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Digital Portfolios

Portfolios have always been a useful summative assessment for highlighting students' growth and performance over a long period of time. Digital portfolios do exactly the same, with the added benefit of showcasing students' developing skills in using technology. By making portfolios available online, parents can see their students' work more readily as well. 

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Assessing Digital Portfolios
Platforms
Supporting Examples and Resources

Goals: objectives are aligned with state standards and the NETS*S

  • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.6-W.11-12.6
     

Rubrics/Checklists: 

  • Measurable categories on the rubric or checklist

  • Checklists - list of artifacts students must include 

    • E.g., "Include a piece of your work that shows your growth in math this year."

  • Rubrics - list specific categories (content, format, and conventions) and a rating system

Edublogs: Ms. Cassidy's 1st Grade Class

South Prairie Schools

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

  • Students upload photos, videos, and text boxes to their personal blogs that serve as digital portfolios of their work in all subject areas. 

  • Teacher monitors posts and provides clarifications of words in parentheses when needed for readers to understand the post. 

  • Students explore multiple technologies (e.g., Twitter, iPads, photo/video uploads, etc.) in their blog posts.

  • See here for a sample student blog ('Allie's Learning').

  • See here for Kathy Cassidy's reasons of support for why her students have digital portfolios.

Citation:

Cassidy, Kathy. Ms. Cassidy's Classroom Blog. N.p., Sept. 2012. Web. 3 Mar. 2014.

Student Digital Portfolios. Animas High School, Boulder, CO. 2013. Web. 12 Mar. 2014

Weebly: Graduation Portfolios

Animas High School

Boulder, Colorado, United States

  • Throughout their high school careers, students upload poignant assisgnments and projects from a majority of their courses

  • The portfolios have a high emphasis on visual presentation and clarity, thus including many pictures and other graphics

  • Students use Weebly as their platform, allowing much room for personal expression while still having a template to follow

  • See here for the main portfolio directory

  • See here for a sample student portfolio (Rainer Ford's
       Digital Portfolio)

Incorporating in the Classroom

  • ​For all grade levels, follow the guidelines set forth in "Blogs" and "Websites" pages on this website.

    • Elementary: structure, modeling

    • Secondary: guidelines, modeling, choice
       

  • Length of Time: on-going throughout the semester or year to gather portfolio artifacts
     

  • Artifacts: can consist of both digitally-created items and "hard copy" items that are made digital (take a picture with an iPad, scan into the computer, etc.)

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