This document discusses the importance of digital portfolios for 21st century teachers and students. It advocates that students should be able to curate, archive, and expand on their work to develop digital literacy skills. An experiment is described where students created digital portfolios using tools like blogs, Google Sites, and presentations on SlideShare to showcase their work. The portfolios followed a blended learning model and were integrated throughout the semester. Students were given tasks and quizzes to include in their portfolios. Constant monitoring and feedback was provided to help students successfully create personalized digital portfolios.

1. Workshop
Digital Portfolio: A Must Have
Pedagogical Tool for the 21st
Century Teacher
Dilip Barad
M K Bhavnagar University
Bhavnagar – Gujarat
www.dilipbarad.com

2. What do we understand by Digital
Portfolio?

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7. Holly Clark
• It is imperative that in 2015, students be able to
curate, archive and expand on the work they are
producing in class.
• Today’s education must help students
authentically learn important digital citizenship
lessons.
• Education must students to internalize the core
subject as well as vital digital literacy skills such
as creating their own digital web presence and
learning to effectively and purposefully share
their learning with the world.

8. Herbert Gerjuoy has rightly observed:
• "The new education must teach the individual
how to classify and reclassify information,
how to evaluate its veracity, how to change
categories when necessary, how to move from
the concrete to the abstract and back, how to
look at problems from a new direction —
how to teach himself."

10. • Creativity and Innovation
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
• Communication:
• Collaboration
• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy
• ICT Literacy
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Initiative & Self-direction
• Social & Cross-cultural Skills
• Productivity & Accountability
• Leadership & Responsibility
• http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2015/04/mapping-21st-century-skills-
english.html

11. An experiment with Digital Portfolio
• Web tools used:
– Google Form for Online Quiz
– Flubaroo for auto-grading
– Blog for assignments
– PPT / Slideshare.net for Presentations
– Google Sites for Web platform / launch pad
• Tools for coordination:
• Google Group - Email communication
• Whatsapp Group – Short Message and Link sharing
• SMS Group – short instructions and link sharing
• Google Plus Community

12. Modus Operandi
• Blended Learning – as pedagogical framework
• Technology is integrated right from the beginning
of Semester 1.
• Tasks are explained and monitored from Sem 1.
– Pre-admission test – Online and Written.
– Unit end quiz
– Semester end presentations, assignments
– Video recording of presentation – for YouTube
– Constant reminder to blog their views on literature,
films, current affairs etc.

13. What makes Digital Portfolio Project
successful?
• Planning
– Teacher should have the map in the mind, if possible
define it in clear terms in log book
• Implementation
– Constant monitoring
– Support and motivation to students
• Outcome
– Personalized feedback
– Motivate to update the portfolios even after studies

14. On this blog post, click
on Batches to see the
digital portfolio prepared
by the students:
http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2012/04
/project-blended-learning-2012.html

15. GO TO WWW.DILIPBARAD.COM
AND CLICK ON “PROJECT BLENDED
LEARNING” TO VISIT DIGITAL
PORTFOLIOS OF THE STUDENTS
Or

16. Thank You
Please give your response /
suggestion / opinion / observation
dilipbarad@gmail.com