How
to Create your Own Electronic Portfolio and Using
Technology to Support Alternative Assessment and Electronic Portfolios
by Dr. Helen Barrett
Dr. Barrett is a
recognized authority on electronic portfolios, including those for
teachers, identified as professional electronic portfolios. Dr. Barrett
has an extremely comprehensive set of resources and links related to
this topic, particularly as used for students and in alternative
assessment. There are even videos and audio files as part of her
resources.
Dr. Barrett also has this resource, Electronic Portfolios = Multimedia
Development + Portfolio Development, The
Electronic Portfolio Development Process, 1999, 2000. Included
is a section on Evaluating
Electronic Portfolios that might be useful.
Portfolio
Library: Planning and Design Guide by Martin Kimeldorf
Mr. Kimeldorf has an
extensive site with links that step the user through the
conceptualization and development stages in preparing an electronic
protfolio, particularly a professional eport. His exercises guide the
potential user through some of the considerations in planning the eport
and actually producing it. Very practical.
Educational
Placement File and University of Iowa's ePortfolio Project
There is useful
information on this site, including notes and suggestions related to
the professional electronic portfolio as part of the hiring
process.
Electronic Portfolio Consortium
The Electronic Portfolio Consortium, or
ePortConsortium, is an association of individuals -- from 56 countries
and more than 600 higher education and IT commercial institutions --
who are interested in the development of academic ePortfolio software
systems and the establishment of standards for such systems.
Electronic
Portfolios: Students, Teachers and Life-long Learners from Eduscapes.com
This site covers topics
such as "What is a digital or electronic portfolio?" and "How can I
develop a teacher portfolio?". It also has some good information
on incorporating various types of media in the eports.
Electronic
Portfolios for Teacher Education in Sciences and Humanities from
Virginia Tech University
The Department of Teaching
and Learning in the College of Liberal Arts has provided a resource for
their students that may be useful to teachers interested in developing
their own professional electronic portfolios.
The
Professional Portfolio by Scholastic Magazine
Scholastic has provided,
in this article, some suggestions for what should be included in a
professional portfolio. Also included are guidelines for collecting and
organizing to do the work required for a professional portfolio.
Ready2Net - 2002 Program 4:
Teaching, Learning & Assignment with E-Portfolios (Broadcast Date,
10/24/2002)
This is a streaming media
site, part of the video archives from Ready2Net, a resource developed
and supported by The University of California at Monterey, produced in cooperation
with the National
Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) & the Electronic Portfolio
Action Committee.(E-PAC). The original
satellite cast was in October 2002 and is archived on the Ready2Net
site. The Web Cast requires Windows Media Player or other plug-in
allowing streaming media. Here's the description from the web
site:
TEACHING, LEARNING & ASSESSMENT WITH E-PORTFOLIOS
Hear Experts Discuss the Teaching &
Learning Issues Associated with E-Portfolios—
Why
do we need e-portfolios? What are they good for? What are the
pedagogical benefits?
What should the content standards be?
Learn
about the Challenges of E-Portfolios in Higher Education—
What are the key challenges in moving from paper transcripts to those
that include e-portfolios? What are the short and long-term policy
implications of e-portfolios (security, privacy & access, long-term
legal implications, definition of official record, need for
institutional gatekeepers?) Are there guidelines for influencing
vendors to meet higher education’s needs?
Join
experts as they consider these technical issues: How can existing
technologies be used to design effective e-portfolios? How can
e-portfolios be integrated into existing enterprise systems (student
information systems)?
Newbie
Tech Writer: Portfolios
This site makes a good case for electronic portfolios for a
particular
set of careers, but it also includes some really good 'tips' for using
an electronic portfolio in your job search.
Portfolio Composition,
Unity College, ME
This site
includes some good suggestions for critical components. Consider these
items for your own professional portfolio, even though this was
designed for undergraduates exiting college. The links to the examples
do not work now, but the list is still useful for consideration.
Sample
Resumes from Jobweb.com
