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An online portfolio maker for high school students and art teachers. This site has a ton of great resources for both parties and also features that help students look at art schools online and submit their portfolios via the site.

Since I'm taking portfolio this fall, I thought I'd share my portfolio site.

This is great Angela! Wonderful set-up and site organization. You are inspiring me for my portfolio this spring! Thanks for sharing.

This is another resource that walks through the important elements of a digital portfolio. This article talks about what to include in a portfolio and how the elements should be arranged to make them more aesthetically pleasing.

Digital portfolios are becoming an increasingly popular way to showcase an individual's learning or abilities. This resource has several tips on how to make your digital portfolio eye-catching so that it might stand out from others.

This article focuses on what the authors call a 'personal learning space', which includes weblogs, portfolios and social networking. It exams groups dynamics and trust, privacy, and the information life cycle.

This website contains a presentation on 'Designing Virtual Portfolios for Communities of Practice'.

This site allows for users to upload find, share, and create amazingly visually informative and creative infographics for free without the use of expensive software or design know-how. It can also act as a portfolio for your designs.

Provides an example of a teacher using blogs, before blogs were commonly used as a classroom tool. The teacher had the students take their blogs and morph them in to online portfolios. The teacher published an eBook talking about the successes.

"550Share"

This is a blog that highlights innovative ideas. This page emphasizes digital storytelling projects they had students create to promote how amazing the books were that they read. They present their digital analysis of the book in VoiceThread so that other students can make comments and discuss the themes, characters, plots, or whatever they want to share about the book.

PBworks looks like a Learning Management System that can be used for free, however the collaborative parts require a subscription. For $99/ year you get security, control over who sees your pages, storage space, and the collaborative perks.

By Loertscher, David V. and Koechlin, Carol (2011). Check out the library at BSU for full text! Discusses each component of digital PLEs in greater details and provides a model that divides the PLE intro three distinct stages of development (each phase empowers the learner to manage specific aspects of his/her learning potential.)

Great example of the Networking Project for Edtech 541

This site explains the benefits of using electronic portfolios in the classroom. It walks you through the process of developing an eportfolio.

This article discusses the uses of communities of practice in universities, particularly research practice. It calls into question some typical strategies used, such as a portfolio for assessment. It also talks about, as a few articles have now, the progressive nature of communities of practice - that one starts by observing, then participating, then adding to and helping to lead.

This blogger shared ideas on how as an educator you can embrace the learning theory of Connectivism. She states that connectivism revolves around creating online networks of learning. Through these networks, knowledge is shared. She states that Web 2.0 tools encourage this learning theory by default. Just by using Facebook, Twitter, creating digital portfolios and blogs to discuss and share education, you are on the right path to discovering the benefits Connectivism.

This is a very interesting read for everyone affected by the immediate and retroactive changes to AECT. All students must now align their MET portfolio to the new standards! This examines whether the college catalog and language therein constitute a legally binding contract between college and student. Categorizes catalog litigation by cases involving dismissal, granting of degrees, tuition, admission, and course offerings. The courts appear to agree that the student-college relationship is contractual in nature and that the relevant contractual terms are set forth in the catalogs. (202 references) (MLH)

present pdf files as flipping book pages on website--- Oops! Just noticed some body else recently posted this same site...

Flipsnack is a free and easy site to make attractive flipbooks by uploading images or video and adding text. It can be personalized and would be great for an online art portfolio for students.

Book creator from PDF file, book pages flip similar to real book. Free and embeddable.