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The Prime Directives for an e-Portfolio: 10 essentials and features of ePortfolios. 06/08/08

Portfolio Assignments in Teacher Education: A Tool For Self-regulating the Learning Process? "This study examines the effects of a portfolio programme on self-regulation – and thus among third year students of teacher education training to be secondary school teachers. ... The study indicates a significant increase in self-regulation. The portfolio programme therefore improves students’ capacity to go through their learning process independently ...The comparison of the students’ own opinions with those of the portfolio supervisors also reveals the weak links in the self-regulation cycle. Students have difficulty evaluating and re-orientating their learning process. It also appears that students do not set and/or implement new objectives themselves, which means that they cannot regulate their own learning process on a completely independent basis because they have not thoroughly mastered all the components of the self-regulation cycle." [Quote is from the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning]. 08/23/07

Helen Barrett (Ms. Barrett does so much great work with e-Portfolios, and shares it so willingly, that she gets a whole section of her own on my page :)

Creating ePortfolios with Web 2.0 Tools: More excellent help from Helen Barrett. This page links to Tools, Sample Portfolios, and Help/Instructions. Excellent! 03/31/07

REQUIRING Student Portfolios? Helen Barrett Required High School Portfolios, Electronic Portfolios June 16, 2006. Stephen Downes said, "Helen Barrett and I are of one mind on this, and I really like the story she tells to illustrate the point: 'The students there were required to set up a 3-ring notebook, put in specific sections and assignments. When a group of the students graduated from high school, they built a bonfire and burned their portfolios.' The issue is ownership. When students are required to create portfolios, and worse, told how they should be structured and filled, they lose any ownership over the process, and the portfolios become, as Barrett reports, "another example of what Lee Shulman calls 'perversion' of the original concept of the portfolio." 06/16/06

Portfolios in High Schools - to "e" or not to "e": BC Campus.ca describes this recorded webcast, available at the BCCampus website: "Dr. Helen Barrett, keynote speaker for the BCEd Online Conference in April, gives a brief overview of the literature on the electronic portfolio development process and highlights several strategies that enable reflection: blogging and digital storytelling." 05/29/05

Electronic Portfolio FAQs: A huge resource site by Helen C. Barrett, Ph.D, an internationally-known expert on Electronic Portfolio Development for learners of all ages. "I frequently receive e-mails asking different questions about electronic portfolios. I realize that many of the answers are buried on my website. So this page contains links to specific pages or websites where these answers can be found." 05/29/05

E-Portfolios for Learning: Dr. Barrett (above) hosts a blog about ePorfolios. " I have created this blog to discuss my ideas on electronic portfolios to support lifelong learning. I hope to share some of my concerns about the current direction of electronic portfolios in High Education and K-12 schools." 05/29/05

ElectronicPortfolios.org: A site from Dr. Helen Barrett, "internationally-known expert on Electronic Portfolio Development for learners of all ages." Site has several links to "information about Electronic Portfolio Development", and much more. 05/15/04

Electronic Portfolio Distance Education Class: An online course all about how to develop ePortfolios, instructed by Dr. Helen Barrett (see link above this one). The course consists of several modules, and you can see a good sampling of her course materials at this site. "Developing and using an electronic portfolio. For one credit, students create an electronic portfolio, selecting from a variety of strategies for development, organization, storage and presentation. Second credit includes adding digital audio and video clips to the portfolio. Third credit covers reading assignments, issues, and research on electronic portfolio development for a variety of ages and situations, including useful criteria for evaluating portfolios based on national or local standards." 05/15/04

Directions for ePortfolio Research: "Graduate students preparing research on electronic portfolios have often asked what questions need to be explored about electronic portfolios. Here is the beginning of a list by practitioners in the field. Send your questions to hbarrett@iste.org and they will be posted to this page, along with your e-mail address for further clarification." 05/03/04

Engagement with Electronic Portfolios: Challenges from the Student Perspective: " While it is generally agreed that e-portfolios have great potential to engage students and promote deep learning, the research that has been conducted to date focuses very little on student perceptions of value of the e-portfolio for their learning. If students do not accept the e-portfolio as a holistic means with which to document their learning in different contexts and more importantly, agree or wish to use the e-portfolio as an integral part of their educational experience, then the potential impact the e-portfolio will have on learning will not be realised. This paper highlights four themes arising out of research that is underway within an international framework of collaboration between the University of Edinburgh, the University of British Columbia and the University of Waterloo." 04/09/06

