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Professional Development Courses
* bulb Digital Portfolios is a TEA approved CPE provider.
Our live, online, and onsite bulb professional development courses will provide learning for specific educational focus areas that are relevant to what teachers and students need and are collaborative in nature. Learn the skills and know-how to successfully use digital portfolios flexibly, dynamically, and effectively in your district, school, and classroom.
Live, virtual PD
Live, online sessions are delivered right to your device, making training easy and convenient.
In-person, on-site PD
Our face-to-face sessions deliver an active-learning experience designed to build confidence and
knowledge about using bulb Digital Portfolios in the classroom.
Getting Started Courses
Get Started with Digital Portfolios
Learning Objectives:
1) Learn best practices for the use of digital portfolios with your students.
2) Create a plan for implementing DPs in your classroom.
3) Learn how to access templates, resources and find help within the bulb app.
4) Navigate and use tools and features in class to support collaboration and feedback with your students.
5) Create, share and publish your first page/collection.
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bulb Master Instructor Certification
Learning Objectives:
1) Clarify goals, vision, and benchmarks for measuring success.
2) Learn about resources available to support teachers and students.
3) Establish a solid understanding of features and functions.
4)Access and templatize resources provided to lead and support training.
5) Prepare your plan to train teachers.
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Get Started with Digital Portfolios for Students
Learning Objectives:
1) Understand the importance of digital portfolios and as it relates to digital citizenship and establishing a professional online presence.
2) Learn how to access templates, resources and find help within the bulb app.
3) Navigate and use tools and features in class.
4) Create, share and publish their first page/collection.
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bulb Refresher Course
Learning Objectives:
1) Learn how to navigate your asset library and implement best practices for organization of assets and artifacts.
2) Successfully create groups for classroom management and student engagement.
3) Discover how bulb integrates with your LMS and learn how to submit & grade assignments.
4) Build upon your knowledge of bulb and takeaway more resources, tips and tricks to make you an advanced user.
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Focus Areas Courses
Using Digital Portfolios for Career and Technical Education
Learning Objectives:
1) Learn how digital portfolios provide a lasting, portable digitized body of work.
2) Understand how a DP can show process, progress, & growth as well as provide a professional-looking portfolio.
3) Organize your work within your DP and how to easily publish and share publicly and/or privately your work.
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Using Digital Portfolios to Take Writers’ Notebooks to the Next Level
Learning Objectives:
1) Clarify goals, vision, and benchmarks for measuring success.
2) Learn about resources available to support teachers and students.
3) Establish a solid understanding of features and functions.
4)Access and templatize resources provided to lead and support training.
5) Prepare your plan to train teachers.
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Take Science Notebooking to the Next Level
Learning Objectives:
1) Understand the importance of digital portfolios and as it relates to digital citizenship and establishing a professional online presence.
2) Learn how to access templates, resources and find help within the bulb app.
3) Navigate and use tools and features in class.
4) Create, share and publish their first page/collection.
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Using Digital Portfolios for College & Career Readiness
Learning Objectives:
1) Learn best practices for the use of digital portfolios with your students.
2) Create a plan for implementing DPs in your classroom.
Learn how to access templates, resources and find help within the bulb app.
3) Navigate and use tools and features in class to support collaboration and feedback with your students.
4) Create, share and publish your first page/collection.
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Support Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom
Learning Objectives:
1) Define Social and Emotional Learning.
2) Explore why it matters.
3) Incorporate SEL in the classroom.
4) Access resources for learner reflection that can be included in digital portfolios.
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Using Digital Portfolios in Blended Learning Environments
Learning Objectives:
1) Pre-assessment strategies to give educators the opportunity to evaluate students' readiness for new learning, allowing educators to appropriately plan their instruction.
2) Instruction and learning strategies that can be completed in a digital portfolio to help educators start their digital portfolio practice.
3) Review examples, templates, and other resources that can be completed in a digital portfolio to help identify when a student is demonstrating mastery.
4) How to track and measure the success of a blended learning environment using digital portfolios.
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Make Professional Growth Visible
Learning Objectives:
1) Learn how to create dynamic evidence to document your journey.
2) Find resources that you can use throughout the school year to reflect in your digital portfolio.
3) Administrators and coaches will also find helpful tips to foster educator growth throughout the school year.
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Using Digital Portfolios in the Elementary Classroom
Learning Objectives:
1) Learn best practices for introducing elementary age students to digital portfolios.
2) Get practical tips for using DPs on a daily or weekly basis with your young learners.
3) Explore fun templates from our library that you can use immediately with your students to create, reflect, & demonstrate their learning.
4) Prepare your plan to train teachers.
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