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Are you using Twitter? I am continuously amazed at the access to information this tool provides. Follow your favorite practitioners, authors, and organizations, including @NCDA. See you online!
@Melissa_Venable

Please take a look at my Blog! I write mosly about distance education, instructional design, and instructional technology in higher education. My interests also include providing student services, particularly career services, to online students.

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Received an email from Dr. Barrett with the following:

I am embarking on a new form of research, to be conducted online.

Participation is open to K-12 teachers or teacher educators. To be a full participant in this open action research project, teachers need to do the following:

1. Set up a new blog to document your process of implementing ePortfolios with your students. Use Blogger, WordPress, Edublogs, or any blog that has RSS feeds. Send your blog address to Dr. Barrett by

email: eportfolios@gmail.com. In this private email, describe your context (grade level/subject, type of school, state where you are located, whether you are urban, suburban or rural, etc.).

2. Create a blog entry that outlines your goals for implementing portfolios with your students - and create a web page that describes those goals for both students and parents. This web page could be on your school web space, or a Web 2.0 space such as Google Sites. Send the web page address to Dr. Barrett by email, when you get it posted.

3. Maintain weekly blog entries about the process, including what you did, what your students did, examples of instructional materials that you used (or developed). Dr. Barrett will follow your RSS feed and will respond as time permits by commenting on your blog.

4. This Google Group on K12 ePortfolios will be used to support teachers participating in the project. In this group, Dr. Barrett will post suggestions and answer questions about the ePortfolio development process using Web 2.0 tools. Due to limited time and resources, answers will be limited to the use of blogs, wikis, GoogleApps and other free Web 2.0 tools, not on using commercial or open source tools. The primary communication will be through email posts to the group. (This group is now moderated to avoid spam.)

5. For those who like to Twitter, use the following tag #web2eportfolios or join the group: http://www.twibes.com/group/web2eportfolios

6. Use the following resources to support implementation of ePortfolios in K-12 schools:

http://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioswp/ (ePortfolios with WordPress or Edublogs, developed by Dr. Helen Barrett) http://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioapps/ (ePortfolios with GoogleApps--Docs & Sites, developed by Dr. Helen Barrett) http://sites.google.com/site/reflection4learning/(Reflection for Learning -- ideas for scaffolding reflection in ePortfolios developed by Dr. Helen Barrett and others)

7. If you are alone in your school, trying to implement ePortfolios, find a partner and get your principal's support! My previous research shows that it really takes a school team and strong leadership to effectively implement ePortfolios. Let's see what we all learn together!

If you maintain weekly blog entries, you may schedule regular Skype conversations with Dr. Barrett to discuss your specific implementation strategies, issues and concerns.

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1. 8/22/09 - Article about "Don't make career plans - "... That’s why it’s so necessary not to hold onto your plans, opinions, and beliefs with such strictness that you can’t change and adapt ..." - (Read member's comments)

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1. 12/23/09 - #969-Quit avoiding your destiny
2. 11/28/09 - Interesting forum topic about "What is my life's purpose"?
3. 6/29/09 - What is my Destiny!?!! “If you want to make God laugh, then tell Him what your plans are.”

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1. 6/21/09 -abc "Pink slips become permission slips"

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Welcome to LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) .

The LWPS Team seeded this - your personal - blog with this post so that you could see it when you clicked on "Your Blog" in the far upper left corner of this webpage.

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Welcome to LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) .

The LWPS Team seeded this - your personal - blog with this post so that you could see it when you clicked on "Your Blog" in the far upper left corner of this webpage.

Please read this post about "Why is creating lifework/career planning posts in my personal blog so important?".

To create another post, just click the "Post a new entry" link in the upper left corner of this post above the iconic silhouetted image with the question mark "?". (More about creating posts.)

Please COPY this post to your personal blog and tell us how you found LWPS and what you hope to get out of it.

This is your post to do with as you please or to leave it as it is. When you are ready, just click the "Edit" link below and make any changes you wish.

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