E-Portfolio


 * If we were to create a modern day e-portfolio what 21st Century tools might be used and what would be the needed components to build this collection of student work?**

Blogging would be a great tool for e-portfolios. Blogging allows students the ability to journal things that are going on in their classrooms. This tool is also good because teachers can view and comment on their work, they can upload work and links of other digital tools they have used, and they never have to use space from the district's server. KSpain

I like blogging as well. Video, PowerPoints, and pictures can be uploaded as support to any commentary posted by the blogger. They can tag their ideas to reconnect posts on any one topic. A personal wiki would be a great idea too. Each new page could focus on a given project. This could be as simple as text (just like writing a term paper) or embedding specialized Web 2.0 tools. If the students wanted to get really fancy, they could embed glogs from Glogster on curricular units which hosts several forms of media on one content page. KLossing

I like the idea of a personal wiki simply because I'm less familiar with groupings in blogging. WIth the wikis, the projects can be categorized by subjects, format or by student and easily linked to one another by relevance. The navigation on most Blog sites seems a bit shoddy whereas a wiki's can be created to be very intuitive and tend to run smoothly without overlapping irrelevant information (such as multiple blogs from the same source, but completely unrelated). BGrubbs

I think the wiki would make a great e-portfolio. It can be customized and easily organized and navigated by the user and the teacher(s) for grading purposes. Lots of Web 2.0 tools can be added to the wiki and if the student is working with another student on a project they could be invited to edit parts of the wiki for a collaborative project. ADavis

I like the wiki idea myself simply because I am more familiar with it than blogging. Don't really have a lot of elementary students familiar with blogging either. I think the wiki is simple to use, easy to organize and you can ealsy embed things into them. Our elementary students are really loving the glogster idea as well. Just need to get more of them using it. I thinking having the e-portfolio is the way to go. We are always talking about going green and e-portfolios would be the way to fix this. Teachers are always having to make copies of student work, and then put that same work in multiple locations. Having it organized in a wiki or what ever tool you used would make it much more accessible to everyone needing the info. C.Hames

I am all for the idea of a wiki as well. The wiki allows you to add multiple pages which will the make sorting your work by grade levels or any other method much easier. The organization of it alone would be beneficial. Many other web 2.0 tools may also be utilized with the wiki and simply embedded or a direct link added. I do think that blogging should also be a reflective part of the e-portfolio to show the student's growth throughout the process as well. This will give way to making the e-portfolio better as the student continually adds materials and media. JMcClelland