Materials in support of a session by Gail Lovely.

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.

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

6. What have we done
in the past?

7. Start with the End in Mind...

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

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

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

11. Collection of Artifacts

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

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

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

15. Steps in aNon-Linear Process

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

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

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

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

20. 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

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

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

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

24. Online Tools
• Voicethread
– http://ed.voicethread.com/
– Example:
http://teachingsagittarian.com/2009/03/v
oicethread-as-a-digital-portfolio/
– http://voicethread.com/?#q.b1455241.i10
079797
– Helpful:
http://sites.google.com/site/reflection4lea
rning/elementary-school

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

26. Online Tools
• GlogsterEdu
– http://edu.glogster.com
Example:
http://schooladmin9592.edu.glogster.com/
portfolio-ideas/
http://glovely.edu.glogster.com/glogsterex
amples/

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

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

29. Apps
• Screenchomp (free)
• Showme (free)
• Storykit (free)
• Voicethread (best with paid subscription)
• Evernote
• Wordpress
• Tumblr

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

31. 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)

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