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Be realistic about your design and expectations. • Make use of relevant models. • Instill a sense of ownership in the students creating the portfolios. • Communicate implementation strategies and timelines clearly. • Be selective in design and strategy. • Allow for continuous improvement and growth. • Incorporate assessment stakeholders in all phases and components of your efforts; that is, make sure portfolio content meets the needs of those assessing the work.

purposeful collection

. Over time, a student selects items from the working portfolio and uses them to create a display portfolio. Finally, the student develops an assessment portfolio, containing examples of his or her best work, as well as an explanation of why each work is significant.

Is student work easily organized by date, course or some other category?

Can students view and comment on each other's work?

it can be time-consuming and often frustrating to transfer student work to another platform.

They love that they have an audience and even more, they love to get comments about their work

Gradually, we begin to add drawings and use other media to show our learning, such as video, Audioboo (for voice recordings or podcasts) and Storybird (to make embeddable storybooks).  We have also used tools such as Animationish and the ScreenChomp app for the iPad. We have taken pictures of posters or other things they have made, or posted combinations of these if we feel that using only one tool is not adequate to show what we can do.

there are no big surprises at our student led-conferences.

In my experience, I have found it helpful when getting started with digital portfolios to categorize them based on purpose.

It is crucial that we approach digital portfolios not as “just another thing,” but as both the vehicle and the fuel to approach the future of education, which is an accomplishment culture driven by solving real problems and pursuing unique growth opportunities for each learner.

The website becomes the tool by which to tell their "learning story." We'll end our year by reflecting and setting new goals for high school.

The website becomes the tool by which to tell their "learning story." We'll end our year by reflecting and setting new goals for high school.

research has shown that schools that incorporate portfolios as a teaching and learning initiative typically have more success than those that view them primarily as a technology project.

Students must understand the standards.

Students must understand what it means to reflect