Week 7: Bulb Digital Portfolio





I have stumbled through many digital portfolios throughout my career trying to find the best one to display my student's work. Recently I found Bulb. What I like about Bulb is that you can set up pages for each class, or even pages for clubs or resources you want to showcase. Here is a link to the beginning of my journey on Bulb: Thompson's Bulb Digital Portfolio.  If you click on my Art Contest Page you will see the start of my Digital Portfolio journey. The website is here Bulb App.

In my research for this, I have found that districts are using this for all subjects. Some are using it like infographics. Since we just talked about some infographics, I thought this might be another tool to add to the Ed Tech toolbox.  The final products can be shared with most LMS districts are using for Virtual Learning with a shared link once the pages are published. You can also embed voice, URLs, videos, images, and text into your pages. 
You can choose to keep your pages private and only share with other users on Bulb or people with links, much like Google Docs. Or you can set your pages or collections to the public. This option is up to you once you publish your material. 
What I think would be a great tool is starting to use this with younger students and having them carry their Digital Portfolios with them all the way through their education. And since it is web-based, if students move to another district, their information is not lost. It is personal to them and can be carried over to where they move next. There is no expiration on how long items can be kept on the website. There is definitely a pathway here for Blended Learning.

I am also going to highlight how you can set up pages with templates, almost like you would in your LMS, for each level, High School, Middle, and Elementary: 

Tutorials





Comments

  1. Barbara AndersenFebruary 16, 2021 at 3:02 PM

    Wow! That looks super cool. I am constantly amazed at all of the tools available to us. I am definitely going to check this out and also share it with our art teacher here.
    Thanks!
    ~Barbara (Week 7)

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  2. Kayla Miller's Tech Leadership BlogFebruary 17, 2021 at 11:24 AM

    This is very interesting! I have not heard of this before, and I feel this would be extremely helpful for special area teachers. I appreciate that you included the image of student's remote learning journey and tutorials! Very helpful!
    - Kayla Miller (Week 7)

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  3. Jenny KellyFebruary 21, 2021 at 2:41 AM

    This is intriguing. I have always liked the idea of using portfolios for student work, but haven't really ever gotten my ideas together to make it happen. This looks like a really doable way to incorporate portfolios into a class. The template idea makes it easier to wrap my head around. I'm definitely going to look into this one more closely.
    -Jenny Kelly (week 7)

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  4. Pi's Math Technology BlogFebruary 22, 2021 at 2:43 PM

    Tara, this is the first time I have heard of bulb and I am very intrigued. We are actually doing a black history month display(???) virtually ( double ???) and I bet it would be much easier to use a something like bulb where all the content is already compiled versus having students share their screens on google meet, etc.

    I don't normally do displays of things so I wouldn't have much use of this app, but I am so interested in it that I might make an assignment up just to mess with it. Thanks for teaching me something new! -Jackie Pi W7

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  5. Tara ThompsonFebruary 23, 2021 at 1:06 PM

    I am glad you all enjoyed this tool! i am just beginning to touch the surface on this one. But I will keep you updated.

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  6. Dr. ThomasMarch 3, 2021 at 9:00 AM

    Tara,
    You received a positive response from your peers on this tool. I like the suggestion for infographics. Is there a cost?

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    1. Tara ThompsonMarch 3, 2021 at 11:12 AM

      Hi Dr. Thomas,
      No, this is a completely free website!

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