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One teacher describes her journey after her school decided to use Google Drive to host student portfolios. They began to piece together the steps necessary for this to be successful for all stakeholders: students, teachers, and parents/guardians. Including parents and guardians in the loop seemed more like an emerging trend. This is how they created and shared student portfolios using Google Drive. Student and teacher permissions are set to allow both viewing and editing of content in the folders, while parents and guardians are given viewing permissions. Also, parents and guardians DO NOT need to create a Google account simply to view contents of their child's portfolio folder.

Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework from NZ.

Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework from NZ. Mahara, meaning 'think' or 'thought' in Te Reo Māori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.

The exabis e-Portfolio block enables portfolio work for students from within Moodle. The block has to be activated at least once in any course (or on the mymoodle-page)- students can then do eportfolio-work across courses building up and using their individual category-system. It is a non-standard module.

Australian Flexible Learning Framework e-Portfolios blog. Hat's off to Allison Miller -- good stuff!

How one primary school teacher approached using and writing blogs with her class

Blog post byTeachingSagittarian showing how she uses VT for portfolios.

E Portfolios MOOC VET Sector

portfolio templates for teachers, administrators and students

Really great little introduction to Mahara and Mahara views.

Mahara is an open source e-portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities. Mahara is designed to provide users with the tools to demonstrate their life-long learning, skills and development over time to selected audiences.

Interesting thoughts about the use of eportfolios in a Canadian school

From the University of Ballarat, FolioSpaces.... is a fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online communities. Foliospaces free ePortfolio provides you with the tools to set up a personal learning and development environment. The standard version of Foliospaces is free. Unlike some institutional ePortfolio solutions, you keep your Foliospaces when you graduate, or change employment. An ad free premium ePortfolio version is also available for a small annual fee.

From Robin Good: Beeclip EDU is a web app which allows anyone to easily combine images, video and texts to create instructional scrapbooks, moodboards, collages or portfolios. Images can be easily searched and imported via Google Images and Flickr, and text can be easily added in a number ways. Visual objects can be positioned and personalized on the page and final scrapbooks can be downloaded or printed. Free to use. Can be tested without registering.

Post provides an interesting discussion about why and how you might go about creating an online portfolio.

"Googlios", where free Google tools meet ePortfolios. This site is intended to be a collection of resources for those interested in using ePortfolios in Education.

ow can the use of iPod engage both the struggling reader and second language learners? Learn how iPod, together with iTunes, can be used as tools for creating digital portfolios for students to promote language acquisition.

From Helen Barrett