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Are Web 2.0 sites Electronic Portfolios friendly?

Posted by: howhat | April 21, 2008 | 5 Comments |



This Post is for the Weekend Workshop happening at ASIJ on April 26, 2008

We will be exposed to several different websites, each with a unique purpose, all are platform independent, working on both Macs and Windows computers. We’ll look at a school which has Electronic Portfolio system in place. Preview some different services and also look at some neat new organizational tools

Once the preview is completed, each will pick a favorite, explore and try it out. We end the session discussing discoveries or disappointments.

Sharing & Beyond

Twitter is a mirco blogging platform. It’s one of the main tools used in researching this workshop. It’s a great tool for continueing our learning on this topic.  Create an account and following many of the educators listed on my twitter account. My link is this http://www.twitter.com/brianlockwood

…and twhirl is a free application for keeping your tweets up to date.

E-Portfolio Example

Shanghai American School uses Wordpress MU for student blogs, a few weeks ago students presented their E-portfolios to their parents.

Framework

edublogs or Wordpress

Video, Collaboration & Graphics

Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music.


VoiceThread

Here’s an example of a thread used in a Kindergarten Classroom

and here’s a demo example of how to use it. School’s have free and protected access to all of VoiceThread’s feature sets.

Scrapblog

Neat tools but…. why would I use them?

Evernote and my shared notes and some other shared notes from one of our History teachers

GetDropBox is not in beta, we’re limited to watching this informational video.

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Great examples on a great post, Brian. Glad to see this.

   By: Clay Burell on April 28, 2008
at 7:14 am

Two great tools I found this year are Issuu and scribd. Both allow for students to create online magazines and showcase their work.

My student examples this year can be found at http://www.sp08eportfolios.wikispaces.com.

They were a little bulky this year. I need to prune them for next year. My reflections on the whole event can be found at http://makeitinteresting.blogspot.com/2008/04/e-portfolios-year-2-what-i-have-learned.html

Thanks for a great post.

   By: Chris Harbeck on April 28, 2008
at 7:23 am

Chris & Clay,

Thanks for the comments, I’m glad I waited for my reflection piece as I’ll be sure to include your comprehensive site on e-portfolios.

   By: brian Lockwood on April 28, 2008
at 2:10 pm

Hi Brian – saw your comment on Kim’s post about starting out so had to come across and say hi. For someone who has just set set up this blog you’ve done really well with the embedding as it can be tricky. May have to get you to do the embeds in my posts :)

   By: Sue Waters on April 29, 2008
at 5:52 am

Konnichi wa (I hope that is the correct greeting).

This look at e-portfolios looks to be very useful. I’ll have to come back and take a look.

The Voicethread visually looks to be very appealing. I cannot imagine my daughter’s kindergarten class using it yet, so I’ll have to take a look and see about passing the information on to their teachers.

I may be inspired the next time I teach my graduate course to have them develop an e-portfolio with resources from the course.

I am posting as part of the 31 Day Challenge, in response to Day 24, posting to a foreign country, instead of in a foreign language.

   By: drdyer on May 26, 2008
at 3:07 am

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