An Old Story About Digital Badges and Why Kids Like Them
In the last two weeks since I published a video about creating a badge tracker in Google Sheets, I’ve told the following story from May of 2015 three times to people who have asked for my opinion about digital badges and whether or not they’re worthwhile.
ClassDojo Adds an Events Feature
This week ClassDojo introduced a new feature that, according to Twitter responses, seems to be exciting for many teachers who use ClassDojo. The new feature is called Events and it lets teachers post event notices for parents to see in the ClassDojo app and website. ClassDojo even handles sending automated reminders of the events that […]
5 Good Options for Making Digital Portfolios
In yesterday’s Practical Ed Tech post I mentioned that if you have been using a service like SeeSaw all year to have students create digital portfolios, it is relatively easy to have students create an end-of-year showcase of their best work. Of course, SeeSaw isn’t the only way to create a digital portfolio. Here’s are […]
A New and Easy ClassDojo Login for Students
Earlier this fall ClassDojo added new features to their digital portfolio tools for students and teachers. The highlight of those was the option for students to select the items that they want included in their portfolios. ClassDojo calls these student-led portfolios. Today, ClassDojo added a new way for students to sign into their portfolios. Beginning […]
Three Digital Portfolio Styles – And Tools for Making Them
This post originally appeared in my Practical Ed Tech Newsletter and on my Practical Ed Tech website. This week I am working with a group of teachers who want to have their middle school students create digital portfolios that they will maintain throughout the school year. The first part of our work will be to […]
Three Good Options for Digitizing Your Students’ Physical Work
Whether it’s a model made for a science fair or a paper on which a student successfully solved a complex math problem, there are times when we want to save a copy of physical work to use in digital portfolios. The following three tools are great for taking a picture of a student’s physical work, […]
ClassDojo Releases Three New Features for the New School Year
If you’re a ClassDojo user, you should have recently received an email about three new features that have been added for the 2018-19 school year. One of those features is significant and two are just convenient. The significant update is found in ClassDojo’s new Student Portfolios service. This free service was announced at the end […]
ClassDojo Introduces a New Digital Portfolio Option
For the last couple of years ClassDojo has offered a digital portfolio feature called Student Stories. This summer ClassDojo is introducing a new portfolio option called simply ClassDojo Portfolios. The new ClassDojo Portfolios will be student-led portfolios. Students will choose the items that they want to include in their portfolios. They can include pictures, documents, […]
ClassClimate – Know How Your Students Feel During the Day
ClassClimate is a new service that is designed to help teachers keep track of how their students are feeling during the day, week, and month. The service is rather simple and easy to use. Students simply sign into ClassClimate and click the word(s) that describe how they are feeling. You can create a class or […]
Student Stories Drawings in ClassDojo
Student Stories is ClassDojo’s student portfolio tool that they launched around this time last year. A few weeks ago I gave a run-down of new features that are going to be added to ClassDojo’s Student Stories tool for the new school year. One of those features is an option for students to draw or annotate […]
9 Features of ClassDojo’s Digital Portfolio Platform – Coming Soon
About this time last year ClassDojo introduced a digital portfolio platform that they call Student Stories. Since its initial launch ClassDojo has steadily added new features to Student Stories. Today, ClassDojo announced nine features that will be available for the start of the new school year. 1. User names and passwords are no longer required […]
4 Updates to ClassDojo’s Student Stories
Last fall ClassDojo introduced a new digital portfolio tool that they call Student Stories. Initially, it was only available on iPads then it expanded to users of all types of computers and tablets. Student Stories puts students in charge of assembling their portfolios. Their portfolios can include digital work as well as physical work that […]
Mindful Movements With ClassDojo
Since its launch last year ClassDojo’s Big Ideas series has steadily grown in size. This month ClassDojo added to the series with a new collection of videos and activities organized around the idea of mindfulness. The Mindfulness series is a set of videos and activities that were designed in partnership with Yale University’s Center for […]
5 Good Ways for Students to Create Digital Showcases of Their Work
As I look at dreary weather outside my window it doesn’t feel like the end of the school year is near, but it is getting near for many people. The end of the school year is when many of us start to think about summative activities for our students to do to show what they […]
ClassDojo Messenger Now Offers Scheduling
ClassDojo users may have recently noticed a new option within ClassDojo Messenger. You can now schedule messages to be sent at a later time. This convenient option will let you set a schedule for homework reminders, encouraging notes, or school event reminders to be sent out at intervals of your choosing. Over the last couple […]
Student Stories – ClassDojo Portfolios on Chromebooks, Desktops, and Mobile Devices
A few months ago ClassDojo introduced a new portfolio feature called Student Stories. At the time of its launch Student Stories was only available to use on mobile devices. This morning, ClassDojo announced that Student Stories can now be created on Chromebooks, MacBooks, and Windows computers. Basically, if it has a camera, your students can […]
ClassDojo Launches a New Series of Videos About Empathy
Earlier this year ClassDojo launched a new video series that they called Big Ideas. The first videos in the series were all about growth mindset. The videos proved to be extremely popular as they were all viewed hundreds of thousands of times. Next week ClassDojo is releasing some new videos in their Big Ideas series. […]
Student Stories – Student-led Portfolios on ClassDojo
Over the last few years ClassDojo has become known as a platform for keeping track of your students’ habits and behaviors. Originally, it appealed to teachers of elementary school students but over time teachers of older students started to use to keep track of things like constructive participation in classroom discussions. Last summer ClassDojo introduced […]
Classroom Heroes Looks Like a New Tool for Recording Classroom Activities
Classroom Heroes is a new service that seems similar in concept to ClassDojo. Classroom Heroes lets you make a record of your students’ behaviors in your classroom. The service also gives you a place to record homework assignments. You can share those records with your students and their parents through SMS and email. Like ClassDojo, […]
How to Add Custom Avatars to ClassDojo
In my previous post I shared the news about ClassDojo’s new feedback option. In that post I referenced my YouTube channel having some ClassDojo tutorials. The most popular of those tutorials is How To Use Custom Avatars in ClassDojo. The video is embedded below. Applications for Education Using custom avatars in ClassDojo can provide you […]
ClassDojo Introduces a New Feedback Option
ClassDojo is a popular tool for giving students feedback on class participation, behavior, and for keeping parents informed about classroom news. The feedback mechanism for teachers is to award points to students. Today, ClassDojo introduced a new “no points” feedback option. This option allows teachers to confirm that students did something, but doesn’t assign a […]
ClassDojo Presents a New Series of Videos on Growth Mindset
A few months ago ClassDojo published a series of videos about growth mindset. Those video, produced in association with Stanford University’s Project for Education Research That Scales, were accompanied by discussion guides to use with students and their parents. The series proved to be popular so ClassDojo has announced the launch of a second series […]
Growth Mindset – Big Ideas for the Classroom
Last month ClassDojo launched a new video series that they are calling Big Ideas. The series is all about growth mindset as it pertains to classrooms. The series introduces students, parents, and teachers to big ideas or trends in education. ClassDojo’s Big Ideas does this through the use of videos and accompanying discussion guides. The […]
ClassDojo’s Big Ideas Teaches Kids About Growth Mindset
ClassDojo has launched a new initiative that they are calling Big Ideas. The purpose of Big Ideas is to introduce students, parents, and teachers to big ideas or trends in education. ClassDojo’s Big Ideas does this through the use of videos and accompanying discussion guides. The first series in ClassDojo’s Big Ideas series is all […]