5 Reasons Your Portfolio Should Be A Blog. Earlier this year, I wrote five reasons why your portfolio should be online. As I do more work and sharing with portfolios, I think it is important to actually going one step further and talk about the benefits of why a “blog” specifically is beneficial as a portfolio. If you are interested in doing this, I created a video years ago that simply breaks down the process. If you know how to blog, it is just a matter of reimagining the space, not tearing down something you might have already done. Blogging for me has been hugely beneficial for my learning, because of the power to not only think of an audience (making me think deeper about what I write), but also about connecting with the audience.
As more areas look to do portfolios at either the school, district, or state/provincial level, it would be easy to look to services that make the portfolio for you, where you just drag and drop your information. 1. Understanding the Evolution of E-Portfolio Practice: Where Do We Go from Here? According to ECAR’s annual study of undergraduate students and IT, seven times as many students reported using e-portfolios in 2012 to facilitate their academic success as compared to 2010 (52% versus 7%).
To better understand this marked growth, researchers have employed both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate how e-portfolio practice by institutions, faculty, and students is evolving in higher education. This webinar will highlight emerging findings from several sources including the annual membership survey of the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) and LaGuardia Community College’s Connect to Learning project.
Understanding the Evolution of E-Portfolio Practice: Where Do We Go from Here? January 13, 2014 Time: 10:00am – 11:00am. MOOC to explore digital badges’ role in online learning, professional credentials. E-Learning Feeds is ranking and scoring hundreds of Top e-Learning blogs, while helping e-Learning oriented readers to answer the question "What’s happening in the e-Learning industry" on a daily basis based on the Top e-Learning Blogs.
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Assessing Student Progress Using Blog-Based Porfolios. Editor’s note: Kathy Cassidy is the author of a new book from Powerful Learning Press, Connected from the Start: Global Learning in the Primary Grades. During a recent webinar (free archive here), Kathy shared many ideas from Chapter 5 of the book, “Using Blogs as Digital Portfolios.” The webinar was rich in content and full of great discussion — so much so that there simply wasn’t time for Kathy to share her thoughts, in depth, about where formative and summative assessments might fit into this digital blog/portfolio model.
So we’ve asked her to write this article. Much as she does in her eBook, she’s included short videos, useful downloads, and links to other valuable resources. ~ John Norton A Great Tool to Continuously Assess Progress by Kathy Cassidy In my classroom, each of my grade one and grade two students has their own blog. Formative Assessment I am continually doing formative assessment in my classroom — that is, assessment for learning. Verbal explanations Summative Assessment. ePortfolio Initiative » Why Use ePortfolios?
Flexible in both their content and their form, ePortfolios are currently used in a wide variety of disciplines for a number of reasons such as: Enhancing student learning through selection of artifacts and reflection upon them Tracing the individual learning path of the ePortfolio owner Documenting learner achievement of specific learning outcomes within a course or programme Documenting learning achievements for employment/graduate school applications It has been argued that portfolio practice, as an educational process, is rewarding and engaging and fits the times: