Education Week: E-Portfolios Evolve Thanks to Web 2.0 Tools - 1 views
-
Shorecrest Preparatory School,
-
private K-12 school in St. Petersburg, Fla
-
Previously, teachers were asked to keep
- ...18 more annotations...
-
track of student work and put together
-
portfolios for the students to take with them
-
when they graduated to middle school, says
-
Baralt. They used PowerPoint software to
-
store the documents, and students didn’t
-
receive the portfolios until graduation day
-
Teachers soon lost interest in the labor-
-
ntensive process, and the portfolio program was almost dropped until Baralt decided to take a stab at revamping it.
-
Now, portfolios are created in the 2nd and 4th grades, and students are responsible for documenting their own work, Baralt says. “It used to be teacher- and administration-driven, but now it’s a true teacher-student partnership,” she says. “The students really have a say in what they’re doing.”
-
The 2nd graders use a Web-based program called VoiceThread, which archives and indexes images, videos, text, and audio. Fourth graders create their own Web pages to display what they’ve learned throughout their time at Shorecrest.
-
Part of the challenge of digital portfolios is the time it takes to maintain them,
-
nother challenge in implementing digital portfolios
-
is providing enough access to technology to make them a workable option,
-
Hawaii Department of Education, which runs the 178,000-student statewide school district, hosts a platform for student e-portfolios,
-
The department used to provide training for teachers to learn how to use digital portfolios with their students,
-
At San Diego’s High Tech Middle School—part of a group of charter schools created with an emphasis on technology, innovation, and real-world learning—students use digital portfolios to document their progress
-
the portfolios evolve from a place for students to showcase finished work to a way for them to document the process of learning
-
“It’s not about being right, it’s about being transparent,” he says. “[For teachers], it’s about being able to access [students’] thinking.”
