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General Information Examples of E-Portfolios Portfolio Tools Templates Reflection (AKA Self-Assessment)


 * GENERAL INFORMATION**

[|Electronic Portfolio Action & Communication] (EPAC Community of Practice) epac.pbworks.com/w/page/12559687/FrontPage

Five Ways to Use Online Portfolios in the Classroom []

e-portfolios This is an interesting study of eportfolio systems and and overview of their uses. It particularly touches on the importance of using them as a new type of assessment tool. (Mike Brown) http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/10.1/binder.html?

Portfolio Explorations http://www.coe.iup.edu/njyost/portfolios/index.html Provides guidance, suggestions, and models to assist you with constructing your portfolios. Unfortunately, many of the links to examples are broken. The ones that are still active are generally very good.

Dr. Helen Barrett's Favorite Links on Alternative Assessment & Electronic Portfolios http://electronicportfolios.com/portfolios/bookmarks.html Helen Barrett, who was at the University of Alaska - Anchorage, is one of the big names in the areas of alternative assessment.

Using Technology to Support Alternative Assessment and Electronic Portfolios http://electronicportfolios.org/portfolios.html This is also by Helen Barrett.

Expert Showcase: Dr. Helen Barrett on Electronic Portfolio Development http://newali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000156/

Electronic Portfolios [Helen Barrett’s site] http://electronicportfolios.com/

Electronic Portfolios by Joyce L Morris http://www.uvm.edu/%7Ejmorris/ep/electronicportfolio.html

Electronic Portfolios in the K-12 Classroom http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech111.shtml

The Power of Portfolios by Lynn Cohen http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4009 An article in Early Childhood Today

Electronic Portfolios in the K-12 Classroom http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech111.shtml This is an article in the Education World site that gives an overview of electronic portfolios and a collection of related resources.

Tammy’s Technology Tips for Teachers – Electronic Portfolios http://www.essdack.org/port/index.html Tammy Worcester is “the Instructional Technology Specialist for an educational service center called ESSDACK (Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas).”

Authentic Assessment Toolbox: Portfolios http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/portfolios.htm

The Digital Portfolio: A Richer Picture of Student Performance http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/view/ces_res/225

Career Portfolios http://careers.soemadison.wisc.edu/epcs/epcsinfo/CareerPortfolios.htm This page offers suggestions for assembling a portfolio to be used in a job search.

Electronic Portfolios in the K-12 Classroom http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech111.shtml This is an article in the Education World site that gives an overview of electronic portfolios and a collection of related resources.

Electronic Portfolios http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec596r/students/Abrenica/Abrenica.html This report by Yolanda Abrenica is a short, very good description of portfolios.

Education How-To Guides: Portfolios http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/class/edlf/589_004/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1009 This short list of information about portfolios is from the Curry School at the University of Virginia.

Tammy’s Technology Tips for Teachers – Electronic Portfolios http://tammyworcester.com/ Tammy Worcester is “the Instructional Technology Specialist for an educational service center called ESSDACK (Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas).”

[article] The Power of Portfolios by Lynn Cohen http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=12004&FullBreadCrumb=%3Ca+href%3D%22%2Fbrowse%2Fsearch.jsp%3Fquery%3Dportfolio%26c1%3DCONTENT30%26c2%3Dfalse%22%3EAll+Results+%3C%2Fa%3E From Scholastic’s Early Childhood Today, this article talks more generally about portfolios, but many of the ideas can be modified to be included in an electronic portfolio.

[article] [|Great Gadgets for Assessment by Warren Buckleitner] http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp... This article is from Scholastic’s Early Childhood Today. It says “Recording children’s progress is fun, fast, and easy with technology old and new.”

[article] [|Group Time: Sharing Portfolios] http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp... From Scholastic’s Early Childhood Today, this article is introduced by saying “When children share their accomplishments, they come away from group time with a deep sense of inner satisfaction.”

