Invitation to Psychology Class Creates Digital Portfolios using Google Sites

About the Project 

Ms. Deanna Stephan, English and Social Studies teacher at Garnet Valley High school certianly knows how to engage her students. This semester, she has her students creating digital portfolios using Google sites. Ms. Stephan's purpose of this project is to fully engage her students in their learning of themselves and an introduction to Psychology. In her blog, linked below, Ms. Stephan credits the ideas of her sites project to her own learning at Inquiry Schools' Summer Teaching Institute at the Science Leadership Academy, in Philadelphia.  She has also credited the work of AJ Julani, Joy Kirr and Adam Schoenbart for their incredibly, useful tools for Genius Hour that have helped this project become so successful. 

Sample Projects


 https://sites.google.com/a/garnetvalley.org/invite-to-psych-dumara/home
https://sites.google.com/a/garnetvalley.org/invite-to-psych-eckert/home
https://sites.google.com/a/garnetvalley.org/invite-to-psych-hillebrand/home
https://sites.google.com/a/garnetvalley.org/invite-to-psych-burke/home



Ms. Stephan's Blog:

http://deannamstephan.blogspot.com/2016/03/student-portfolios-20-time-and-power-of.html

For more information about this project contact: Ms. Deanna Stephan
stephad@garnetvalley.org 

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