Tech Thursdays - Week 2: March 7 - Using an Electronic Portfolio

Using An E-folio

Reasons you might want to use an electronic portfolio system:

• Allows for more feedback (from teachers, peers, parents...), increasing learning
• Summative assessments in a portfolio show student performance; they are not a proxy of student performance (grades)
• Provides students with a place for self-reflection
• Creates a place where people can see growth over time (possibly years)
• Allows for better conversations to happen around learning/performance, as opposed to the limiting conversations about grades
• Allows for easy sharing of various media (audio, video, text, images...), organized into pages, by need. Each portfolio page can be created and shared independently, tailored to meet specific needs. (For example a student might want to share their acting portfolio page in order to apply for a summer theater institute.)
• Helps students take ownership of their learning. They are in charge of building their portfolio pages; they are in control of their pages and they decide when and with whom to share these pages.

About the Mahara efolio system (the system we're using):

Students have one portfolio. This portfolio is made up of student-created pages. They can create as many pages as they need. These can be organized and searched with the use of tags. Pages can be shared with people in and out of the efolio system. Students are in full control of their portfolio which means they control the sharing of pages. A student does not necessarily share a whole portfolio, but instead, shares pages.

Pages can contain external content, like a YouTube video, Prezi or VoiceThread, for example. They can also contain content that is in the students’ Files section of the portfolio, such as an image or audio file.

You can log into the system at https://aisb.lunsvle.co.uk/ or from start.aisbudapest.org (last link above second video). Ask Bill if you need an account.

Help videos can be found on the MS Tech Site Home Page, in the Resources area (bottom, center) where it says E-folio Help Videos. (You need to be logged into the Google system to view these videos).