Summer Science: Technology in the form of a blog.

One topic I like to blog about is technology, especially for home-school families.  Many home-school families have iPads.  Let's talk about a few ways to use them.  One, does your family blog?  I have may teen students create blogs.  I often have them create videos, upload them to Youtube, and import the videos to their blog.  BTW, this is another form of assessment.  When my teens were videoing and explaining physical science problems, I would review the video for accuracy.  If the kids forgot to mention units or their math was off, I would have them redo the video.  Because the kids had an audience, the public blogosphere, they took the videos seriously.  Blogs can be part of a portfolio.  I recommend taking loads of photos whenever you do an activity and create digital records saved to Google Drive.  This will make it so much easier to compile a portfolio in June.