This week, we are talking about the use of digital portfolios in the classroom. We'll explore why you would want to use portfolios, how to assess or evaluate portfolios, and our best tips and suggestions to make portfolios a success in your classroom.
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- Why Use Portfolios?
- Fits well with ungrading or mastery-based grading
- Demonstrates the learning journey by student-selected work
- Great as a final performance task
- Works best as a semester or year-long project
- Focus on reflection, student voice & choice, ownership
- Any grade, any subject
- Rachel's blogging assignment
- UDL - buffet of multimedia options (Katie Novak)
- Curriculum
- Select work from each strand (ESL)
- Explaining misconceptions (Science) or lab notebooks
- Regardless, it develops thinking, metacognition, problem solving skills
- Useful EdTech Tools
- Google Sites
- Google Slides (Templates from Slides Mania)
- Book Creator
- Wakelet
- LMS (Brightspace portfolio tool)
- Notion
- Screencasting/Curation tools (Screencastify) - see E068 for curation ideas
- Audio tools (Mote, Vocaroo, Google Read&Write) - see E050 for other audio ideas
- Tips/Strategies for Implementation
- Limit the number of pieces of work to highlight (adds creative constraints)
- Include a list of possible reflection prompts
- Include conferences/interviews at regular intervals
- Focus on the process not on the product
- Grade it only when needed (midterm, final)
- Conferencing prep example - Evidence Journals from the Human Restoration Project
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