The definition of a digital portfolio according to Transforming Learning With New Technologies is a collection of educational and professional materials stored in an electronic format. Teachers and students can use digital portfolios in multiple ways. Teachers can use it as a way to store different project ideas so they can reuse it in the future. They can also use it as a way to build a resume for future teaching jobs and opportunities, and they can use it as a way to help their students record their progress and in the process increase their technology skills. Students can use it in order to display their work with their peers throughout the world and reach a wider audience.
Photo Credit: Wesley Fryer
Tech Tool Link: iLife
iLife is a software designed by and for apple that is used to store photos, but you can also edit those photos and use texts. This is a great tool to use to create a digital portfolio for students, especially photography. This is great because you can design it and make videos and make a very interactive portfolio.
As a future educator I think that digital portfolios are a great idea and would definitely incorporate it in my class. It is great to save students' work and a way to come them wanting to do more and be creative. it also helps in assessing their work and makes it easy for my teaching to be assessed by looking at my student's work. Just as Chapter 11 of Transforming Learning With New Technologies mentions.
Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2011). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
Digital portfolios are being used in some classrooms today and it is interesting to see student growth over the years. As students grow older (and for teachers, as well), it will be just as important to add the reflection of what happened in that growth, why it is vital, etc.
ReplyDelete