Creative Ways to Use Electronic Portfolios in the Classroom

1. Creative Ways to Use Electronic Portfolios in the Classroom Presented by Lynne Anderson EduTech

2. What is a portfolio? • A collection of completed work (Batson, 2002) • A representative collection of one’s work (Wiggins, 2002) • A warehouse for students’ work (Falls, 2001)

3. What is an Educational Portfolio? • A purposeful collection of student work that exhibits the student’s efforts, progress and achievements in one or more areas (over time). The collection must include student participation in selecting contents, the criteria for selection, the criteria for judging merit, and evidence of student self-reflection. (Northwest Evaluation Association, 1990)

4. Portfolio Types • Working • Cross-discipline • Display, Showcase or Best Work • Documentation • Evaluation • Graduation • Assessment

5. Why an ePortfolio?

6. ePortfolio Tools • Categories • Web 2.0 • Google Tools • Online Storage

7. ePortfolio Examples • Assessment • Cross-discipline • Display, Showcase or Best Work • Evaluation

8. Steps in Creating ePortfolios • Collect: electronically store your work in one place. It is preferable to have it in an online archive so that you will have one place where you can go to find your work. This collection will also allow you to see your work, your progress, and your development over time. • Select: select key materials from your collection that you believe best demonstrate your achievements.

9. Reflect: write a reflection about your work. Reflection is a deliberate attempt to examine the act of learning and to document your learning. When you reflect on your learning, you are thinking critically about your total learning experience and drawing connections between a body of knowledge and its applications carefully. • Connect: use your eportfolio to make personally meaningful connections between your academic, service, community, and work experiences. The eportfolio will serve as a showcase for your very best work, documenting your growth and change over time. (LaGuardia Community College, n.d.)

10. References Batson, Trent (2002) The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What's it All About? Syllabus. Available online: http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6984 Danielson, C. & Abrutyn, L. (1997). An introduction to using portfolios in the classroom. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Electronic Portfolios (2008). Retrieved April 4, 2008, from http://electronicportfolios.org/ Introduction to ePortfolios (n.d.). Retrieved April 8, 2008, from http://www.eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu/ Falls, Jane A. (2001). Using a Reflective Process to Implement Electronic Portfolios Retrieved April 4, 2008, from 2001) http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12102001-125815/ Gibson, David & Barrett, Helen (2002). “Directions in Electronic Portfolio Development.” ITFORUM listserv discussion paper for December. Posted online: http://electronicportfolios.org/ITFORUM66.html Lamb, Annette, Johnson, Larry & Smith, William L. (2008) Teaching and Learning at a Distance Available online: http://eduscapes.com/distance/course_assessment/checklists.htm Seely, A. (1994). Portfolio assessment. Westminister, CA: Teacher Created Materials. Seidel, S., Walters, J., Kirby, E., Olff, N., Powell, L., Scripp, L., & Veenema, S. (1997). Portfolio practices: Thinking through the assessment of children’s work. Washington, D.C.: National Education Association.