Choir Baton Podcast Episode 34. Your Dress Rehearsal Opportunity...
Apr 13, 2020
While you can't give your singers in the Spring of 2020 a final end of the year or semester concert as a culminating experience of the work they've done, I do believe you can provide a unique opportunity to reflect, showcase, and remember their year. Digital Portfolios, my friends. Yes, digital portfolios. Before you dismiss this idea - stay with me. A portfolio is a product that ultimately shows either your best work or how your work has progressed over time. This podcast is an example of a form of a digital portfolio. Listen to the progression of episodes and you'll (hopefully) see how I've grown as an interviewer.
This episode is a mix of a 2020 "there are four reasons why you should be exploring digital portfolios now" clip and a 2017 presentation I gave at the North Carolina Music Educators Conference on the same topic. I'll breakdown how, why, and what - and give you examples of what your students can put in them. Similarly, the April Mini-Course in the Teaching Membership also provides a further in-depth guide to implementing them. I firmly believe now is the time to begin experimenting who digital portfolio implementation. This is your dress rehearsal opportunity.
Here's the thing, why not use the digital content singers are creating during virtual learning and starting to organize it on a site that they can reference a year from now and show how they've grown? A digital portfolio isn't the current solution to online learning in the classroom, it is the long-term solution to assessing student growth and achievement, regardless of whether we're teaching in schools or online.
And note, I know not every school has digital portfolio capabilities. I address ideas you can take to doing a hard-copy of a portfolio, too.
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Choir Baton Host: Beth Philemon | Choir Baton Podcast Producer: Maggie Hemedinger
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