The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What's it All About? Greta Holt (see her own exemplary portfolio, done in the Segue CMS) says this "...is a great resource to explain the use of ePortfolios. The emphasis is on the evolution of this dynamic tool that can help learners and instructors constantly maintain accomplishments, evaluate development (learning/teaching) and is used for reflection to set goals in all aspects of one's life. ...In summary an ePortfolio is associated with assessment, accreditation, reflection, student resumes, and career tracking." NOTE: At the end of that page they have included a large linked list of ePortfolio tools now available or in production. 10/30/05

Recognising Learning: Educational and pedagogic issues in e-Portfolios: A paper presented by Graham Attwell at the e-Portfolio conference in Cambridge at the end of October/05. "It is argued that insufficient attention has been paid to the pedagogy of e-portfolio development and that existing applications and implementations tend to be overly dominated by the requirements of assessment. The paper looks at the different pedagogic processes involved in the development of an e-portfolio. It considers the competences required for developing and maintaining an e-portfolio. The final section considers the challenges in developing e-portfolio applications." 10/14/05

An Overview of E-Portfolios: An article from Educause Learning Initiative. "Three types of e-portfolios are described in this report: student e-portfolios, teaching e-portfolios, and institutional e-portfolios. ...This report defines and categorizes e-portfolios, offers examples of higher education e-portfolio implementations, reviews e-portfolio technology, and addresses adoption issues." 07/30/05

Developing and Implementing a Methodology for Reviewing E-portfolio Products: "A report encompassing a review of existing e-portfolio software applications in use in the UK, and a synthesis of literature reviews on e-portfolio systems." 07/03/06

Canada Developing Student Electronic Portfolios: An online workshop page by David Brear. David links to articles, assessment ideas, many resources sites. He also illustrates examples of student created portfolios, Grade 2/3 and Grade 8; he examines different software that can be used to create portfolios; and he identifies Web sites that can help in the understanding and creation of portfolios. 04/03/05

Electronic Portfolios and Dimensions of Learning: A short article that attempts to "show a direct link between electronic portfolios and the dimensions of learning." 03/18/05

ePortfolios ~ a portal site: "The ePortfolio Portal serves as a resource to assist you in gaining knowledge around the concepts of eportfolios." Includes a GLOSSARY, and topics like What is an eportfolio?; What does it do?; Where can I look?; and more. 12/03/04

The ePortfolio Boom: What's It All About? "The term "electronic portfolio," or "ePortfolio," is on everyone's lips. We often hear it associated with assessment, but also with accreditation, reflection, student resumes, and career tracking. It's as if this new tool is the answer to all the questions we didn't realize we were asking." 10/17/04

Sample Portfolios, Student & Faculty from Chalk & Wire. When you get to this site, check the right column for links to sample portfolios. 10/17/04

ERADC - ePortfolio Research & Development Community: Created by David Tosh, a researcher on Electronic Portfolios at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, ERADC "has been set up to provide a reference point for interested parties to contribute and learn more about e-portfolios and developments that may impact on the e-portfolio." 10/17/04

Blogs discussing e-portfolios in education:

Canada BC Ministry of Education's Graduation Portfolio website: "Graduation Portfolio is a four-credit graduation requirement for Graduation Program [beginning with students who enter grade 10 in 2004]. It is designed for delivery over three years. During grades 10 to 12, students create portfolio evidence based on six Portfolio Organizers: Arts and Design; Community Involvement and Responsibility; Education and Career Planning; Employability Skills; Information Technology; Personal Health." 10/17/04

Portfolios to Webfolios and Beyond: Levels of Maturation: "Webfolios may have the most significant effect on education since the introduction of formal schooling. When fully matured and implemented by capable professional educators throughout every discipline in an educational institution, webfolios promise a viable alternative to current, high-stakes testing, which focuses education on test-taking rather than teaching and learning. The promise webfolios hold-a richer educational experience for all-will not be realized, however, unless educators embrace webfolio concepts and apply them at their highest level of maturation." 05/15/04

