E-portfolio are a great way to collect student
work and share it with others. These
portfolios allow teachers to view student work and allow students to organize
and manage their activities better. In
the past, students in my class were given folders to organize their assignments
but folders required more organization, space and a delivery system for every
class which takes time away from instruction.
All student work can be kept in an e-file and this allows for more
activities to be accessed and managed way better than folders. E-portfolios are safe for students because
paper assignments can get lost or unidentified if students did not complete
their class heading. E-portfolios are backed
up every time the student uses their chrome book so there are no accidental
deletions.
Student progress is the best way to keep
student work rather than only keeping the student’s best work. Keeping a series of essay draft copies can
show the process the student is comfortable with instead of looking at a
finished essay that has been edited and spell checked by the program or
teacher. When students only see the
final essay product, they tend to forget all the hard work it took them to get
to their finished product.
Whenever we begin a new DBQ project, students
need to organize what they will write in their final essay and they will create
a strategy that will follow the directions for the essay. A portfolio provides students with their work
in process and they have a sense of accomplishment and pride because they are
not trying to write a 4-5 paragraph essay the night before their project is
due. Students in my classes can keep
their essay work on their portfolios and I can have access their portfolios
whenever I need to view them for their content or progress.
As we are using more google classroom
activities, student files could be shared with other students and they could
access it as well. The parent connection
can also be very important because the files could be shared with parents
on-line or if the parent happens to be in for a conference, teachers could
easily bring up work samples to share with student parents or guardians.
Digital
Student Portfolios
Since portfolios should be
more than just a teaching tool, students should be encouraged to use photos or
work samples to help them bring back positive memories they had in school. School or personal photos would enhance that
type of experience and give the student a basis to show off their portfolio
with other individuals.
After reading this article I
did some research regarding the Evernote app.
It is an amazing tool and it’s amazing how much stuff is available to
the user. Although it was a great tool
the down side to me was my inability to hand over complete control of decision
making on what to archive to the kids. I
understand sharing the control, but not having physical control would be
difficult for me. I don’t think my
students would always make good decisions when it comes to archiving items and
my fear would be for them to keep something insignificant and delete something
I thought would be important.
After looking at a couple
other tools, I will set up portfolios for my struggling students and allow
these students the option of completing their activities partially in class and
at home. I like the bulb app because it is teacher
controlled, and students have the choices over what goes into it and who can
see it. I also like the security of the
tool as well as the compatibility. This
tool seems to work with any operating system that we have access to such as Microsoft
products or those that want to work with google can utilize it.
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