[article] [|Assessment Tools for Measuring Progress Throughout the Year] http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp... This article, from Scholastic’s Early Childhood Today, talks about assessment portfolios for young children – think about how this information can be saved electronically.

Career Portfolios http://careers.soemadison.wisc.edu/epcs/epcsinfo/CareerPortfolios.htm This page offers suggestions for assembling a portfolio to be used in a job search.

Portfolio Explorations http://www.coe.iup.edu/njyost/portfolios/index.html Provides guidance, suggestions, and models to assist you with constructing your portfolios. Unfortunately, many of the links to examples are broken. The ones that are still active are generally very good.

Electronic Portfolios: Students, Teachers, and Life Long Learners []

Electronic Portfolios in Teacher Education by Neal Strudler and Keith Wetzel []

About E-portfolios []

Developing Electronic Portfolios []

(article) Beyond the Electronic Portfolio: A Lifetime Personal Web Space by E R Cohn and B Hibbitts [] “Rather than limit people to the e-portfolio model, why not develop a model providing a personal Web space for everyone, for their lifetimes and beyond”

Portfolio Library: Planning and Design Guide [] This site, part of the ‘Selected Works by Marin Kimeldorf’, is a very through, step-by-step planning guide.

Electronic Portfolios = Multimedia Development + Portfolio Development The Electronic Portfolio Development Process by Helen C. Barrett, Ph.D. []

Creating an Electronic Portfolio by Lisa Spencer [] This is a webquest showing how to make a portfolio

Models (Project M3) Electronic Portfolios []

Integrating Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom []

An Introduction to Electronic Portfolios in the Language Classroom by Sadia Yasser Ali []

Electronic Portfolios: Websites compiled by Sue LeBeau []

Developing Student Electronic Portfolios by David Brear []

Authoring in the Media of our Times: e-Portfolio Assessment [] “Learn to build e-Portfolios & implement them with students”

Rubric for Assessing Electronic Portfolios by Joyce L. Morris []

The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What's it All About? []


 * EXAMPLES OF E-PORTFOLIOS**

The Portfolio Clearinghouse http://www.aahe.org/teaching/portfolio_db.htm Searchable examples by the American Association for Higher Education

E-Folio Minnesota http://efoliomn.com/ This describes a multimedia electronic portfolio project for residents of Minnesota, but take a look at the Gallery of Samples.

Online Portfolios (by Fab7 Designers) http://www.fab7.com/About_Us/portfolios.html Examples of career portfolios developed by graphic artists

AEET/EDET 793 Web Site http://edtech.usca.edu/courses/et793/sp04/et793syllabus.shtml This web site is from the course in which students in the Educational Technology Program develop their program portfolio. You will see examples of the final "Professional Web Sites" as well as some of the planning and design stages in the ‘Multimedia Projects’ and ‘Our Program Portfolio Drafts’ areas.


 * PORTFOLIO TOOLS**

Epsilen [] "...Epsilen allows [all learners and educators with .edu or .k12 email addresses] to create a unique ePortfolio, which is available to them for life, and at no cost to the individual user. This lifelong resource allows students to manage their complete educational profile. They can incorporate calendars, wikis, blogs, notes, drop boxes, and other interactive tools. They can also share whatever information they feel is relevant with other educational institutions, or even potential employers.

Chalktips [] On this site you can publish and view online "booklets". The free account lets you make portfolio pages, booklets, and a profile page that others can see. They offer fee-based services if you want the gradebook feature, for example, or if you want to limit access to a booklet.

Digication [commercial product] [] You can make personal or "Classroom Edition" e-portfolios. "Digication pricing varies depending on your type of school, location, and level of support offered."

Pathbrite "Portfolios for Education, Career, Life" []"Pathbrite for Educators is free for faculty and staff. Pricing for students is only $10 per student per year.

