Blogging to document children's learning

This centre uses blogger like you would not believe...I was so impressed with how they were using it I was asking Katrina for a few 'how to tips'. The children's learning is recorded through observation and published to their own individual blog. These are shared with families and the administration functions are shared with families so they can share the observations with the wider family and friends. You can see the tags/labels down the right hand side of the photo - the teachers tag each post entry so that if you wanted to track a particular series of learning areas or goals you could. I like that idea. All the informtion is there through the observations to write up a narrative assessment (learning story) over time. I really hope the centre takes this next step with assessment. 

When the new Alberta Curriculum comes out they could just add the principles and goals for learning to the labels/tags - makes life really easy.