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Digital Portfolios Made Easy is a portfolio system developed by Dr. Leigh E. Zeitz and Andrew E. Krumm. It provides a system for presenting digital portfolios that is complete but simple. The growing interest in electronic and digital portfolios has created opportunities for practitioners to present portfolios that are more rich and interconnected than the traditional notebook professional portfolio. The greatest obstacle to creating digital portfolios, however, can be the practitioner's perception of the technology itself. The technology does not need to be overly complicated, and the goal of DPME is to make the process as transparent and intuitive as possible. The DPME templates provide a framework within which to build a standards-based, individualized professional portfolio. The DPME templates are provided in two formats, Word and HTML. These two formats allow practitioners of all skill levels to use software that most already have on their computers.

Using e-portfolios for assessment The use of computers in distance education creates many opportunities for learners to record their progress through a course. In many institutions, tutors are using e-portfolios as a method of formative or continuous assessment. E-portfolios can be produced and published on the Web using some of the simple tools that were discussed in Unit 4, such as wikis, blogs and Google Docs. In addition, some learners might choose to add multimedia elements such as video or audio recordings, if they have the basic equipment - and the inclination - to do so. As the following illustration by Helen Barret (2007) shows, it is possible to create quite an elaborate, multimedia portfolio system using only freely available tools on the Web.

Many of the participants in the UW-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program use Google Sites to create their e-portfolios.  The portfolios are created and used throughout the program. During the practicum, when students become teachers by teaching in one of our graduate classes, they also refine and polish their portfolios. Ultimately the online portfolio becomes a job search tool that helps our graduates show a potential employer what they know. 

la définition du e-portfolio: « collection d'informations qui illustre (…) l'apprentissage ou la vie professionnelle d'une personne à travers une sélection de résultats marquants au cours de formations ou d'études mais aussi qui regroupe les réflexions personnelles de l'apprenant sur son apprentissage, son parcours, la planification d'une carrière ou la construction d'un CV (…).

Great example of a parent letter explaining students' digital e-portfolios

Un eportfolio est défini comme étant une collection d'informations qui illustre la scolarité, l'apprentissage ou la vie professionnelle d'une personne à travers une sélection de résultats marquants au cours de formations ou d'études mais aussi qui regroupe les réflexions personnelles de l'apprenant sur son apprentissage, son parcours, la planification d'une carrière ou la construction d'un CV. Ce dernier aspect est un point fondamental qui différencie l'eportfolio du portfolio classique.(eportfolio Australia) Réfléchir sur son propre parcours d'apprentissage va permettre à l'apprenant de mieux intégrer ses différentes expériences d'apprentissage. (University of Waterloo)

a creative commons licensed course taking trainers and students through the process of creating and producing an e-portfolio using google tools

"This Google Site has been set up by Dr. Helen Barrett to focus on the use of Google Apps to create ePortfolios. On this site, there are instructions on how to use the different elements of Google Apps to maintain e-portfolios." (Home, ¶1, 2012.11.06)

I watched Dr. Barrett's webinar today; very good stuff! I think there's a great deal of her work we can use right now.

A great resource on using Google Sites for e-portfolio development and more.

# Turn social bookmarking and page annotation into effective learning tools (for example by including peer-assessment features). # Allow users to easily compile personal e-portfolios (for example, by combining their own works - photos, comments, articles-with testimonials others have written about them). # Let the browser suggest relevant materials (for example, by automatically identifying additional articles based on what sites a person visit or which topics they search for). # Support social learning communities (for example, by making it easy to find and connect with others who share similar learning interests).