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This is a student's growth portfolio. It shows her progress from the beginning to the end of the year. You may explore this in order to understand how you may want to make portfolios for your future students.

This site has some examples as well as some explanations of the different types of portfolios there are, including best work and growth. 

Using technology in the K-12 classroom has benefits for students and teachers alike. Find out how it engages active learners, facilitates collaboration, and helps teachers succeed.

This article gives 5 good reasons why technology should be used in a classroom, not only by teachers, but also by students. The 5 things are: engages students and creates active learners, encourages individual learning and active growth, facilitates peer evaluation, prepares students for the real world, and creates more engaged and successful teachers.

Think that integrating technology into the classroom will only distract students and marginalize educators? Think again. Since students are already interested and engaged in technology, teachers can harness that attention for educational purposes. Incorporating the internet, laptops, tablets and even smartphones into the curriculum has many benefits for teachers and students alike.

This explains how portfolios can be helpful and shows the best ways to use portfolios in high school, middle school, and elementary school, making it very beneficial for teachers of all age groups and grade level.

Professional Learning Networks Engaging in Professional Growth, Networking and Leadership Think about this for a moment: Where do you find time for learning with with your colleagues? Does it happen while rushing down a hallway to the next class or in a scheduled professional development event?

Is your assessments working? This article helps to give clear cut examples to make sure your classroom assessments are effective.

These seven points help a teacher determine if their assessment of their students is working to foster growth and development in their classes. Each point is a different idea of how assessment can be done in a classroom.

I choose this article because it gives ideas to assess is your classroom assessments are working.

I chose this resource because how technology helps with classroom collaboration. How it flattens the walls of the classroom. It also talks about how students grow with classroom collaboration. Then it has a few videos describing specific case studies with teachers and classroom collaboration.