This learning material is an eportfolio website created by CEP810 –Teaching for Understanding with Technology students in the MAET Program at Michigan State University using the Digication platform. The website it laid out in eportfolio format as a guide for helping teachers help high school students organize their eportfolios.
Type of Material:
Reference material for creating eportfolios, finding funding for eportfolio implementation and examples of eporfolios in the classroom.
Recommended Uses:
This website is good place to start learning about eportfolios, probably more beneficial from the teacher perspective as to how they could use the assessment tool in their classroom but also a good place to find ideas and funding for implementation.
Technical Requirements:
Internet connection and speakers or headset for video demonstrations/explanations.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
• How to implement ePortfolios in the High School classroom.
• ePortfolio as a useful compilation and organization of individual student work.
• ePortfolio for assessment across multiple subjects as evidence of the quality of work
• ePortfolio as a classroom management strategy.
• ePortfolio resources
Target Student Population:
The website is directed toward high school teachers or administrators interested in alternative assessment but could be useful at any level.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
None.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The examples, videos and testimonials help make the concept of eportfolios easily understandable for the uninitiated and the resources suggested are very comprehensive.
Concerns:
• While many of the resources are modern (within 5 years), one article was cited as a 2011 resource when in fact it was from 2007. This brings into question whether the other citations are valid. With the rapid change in technology that particular article is highly outdated. Herring, D., Hibbs, R., Morgan, B. & Notar, C. (2007). Show What You Know: ePortfolios for 21st Century Learners. In R. Carlsen et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (pp. 86-92). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
• The material is hard to follow because the vertical links are not very noticeable.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
• The material provides lots of resources making it easy to integrate into assignments.
• Since this material is a website that incorporates hierarchical branching it is easy to navigate around and get a lot of the information quickly.
• The hyperlinks within the text makes it easy to demonstrate the relationships between concepts.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The website navigation is clearly labeled and fairly easy to navigate, most pages are no longer that a screen and half. Plenty of visuals and video are provided for clear explanations of topics and concepts.
Concerns:
Outside links do not open in new windows so it is necessary to use the back arrow to get back to the eportfolio website so it is easy to get lost on the Internet if the user becomes involved in an outside website.
Also the eportfolio model image is very small and not readable at the average resolution. Linking the model directly to the website of the model creator would make readable.
Material needs proofreading.
Other Issues and Comments:
The platform used to create this particular e-portfolio example, Digication, is not a free service.
Creative Commons:
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