Overview of bulb Digital Portfolios. Prepare your students for the future. Everyone loves bulb because our portfolios show what you know, showcase your smarts, and demonstrate your accomplishments.
Thank you for inviting me here today.
I AM VERY EXCITED TO INTRODUCE YOU TO bulb.
bulb is a safe and secure K-Life digital portfolio solution that is beautiful, easy to use and a powerful tool
for students, teachers and administrators. bulb is a platform where users can not only create, share and showcase their smarts,
but it is also a place where users can reflect, demonstrate growth, show evidence of learning which provides a better opportunity when applying for jobs, scholarships and college.
For those of you who are learning about bulb for the first time today, I would like to play a short 1 minute overview video.
bulb offers you unlimited iCloud storage, unlimited groups, unlimited collections and unlimited, pages.
AND one of the things that districts and users love most about bulb is that bulb is for life.
We believe that your work should always be your own and available to you not matter where you teach or learn. In other words, no matter what type of device you are using OR if you are moving districts, grade level, or graduating – your wrok will always be available in this beautiful format and go with you. Users never lose their work year-to-year or after they graduate. This allows users to continue to grow their bulb whether they are at a new school district, a college, a trade school or in a career. Your bulb content is never deleted or left behind.
Let me show you some great examples of how bulb is used.
Kaden Jones – is a soon to be 2nd grader. Bulb is designed to be able to grow with the students…a true K-12 and beyond digital portfolio. Notice how Kaden has personalized his portfolio…this builds that sense of pride in work…
SHOW –
Reading | Kindergarten | Kinder – Reading progression over time - confidence
Social Studies – multiple media types – love the background noise
Derrell Walker is a High school student – notice how he has his subject areas as collections….another way that we are seeing a lot of our districts organize is by “6 key skills of a successful graduate” and then tracking mastery of these skills at each grade level….also notice how Derrell has included his band and college…
SHOW –
Career Expoloration….
11th grade SS….1960’s….discuss the embeds of multiple media types…each page, collection has a unique url which allows users to set visibility rights on every page or collection they create.
We see Teachers use bulb in a couple of ways
To push out lessons – SHOW – smileitscoon
Like their students…for professional growth and learning – SHOW - jessajones
[Build a bulb page]
Group setup
Commenting
In-line commenting
Sharing options – publish to an audience it creates a sense of ownership
[Questions]
We would love to partner with you to be your k-12 whole child, SEL, formative and summative assessment, college and career readiness, digital application, real world connections solution.