Taskstream [commercial product] [] This has been around for a long time. There are subscriptions for individual educators, college students, and for institutions. Selecting the software and approach to creating an electronic portfolio []

Create Your Own Electronic Portfolio Using Off-the-Shelf Software to Showcase Your Own or Student Work by Helen C. Barrett (2000) [] She shares ideas about making portfolios with everything from databases to multimedia slideshows.

Create Student Portfolios With Hyperlinks by Lorrie Jackson [] This is a step by step tutorial for making an interactive portfolio using a word processing program.

Developing Electronic Portfolios with PowerPoint (pdf) []

Creating Electronic Portfolios Using Microsoft Word and Excel (pdf) []

“At-a-Glance Guides”: Common Software Tools for Creating and Publishing Electronic Portfolios [] “These brief, one-page guides, are developed for using common software tools for creating electronic portfolios. These guides assumes prior knowledge of the particular software package, or access to other training materials.” The files are in pdf format.

At-a-Glace Guide: Create Electronic Portfolios using Microsoft Word (pdf) []

At-a-Glace Guide: Cross-Reference Standards with Electronic Portfolio Artifacts using Microsoft Excel (pdf) []

At-a-Glace Guide: Present Electronic Portfolios Using PowerPoint or Keynote (pdf) []

At-a-Glace Guide: Publish Electronic Portfolios on the Internet [] This gives a general overview of publishing to the web. The sources are generally old, but the basic information is still good.

How To Create Your Own Electronic Portfolio based on the "5-by-5 Model" of Electronic Portfolio Development by Helen C. Barrett, Ph.D. []

http://efoliomn.com/ eFolio Minnesota, a multimedia electronic portfolio

Open Source Portfolio Systems from http://electronicportfolios.com/portfolios/bookmarks.html#k12

Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) http://www.theospi.org University of Minnesota's e-portfolio contributed to the Open Source Community [|http://sourceforge.net/projects/ospi/]

ePortfolio.org provided by the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium (CTDLC) with 11 partner institutions of higher education http://www.eportfolio.org/

Mahara (developed in New Zealand) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahara https://eduforge.org/projects/mahara/ and http://myportfolio.ac.nz/

\Moofolio (developed by SPDC in New Hampshire) http://moodle.spdc.org/moofolio/

P-nelope http://sourceforge.net/projects/p-nelope/

Marvelous CMS http://sourceforge.net/projects/marvelous/

Klahowya Student Portfolio Solution [|http://sourceforge.net/projects/klahowya2]/

IUPportfolio (from Sweden) http://sourceforge.net/projects/iupp/

Cyberfolio http://sourceforge.net/projects/cyberfolio/

PortEd!t http://sourceforge.net/projects/port-edit/

Music Portfolio Manager http://sourceforge.net/projects/music-port-mgr/

Portfolio Manager (for artists) http://sourceforge.net/projects/portfolios/

TEMPLATES
E-Portfolios (City College of New York) [] They have a number of templates (zipped) for you to download based on your program of study and different subject areas. The instructions use Mozilla SeaMonkey, which is a free internet browser/html editor (much like Netscape/Netscape Composer used to be) but you could use any HTML editor. They also give instructions for sending your completed files to the City College server; obviously, unless you are a student there, they will not host your site.

//For Young Children//

Templates for e-portfolios []

//For Educational Technology//

National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) ­Electronic Portfolio Templates [] This is from ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education. They have templates for use with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and HTML.

//For Others//

Electronic Portfolio Templates [] These HTML templates are from the old PT3 grant project we had at the University of South Carolina. They are what they are….


 * REFLECTION**

Self-Assessment: The Reflective Practitioner [North Carolina Public Schools] http://www.ncpublicschools.org/pbl/pblreflect.htm

NCREL's Self-Assessment in Portfolios http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr2port.htm This is from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.

What is Reflective Practice by Joy Amulya [PDF] http://crcp.mit.edu/documents/whatis.pdf This article is from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Center for Reflective Community Practice.

Reflection in Education http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-reflect.htm

Teaching Critical Reflection" by Susan Imel http://www.cete.org/acve/docs/tia00071.pdf