Developing student portfolios using Adobe Acrobat

Henrietta MillerStage 3 teacher and PYP Coordinator Roseville College

Who am I?@henriettami

Student workIn books - handwritten or worksheets

In folders – typed and printed

On class blog-

On student blog

In the cloud – We are a Google school with email and Google docs

Photographic evidence

Videos

How to organise it all?Adobe Acrobat provides a solution for all types

of documentsTyped and stored on the device or serverAny type of file

Excel, word, PDF, JPEgGroup projects stored in Google docsStudent blogsVideos from a device in Premiere Element, iMovie

or YouTubePhotographs stored on the school server or local

device

Screen shots showing student portfolios

One has the option of downloading a file, or finding more information about it

This button allows the reader to open the file with excel

Teaching Acrobat X to our Year 6 students

Taking them homeUpload to Google drive

Leave on our school server for access at home

Placed on a USB

Emailed – if not too large

This year- what will I do differently?

Create them earlier and add to them over time

Be more specific about creating folders for tasks

Use them for each of the six PYP transdisciplinary themes.

Use them as a reflective tool ask the student to choose work which shows

learning developing over time.