Sudha Konnanath's Blog (4)

Are student digital portfolios a realistic alternative to standardized tests? ‘Learning and Leading with Technology’s popular Point/Counterpoint section is looking for 500-word arguments on both sides of the question, "Are student digital portfolios a realistic alternative to standardized tests?" Please contact L&L Managing Editor Davis N. Smith (dsmith@iste.org ) if you are interested in advocating either side of this issue. Point/Counterpoint articles are relatively informal. If… Continue

The February issue of School Library Journal selected www.ourstories.org as site of the month. This site is an online story sharing jointly founded by UNICEF, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and Google. It is an interesting site as the students can record and publish the stories from their elders/storytellers or tell their own story. The site also has interview guidelines for students. It is worth exploring and may be our students can put Qatar on the Google… Continue

Though I like browsing the internet and trying my luck at the new technologies, what I love bestest (a word frequently used by my kids – I correct them, they just ignore me) is to curl on the couch with a book. So for book lovers like me….. We have added the following books to senior library professional collection. If you want them, please let me know ASAP. Already 2 books are loaned out. A copy of these will be available in the primary and ECE libraries by next week. 1) Blogs, wikis, podcas… Continue

A thank you note To Beverley – for permitting me to participate in the primary PD To Nerine – for inviting me to her group To all primary staff – for accommodating me within their group To Julie – for introducing us to the web2.0 world It all sounded so alien to me then. - but I really liked the idea of delicious and went ahead with it, - experimented with wiki, but didn’t have the guts to put it for public view - really liked netvibes as it brought together all un… Continue