lab time but we ran out of time before we could publish the first post.

As the grade two students were more experienced on the computers (from our lessons last year), on Thursday morning they became ‘experts’ on the logging in process for the ePortfolio sites.  Then, throughout the day on our two class computers, they took turns teaching the grade ones how to log in (both onto the class blog and then onto their own site) and how to create a simple post using a header (Hello!) and adding in a simple sentence in the text box (My name is ____.).

This simple post gave students an opportunity to learn to use some of the keyboard functions such as: shift (for the capital letters and the exclamation point), space bar (between the words), the period, and the letters for the words.  These are their first steps in becoming more comfortable with, and more capable of using, the computer as a tool to share their learning experiences.

I hope that the MailPoet app worked and that you got notification of their post.   When you log in to see your child’s post please remember to change the generic password to your own personal one.

Thank you for your continuing support of your child’s learning.