Concord scioware™ is a rich Web 2.0 education platform. At its core, and underpinned by personalized learning plans, is a digital portfolio which provides students and teachers with their own personal space for 21st century learning, teaching and professional development. From their space, students and teachers selectively share digital content and collaborate with defined target audiences, for any purpose, at any time, anywhere in the world. The major scioware™ modules are:
Student Portfolios provide an online space for students to collect and display their curricular, co-curricular, extra-curricular and personal development achievements.
Teacher Portfolios provide a personal space that allows teachers to collect and display evidence of ongoing professional development. Linked to locally defined standards, they provide evidence of attainment and maintenence of professional competiencies. Teacher portfolios that support ongoing professional development are playing an increasingly important role in facilitating learning by teachers, and in demonstrating the outcomes of practitioner research and reflection into teaching practice.
Incorporating individually managed personal storage spaces, portfolios provide students and teachers with a private and secure location for storing assignments, projects, PD material, extra-curricular achievements and other important artifacts. The integrated Display Portfolios assembly and publishing area, linked directly to assessments, learning plans and personal storage, provides students and teachers with the ability to create and display attractive digital portfolios for family, employer, and other target audiences.
Assessments, presented as an active matrix, are windows to individuals' academic tasks. Coordinators and teachers are able to drill into and review each student's tasks in their extended essays, assessments and coursework at any time from any where. They can add comments, grade and instantly update a student's progress through each task, automatically capturing dialogue and providing a dynamic, informative avenue for evaluating student activities.
Learning Plans, presented as an active matrix, display and planned course of study and related progress over a period of time. Coordinators and teachers are able to drill into and review each student's plan and check progress at any time from any where. They can add comments, grade and instantly update a student's assessments fed into their plans progress through each task, automatically capturing dialogue and providing a dynamic, informative avenue for evaluating student plan progress.
Reflection, journalling and communication options are available through personal and team blogs, while evidence to support student assessment, evaluation criteria, grading, and teacher competency are managed in active assessment matrices. Showcasing allows your school to publicly display selected achievements to the community or other interested parties.
Easy to use and providing attractive professional display options for all regardless of skill level, portfolios become the hub for student, teacher and parent sharing using a variety of Web 2.0 tools.