ERADC (ePortfolio Research & Development Community): " This community has been set up to provide a reference point for interested parties to contribute and learn more about ePortfolios and developments that may impact on the ePortfolio. Many view the ePortfolio as the future of learning, a powerful aid for personal development. The ePortfolio can serve as a tool for learning, assessment, career management and knowledge supervision." 05/03/04

ePort Consortium: "...the collaboration of higher education and IT institutions working to define, design, and develop electronic portfolio software environment and management systems. From a conceptual perspective, developing members are working to invent a new electronic portfolio application environment to address various ePortfolios needs. From the technical standpoint, the ePortConsortium desires to encourage collaboration among IT institutions to define and adopt interoperability and transportability measures and standards when building prototypes to test potential scenarios and conceptual environments. If successful in this effort, electronic portfolio systems created by commercial software companies and those built by educational institutions will be compatible. In the interest of accomplishing these goals, the ePortConsortium appreciates your participation and welcomes your input." 05/03/04

Definition and Importance of Electronic Portfolios: "Many students already produce portfolios for various uses, such as reflection, communication with instructors, or presenting examples of outstanding work and credentials to potential employers. Their use has the potential to transform teaching and learning so that it is more learner centered and outcomes oriented. Architects, artists, and others have long used portfolios to show their visual work, while other professionals (for example, musicians) use them to demonstrate their creative talents." 04/29/04

Electronic Portfolios: Blending Technology, Accountability & Assessment: "Portfolio-based assessment and, more recently, the electronic portfolio have been seen as an alternative to standardized tests. An e-portfolio collects student work for individual teachers to grade and critique. ... e-portfolios...combine individual student work with standards-based assessment, while also organizing and indexing student data. This article highlights the collaboration between a public school and an educational software firm to create an e-portfolio project that would achieve these goals." 04/26/04

Tools for ePortfolios (creating, storing, hosting, etc.)

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Campus Technology has a long list of ePortfolio tools now available or in production. See the bottom of the page I've linked you to. 10/30/05

Concord's Masterfile: "The ePortfolio module has four primary components: Personal Storage Area with features that allow users to share their digital items; Display Portfolio allows users without any HTML skills to assemble attractive portfolios; Competency Assessment provides guidance and monitoring of student competencies; Personal Development Planner allows students to assemble a learning plan that suits their targeted careers." 04/29/04

ePortfolio 2010: Objective: by 2010 "every citizen will have an ePortfolio". Includes links to EuroPortfolio, Lifia (forum d'Innovations d'Appretissage), and EiFe-l (Building a Learning Europe). This site is rather uninformative at the moment, even after you join and log in. But it does say it's still underdevelopemtn and it looks to have a lot of potential. 11/20/04

ePortfolioT with RubricMarkerT: Point and click authoring of professional web-based portfolios. File hosting with unlimited save space per user account. Powerful performance analysis and reporting. Generates aggregate and disaggregate data given demographic variables. 10/17/04

Canada Graduation Portfolio Workbook (for BC ,Canada): "The Graduation Portfolio Workbook focuses on the mandatory core aspects of the six prescribed Portfolio Organizers as well as the student presentation that must be completed by all students planning to graduate. This Workbook was developed for teachers of students with learning challenges to clarify the required core aspects and presentation components. The Graduation Portfolio process encourages students to gather and present evidence of skills, knowledge and competencies that will support a successful transition beyond Grade 12. The authors felt that once students clearly understood the process and became engaged in it, they could confidently proceed to explore choice aspects that best reflect their talents, interests, and abilities. This Workbook has been designed as an electronic workbook. ...All the files related to the Graduation portfolio are available for download. To download, click on item in list on the left." 04/04/06

MAPS "is the solution to key stage 3, key stage 2 and key stage 4 assessment. Where before portfolio based assessment has been expensive, impractical and time consuming, MAPS makes the whole process a breeze. 10/17/04

Pupil Pages: A commercial ePortfolio product from OS4E - Online Solutions for Educators. 10/17/04

iWebfolio: NuVentive's "web based tool that gives individuals a personalized, flexible online portfolio to store and present a lifetime's worth of educational and professional experience. iWebfolio also helps faculty members, departments, and schools meet institutional and accrediting goals, review student work, and provide feedback. iWebfolio can be accessed over the Internet using a standard Web browser-anytime, anywhere." 04/29/04

TaskStream: TaskStream's Web Folio Builder is a web-based tool that "makes it easy for students to create, organize, and share electronic portfolios that demonstrate standards compliance for certification," and "enables educators to design lessons and units, map and track standards, create rubrics, develop electronic portfolios, and compile and distribute shared curriculum resources." 04/29/04

 
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