Author: Amanda K. Bevis

"An electronic portfolio, also known as an e-portfolio or digital portfolio, is a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a user, usually on the Web." - from Reference.com

Introduction

Portfolios have been used for years to showcase student's work. The most common subject areas have been in art and writing. Gauging knowledge and comprehension has been through the traditional question and answer methods. Careful consideration must be taken in preparing assessments to include the appropriate skills of Bloom's taxonomy . Bloom's Digital Taxonomy illustrates skills necessary for the 21st Century learner in correlation to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. An e-portfolio is a tool to capture and display work allowing the learner to use creativity which is at the top in the higher order thinking skills (HOTS).


Popular Services

• Weebly
• Wiki
• Voicethread
• Webs.com
• Google Sites
  

Getting Started
The popular services listed above are free and require a simple login and password. Below is a screen shot from Weebly. After providing a user name and password, all it takes is a quick browse through the tabs and you are ready to set up your site.



Educational Settings

Kristy's Tech Thoughts - a wiki used to create an e-portfolio for an IDT graduate course
Voicethread as a Digital Portfolio - provides instructions and two examples
Technology in Education - (must see) an e-portfolio by a high school senior using Google Sites
an E-Portfolio - a Weebly portfolio

Additional Resources

The Next Killer App? by David Warlick - a blog sharing additional ideas for the future of e-portfolios

E-Portfolios and new Accountability Systems by Helen Barrett

Extended Learning

Bloom's - Creating by Andrew Churches

by Andrew Church,Tech&Learning, Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally

References/Acknowledgments
Barrett, Helen. (May 8, 2009). E-portfolios for learning. Retrieved July 29, 2009 from

http://electronicportfolios.org/blog/2009/05/voicethread-for-eportfolios.html

Churches, Andrew. (2008). Tech&Learning. Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally. Retrieved July 31, 2009 from

http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670

Churches, Andrew. Educational origami. Retrieved July 31, 2009 from http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/About+Me