users in nearly 100 countries and counting.

“bulb is one of the best digital portfolios on the market because it fits into every educational sector.”

~ Carl Hooker, 2016’s Education Thought Leader of the Year

bulb is a simple, beautiful and powerful digital portfolio for students, educators

and professionals. Today, half a million bulb pages are creating a path to career and

college opportunity. bulb belongs to the portfolio owner for life, so students and educators

always have a place to create, share and showcase their work anywhere, anytime.

makes learning brilliant.

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brings critical components of great pedagogy to life.

• Lesson design and sharing

• Feedback and peer review for learner success

• Personalization of learning

• Professional goal setting and evidence

• Showcase of passions and strengths

• Tracking of growth over time

• Accountability to parents and community

• Authentic formative assessment

• Demonstration of Future Ready and

workplace skills

• Student reflection

• Healthy digital citizenship

• Interdisciplinary learning

Real world digital portfolio impact.

Scholarships, internships & career opportunities • A Colorado high school student received a

$50,000 scholarship through her bulb digital

portfolio submission.

• Juniors from Village Tech Schools in

Texas used their digital portfolios to secure

professional internships.

• A Florida college student presented her bulb

portfolio and was awarded her first job

in the design industry.

• Eight Frederick High School seniors were

accepted into college drama programs based

on their bulb digital portfolios which included

audition videos, resumes and technical

design work.

• A student used her bulb portfolio to convince

her school district to create early academy

teaching classes.

just went native.

Launching Fall 2018, download bulbapp from the

Apple App Store and experience the symbiotic

glory of an awe-inspiring relationship: bulb

Digital Portfolios on all Apple devices. For the

past six years bulb has outperformed edtech

software as a web app. After gathering

feedback from our talented team of designers

The new mobile app means pocket size portfolios.

Launching Fall 2018

and committed users, it became apparent

that our next step was to provide the

best possible mobile app for the world’s most

advanced digital portfolio tool. Our mission

is to create education technology that changes

the way learners learn and teachers teach.

This app changes just about everything.

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Student-led conferences

Instill an ownership and pride in learning.

Students select what they feel is their best work

in math, science, social studies and writing to

add to their bulb portfolio. During a student-led

parent-teacher conference, the student uses

bulb in Presentation Mode to share with parents

about his or her learning.

Writing process

Digital work is not the only work that belongs

in a bulb portfolio. Easily snap a photo of each

phase of a student’s physical writing from

planning, drafting, revising and editing, and then

publish the process to a teacher or parents.

Parent communication

A bulb portfolio is always available and visible to

parents. When a new learning artifact is added,

a parent can leave a comment on their child’s

current work and review his or her entire body

of past work curated over the years.

“As a technology specialist, bulb’s simplicity and ease of use is incredibly valuable to my team.”

~ Adam Jones, Teacher at Proctor Academy

Elementary

is a portfolio that grows with students.

With privacy controls and a simple interface,

you can introduce digital portfolios and healthy

digital citizenship to your K-5 students and

parents with confidence.

Audio & video guided reading progression

Authentically capture guided reading progression

in video and audio formats at several points

throughout the year. Have students listen to

themselves and reflect on their own reading

growth.

STEM

Science journals

Students can embed thinking maps, graphs,

charts, pictures and videos of the lab. They can

turn in individual parts of the lab throughout the

process for feedback and ultimately create a

completed lab collection.

Bring complex theories to life

Students create visual and written notes

of major science or math concepts in their

portfolio. Students can easily review past notes

or concepts they want to review, presented in

a way that makes sense to them.

Science fair

A science fair can last longer than a single show.

Students practice presentation skills through

building a bulb collection of their project.

The presentation is dynamic, using interactive

embedded graphs, video, pictures and

descriptions. Parents, family and the community

can leave questions and comments for students

encouraging dialogue.

English language arts (ELA)

Writing portfolio

bulb allows students to maintain an authentic

writing portfolio from year-to-year. This allows

students to see the transfer of skills and the

development of their voice from one writing

project to the next. Teachers use bulb as a

way to provide more personalized learning

by having a comprehensive view of a student’s

true writing skills.

Revision and feedback

Through bulb’s feedback features, students

engage with their teacher, peers, or other bulb

users in the iterative process. The portfolio

captures this process for the writer or audience

to better understand how the writing evolved.

as a blog

bulb is a secure and engaging place to blog.

Students express their thoughts via text,

images, audio files, and video. Now students

are developing their voice in the “21st Century

Literacies.”

“bulb makes it easy for my students to combine video, images, and hypertext to create professional, next-generation writing.”

- Brandon Coon, English teacher at Frederick High School, CO

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Internship journals & career exploration

Preparing students for college and career

means opportunity to job shadow and work in

different careers. Students can capture their

observations as a student teacher or a

nurse-in-training in bulb and support their

journals with visual documentation combining

images, videos, a lesson they prepared,

or a business report they produced for

the internship.

Credentialing

A bulb portfolio is a professional place for

students to showcase their rigorous and relevant

career skills, experiences and certifications.

By creating projects, journaling experiences,

documenting their certifications and curating

some of their best work, they are producing

a portfolio that will tell their unique story and

make them stand out among their peers

to create a path toward better opportunities.

“While other programs come and go, bulb stays with students for life. My students continue to leverage their portfolio well into their college and professional years!”

~ Dawn Feinberg, Teacher at Greeley West High School

Career & technical education (CTE)

Documenting process

bulb is a beautiful, easy place to document key

components of a project. Students tell the story

of how a project came to be, noting challenges

and landmarks of learning. They can include

pictures of brainstorming, video of actual work,

embeded charts and graphs, or screenshots of

design work in progress.

