Digital portfolios are an effective way for students to showcase evidence of meeting educational standards. Eportfolios are becoming popular again as technology has advanced. Teachers must decide which student work products best illustrate learning aligned to curriculum standards. Portfolios can progress from paper to digital formats over time, starting with simple programs for young students and advancing to web-based options for older students. Popular web-based tools include personal web pages, Pageflakes, Box.net, and Slideshare which allow sharing of files and presentations online.

1. Digital Portfolios – NOW is the time to start Presented by: Barbara LaBeau Visiting Professor College of Education Grand Valley State University [email_address] Russ Barneveld Affiliate Professor College of Education Grand Valley State University [email_address]

2. Purpose of portfolio best means of providing evidence that students have met the school's requirements and state standards formative assessment/summative assessment ePortfolios:Hot Once Again ePortfolios:There’s no “There” There

3. Deciding upon Content What products produced throughout the year best illustrates student’s knowledge? Use? Aligned to curriculum/standards

4. Progression of development From paper to Web 2.0 Helen Barrett’s classification http://electronicportfolios.org/categories.html

5. Paper Why continue? Many documents produced in digital form Can be converted to digital form Teacher selected How much parental involvement? Student selected

6. Kid-Pix Early elementary Allows for: Writing drawing images and voice Non-web based

7. Inspiration-Based Portfolios Non-web based

8. PowerPoint CD/DVD Can be saved as html for a web-based version. Non-web based

9. HTML scripted Difficulty with understanding HTML format FTP foreign to many Access to pages http://www2.gvsu.edu/~schwaamy/ Web-Based Portfolios

10. Personal Webstart Pages No HTML (little/Copy & Paste) Continued access Additional resources used Box.net Slideshare

11. Personal Web Startpages Pageflakes Netvibes Protopage Imbee - for students Weebly

12. Pageflakes examples http://www.pageflakes.com/areichert737/ http://www.pageflakes.com/freerc/17573373 Positives Large amounts of widgets Negatives Does not work with IE or Safari Design is weak

13. Additional web applications Box.net - http://box.net online file storage Slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/ Share ppt gCast - http://www.gcast.com/ audio broadcasting