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Not sure how to get started with ePortfolios for your students? Here's what you need to know. Even before the concept of student portfolios was formalized, teachers collected and shared student work. They used writing folders during conferences or displayed science projects for open house.

Digital portfolios (or e-portfolios) are great tools for students that tick a number of different boxes for teachers. Aside from the obvious advantage of being a web based space to collect student work, it can also serve many other purposes - like tracking progress over time, keeping track of the work done towards meeting Common Core standards, teaching students technology skills, and easily keeping in touch with parents.

186 of the Best YouTube videos for Teachers We've often wondered where we'd be without YouTube. When words and analogies fail us, we often find ourselves turning to YouTube to find commercials, movie clips and TED-Talks lectures to help us reach students in a way that engages them and elucidates abstract concepts.