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A research project to assess the impact of electronic portfolios on student learning, motivation and engagement in high schools

Level of Interactivity: Lower < - - - - - - - - - - - - > Higher Level of Personal Expression and Creativity for the Portfolio Developer: Higher < - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Lower

"D. S. Watts (teachwatts) has posted a series of blog entries this spring on using WordPress as a blog for her high school students. "

Start page or landing page, displays individual student blogs on one page could be used to display multiple portfolios

Google Wave was just announced at the Google I/O conference, video here. At minute 27:00 to 31:00 you will see a segment with important implications for the conversation we have been having with Helen Barrett about Showcase vs Workspace ePortfolios. Our original, and her graphic. What seems to be important about Google Wave is the way it is a PLE and by adding new reviewers of some works, a showcase as well. This could address the challenge of making showcases which might have otherwise been an aftertthought to the actual work.

A recently produced research document makes encouraging reading- even if a lot of the interesting bits are embedded within masses of statistics and tables. However, although this document is about online learning we can extend its conclusions to the additional functionality that an e-Portfolio can provide.

I'm doing online research for my book, and found some great examples of using Blogger to create ePortfolios in Kindergartens.

"# Downloads entire sites or pages with all required content. # Downloads selected media (pictures, music, clips) from pages. # Downloads links from a selected text/html file." Good for downloading ePortfolio sites created with WordPress?

"Student ePortfolios "

links, more links, and then some links

"» Store examples of your achievements (documents, photos, graphics, spreadsheets, web pages)\n» Create media rich Guest Views to share with family, friends, employers, faculty, and others\n» Showcase your accomplishments!"

"Also there are 2 major open source ePortfolio tools - OSP and Mahara and these are to greater or lesser extent integrated with open source Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) - Sakai and Moodle. "

"This is a brief collection of work I have created and produced. It includes creative and commercial projects. The Video work I create ranges from promos,full length and short documentaries. Recently I have been exploring the use of words as fluid images, using text as the visual."

Organize your resources in an online binder "LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the Web * Collect your resources * Organize them neatly and easily * Present them with pride"

"Moodle and mahara are siters. They support each other."