This document discusses ePortfolios, which allow students to collect artifacts that demonstrate their personal growth and learning over time. ePortfolios can be used to document the process of learning as well as display final products. They provide students with tools to collect work in multiple formats and potentially share with a broader audience. The reflection process is highlighted as important for students to learn from their experiences. A variety of free online tools and apps that can be used to create ePortfolios, such as blogs, wikis, and Voicethread, are described.

1. BEGINNING EPORTFOLIOS
Gail Lovely
Gail@GailLovely.com

2. What ARE ePortfolios?
“A reflection of the
student as a person
undergoing continual
personal development
– not just a store of
evidence”
Helen Barrett

3. What ARE ePortfolios?
A report card shows
letters and numbers...
a portfolio shows growth
and knowledge.

4. ePortfolio described
• http://nancy-
rubin.com/2011/10/16/eportfolio-
explained-visually/

5. What ARE ePortfolios?
Of course...
We CAN ask Google...

7. Student Voice

8. Student Voice

9. Student Voice

10. Student Voice

11. Student Voice

12. Student Voice

13. What have we done
in the past?

14. Start with the End in Mind...

15. Goal? Purpose?
• What is the purpose?
• Who is the audience?

16. Portfolios
Documenting process Displaying product...
• Chronological • Thematic
• Reflective • Accountability or
Showcase

17. Kinds of Portfolios
• Collection
• Reflective
• Feedback
• Selection and Presentation

18. Collection of Artifacts

19. • What is collected?
• Why is it collected?
• Who decides?

20. The Power of Reflection
“We don’t learn from experience.
We learn from reflecting on experience.”
John Dewey

21. Student Reflection Tools
• https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd7
6m5s2_198dpqjztgj

22. Steps in a Non-Linear Process

23. Feedback
• An example “flow”
• http://www.scribd.com/doc/9336533/ePortfolios-and-Assessment-for-Learning

24. Portfolios
Documenting process Displaying product...
• Chronological • Thematic
• Reflective • Accountability or
Showcase
Audience?

25. Audience
• Walled Garden
• Open to “Real World”
• Different Audiences, Different Roles

26. Tools for ePortfolios
• Ability to collect
multiple formats of
evidence of
growth, learning, ch
ange
• May provide
platform for larger
audience (and
feedback)

27. Online Tools
• Blogs
– http://classblogmeister.com/index.php
Examples:
http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blo
gger_id=272811&show=all
http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blo
gger_id=322869&show=all

28. Online Tools
• Blogs
– http://kidblog.org/home.php
Examples:
http://kidblog.org/MissDsClass2/
http://kidblog.org/missdunsigersclass/autho
r/Jocelyn/

29. Online Tools
• Blogs
– http://edublogs.org
Examples:
http://09tristanb.edublogs.org/
Other: http://mjgds.org/students/elizai/
http://mjgds.org/students/manyag/

30. Online Tools
• Wikis
– http://wikispaces.com
Examples:
http://cwojtera.wikispaces.com/Student+p
ages

31. Online Tools
• Voicethread
– http://ed.voicethread.com/
– Example:
http://teachingsagittarian.com/2009/03/v
oicethread-as-a-digital-portfolio/
– Helpful:
http://sites.google.com/site/reflection4lea
rning/elementary-school

32. Online Tools
• Littlebird Tales
– http://littlebirdtales.com
Example:
http://littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_i
d/11058 (imagine, if you will, better
content here...)

33. Online Tools
• Glogster Edu
– http://edu.glogster.com
Example:
http://schooladmin9592.edu.glogster.com/
portfolio-ideas/
http://glovely.edu.glogster.com/glogsterex
amples/

34. Online Tools
• AudioBoo (app too)
– http://audioboo.fm
Example:
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2011/05/
26/digitizing-an-elementary-writing-
portfolio/

35. Other Tools
• Scanners
• Digital cameras
• Video cameras
• Audio recorders
• Mobile Phones

36. Apps
• Screenchomp (free)
• Showme (free)
• Storykit (free)
• Voicethread (best with paid subscription)
• Evernote
• Wordpress
• Tumblr
• Threering
• Explain Everything

37. Professional Resources
• On the website...
• http://ezportfolios.yolasite.com

38. The process of collecting, selecting, and
reflecting on the work in a portfolio is
what makes it powerful. The portfolio is
a representation of what students
know and are able to do, and the
opportunity to present that work to an
audience of peers, parents, and
teachers shows that the world can
take the students’ work seriously.
By David Niguidula, in his chapter “Digital Portfolios and Curriculum Maps”
of the book Curriculum21 by Heidi Hayes Jacobs (ASCD, 2010)

39. It’s about them...
• Gail@GailLovely.com
http://ezportfolios.yolasite.com/