Competitions and successes

Students are creating and competing at high

levels from SkillsUSA to FFA and DECA to

solar car challenges. A bulb portfolio provides

a beautiful place to not only document the

awards and successes that students achieve in

these areas, but also capture that work in action

with video clips of their presentations or photos

of a final submission. Make awards come to life

by showcasing the work that earned the award.

“There is no better tool than bulb to showcase the work my students do. I can post assignments, lectures, videos, PowerPoint information, and have the students post their work all in one place. It makes organization a breeze!”

~ Chelsea Scott, Teacher at Sterling High School

Language

English language learners

Mastering a new language can be challenging.

A bulb portfolio allows you to upload audio

recordings of a student speaking or reading

aloud, as well as photos of writing pieces

throughout the year. This is a great tool to use

with parents during a parent-teacher conference

to demonstrate language acquisition in the

areas of speaking, reading and writing.

Cultural projects

Understanding culture is a major component

of language acquisition. Students can create a

dynamic and visual cultural research project

right in bulb by adding pictures, uploading videos

of themselves speaking in another language,

embedding infographics or interactive media,

and hyperlinking out to articles and research.

The class can take a virtual gallery walk of all

the class projects created in bulb, preserving

class time while exposing students to a breadth

of culture.

Oral presentations

bulb is mobile and accessible on all devices.

Students can audio or video capture an

oral presentation throughout the year and

publish it on bulb.

Social studies

Projects

Students love to learn through discovery.

bulb is a beautiful place to construct ideas and

discover new learning. Students can not only

create a dynamic, visual research project in

bulb using photo, video, audio and multimedia

uploads, but also present directly from their

portfolio using bulb’s Presentation Mode. Have

their peers leave comments for the work being

presented using bulb’s commenting tools. This

saves class time while still engaging students

with each other’s work.

“bulb offers an easy platform for users of any ability to tell their learning stories in technicolor glory. It’s a rarity for a product to be both accessible and beautiful, but bulb does it perfectly.”

~ Brianna Hodges, Texas Instructional Technologist of the Year and National Advisor for Future Ready Schools

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Fine arts

A gallery of final pieces

bulb is a beautiful and easy place to showcase a

gallery of your art. Post pictures along with an

artist statement and display it on bulb with simp-

licity and beauty. Tell the story of your Spring

play by capturing pictures, videos, and playbills.

Be ready to share your work at any moment a

scholarship or college opportunity arises.

Theater

Showcase your school or theater company play

by capturing pictures, videos and playbills.

Share the journey to the final production with

set design drawings and rehearsal photos.

Growth over time

Students often struggle to visualize how they’ve

improved each year. With a bulb portfolio, the

musician can easily add video clips of their

performances or solo pieces and have one

place to view all these works over time. Theater

students can capture set design in pictures

and video and caption them with important

descriptions about challenges or points of pride.

is an art gallery in your pocket.

Reflection

Whether you are in the International

Baccalaureate or other Advanced Placement

programs, bulb provides a personal place to

document your goals, process challenges

and reflect.

Digital Portfolios elevates & empowers teachers around the world.bulb is a beautiful, easy-to-use tool for teachers to showcase professional development

and accolades, collect powerful evidence of growth, and showcase lectures, assignments

and classroom work to peers, administrators, parents and the community.

Most importantly, bulb is yours forever. It’s not a system that is owned by the school district,

so you always have a place to share your work and learning throughout the semester,

the year - and over a lifetime.

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Personalized learning & reflection for educatorsProfessional development

bulb is committed to every teacher’s growth

by allowing them to reflect privately or share

development goals with a supervisor. The app

encourages teachers to try something new and

attach it as evidence of a specific goal. bulb also

allows them to showcase their latest work and

credentials. With bulb’s private, public and group

publishing options, there are endless ways to

use bulb to curate, create, share and showcase

professional development.

Microcredentials – badges & evidence together

As education clarifies its aim at personalizing

learning for students, it’s important to

remember that teachers are also learners and

crave personalized learning for themselves.

Microcredentials allow educators to build

knowledge and learn new skills at their own

pace. Teachers can document their learning

evidence and reflection in their bulb portfolio

and publish their work. A bulb digital portfolio

can easily become a consistent and accurate

reflection of the teacher’s growth process.

Coach others

Instructional coaches create lessons,

film video tutorials, and curate resources.

bulb is a beautiful place to collect and share

these resources with colleagues, trainers

and supervisors.

Feedback

One of the most essential elements of our

personal and professional growth is feedback.

bulb provides teachers the ability to quickly

and pointedly provide comments for students

on their work. This same tool can be used for

the teacher’s professional development by the

principal, supervisor, or teacher.

Create, share and showcase your smarts.

Equipping students for the future

Whether a student’s future entails graduation,

employment, or simply advancing to the next

grade, bulb Digital Portfolios brings a student’s

learning journey to life. Teachers praise the tool

for helping them get to know their incoming

class, while students observe the real-life impact

their portfolio can have on their higher education

and career opportunities.

Maximize digital learning opportunities

Designing lessons

Easily and beautifully bring concepts to life.

Design a compelling experience for students by

arranging different resources from video clips,

embedded articles, links and instructions, as well

as attached documents and rubrics. Teachers

can also create assignment templates that students

can copy and respond to in their own portfolio.

Parent & community engagement

Collect powerful evidence of student learning

at all levels and showcase this work to your

professional network, parents and your

community. Help parents identify growth in their

students and have them leave a comment on

their child’s work.

“It typically takes months for teachers to get to know their students at the start of school. bulb portfolios can give teachers a window into their students’ skills, interests, and motivations thus providing the resources needed to start personalizing learning earlier.”

~ Dr. Jeff Turner, Superintendent at Coppell ISD, Retired

is a beautiful,easy-to-use, web-based digital portfolio where students and educators

curate, create, share and showcase their work.

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