Museum Box
If a student can design a handcraft portfolio, why not have them create an eportfolio on the computer? Students can construct digital interactive eportfolios with Museum Box. This Web 2.0 tool is easy, doesn’t require notebooks and supplies, and it’s free. The Museum Box intentions are for the user to describe his or her life, an infamous person, or maybe a historical time period. But, in the Museum Box examples, I did notice that educators utilized this virtual box for just about any curriculum. The user can add an abundance of information, just like a trapper keeper, with text, images, videos, sound files, and links to enhance their eportfolios topics. At first the eportfolio looks like a box, but others can view the contents located inside the box, with a simple click.
Museum Box could be utilized at any grade level with any curriculum, but I think this tool would really benefit older elementary, middle, and high school students. To use this tool with the younger grade levels, students could view teacher created boxes, while older students could design their own assigned Museum Box topic.
Since I have Kindergarten through sixth grade students, I would have my older elementary students construct an Eating Healthy Museum Box for my younger students to open and view in my health classes. This way my older and younger students would increase their healthy eating habits. I would have my students layer their food pyramid Museum Box with the food groups. Students would create questions and answers about each food group, and provide examples. I would also have them include one video, link, and sound to their food pyramid box.
Even though you can upload your own images, videos, and sound files, a big Museum Box plus, is that this Web 2.0 tool has an enormous library of images and sound files, so copyright is not a concern for students and educators. It also has recording capabilities for video and sound. One of the best advantages are students and educators can save their Museum Box and work on it at school or home, and when the box is completed, others can comment on the finished eportfolio.
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