I'm glad to hear that Pat is interested in digital portfolios because this is what I'd like to do as a project also. I have already talked to Sue L. about ways we could begin this fall. She is a techie too but as a single mom, it's hard for her to get involved with lots of afterschool stuff.
We want to identify which curriculum areas we want to document and begin to take lots of pictures and notes about those pictures. We already use my camera quite often in the classroom. We know that we need to get into the habit of downloading the pictures to the computer daily , or maybe even between sessions. We'd create a folder for each child and then organize the pictures each week into folders. We keep a notebook of general classroom observations and we could use this to note something about the picture each time we take one. We would also want other adults in our classroom to use the camera as well, since there would be opportunities to record something with them as well.
Perhaps we could work together on this and if Sherri comes on board (with Pat's help) we could begin ongoing portfolios for several kiddos. I want to do this with typical and identified students. I also know that we most likely can't tackle this with all of the class. ...but who knows. I'd also want some video in there too.
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Hey Pat - I've arranged with these folks to contact them in August. They are going to send me more about their work, including the CD since they already have a release for the one they used at the poster session. I know they used video and I'm hoping to use the video aspect of my camera. I will have to order a larger memory card through school to handle the video. I spoke with the people who did the poster session a few times during the conference and they are very easy to work with and are glad to help.Their classroom is under construction this summer and won't be able to get to their things until the fall.
You know the camera video angle is interesting. I'm not sure where I heard it, but someone that week was talking about the under utilized aspect of short videos with regular digital cameras. I have done some work with regular digital video. Rod has done much much more. The problem is that a lot of footage means 10 times as much editing. Small clips might be easier to handle. What kind of video card to you need? I can keep an eye out for a good deal.
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