Blogfolio mechanics is done. Need to look more at why?

I have been looking a lot at how we could setup an Eportfolio using WordPress a short post on why.

In 2010 I had students create a portfolio using WordPress. Earlier this week I resurrected one of the blogs created by Justine so the grade seven team had an example of what a blog based portfolio looks like. Although she is no longer at SSIS you can see this on her blog:

  • comments from teachers from other countries via #commentsforkids and twitter (Special comments)
  • exploration of digital literacy with her posts on Facebook Privacy and Digital Identity One and Two
  • a series of, self selected, reflections for her eportfolio that shows that she could embed pdf files and videos she created in other classes. She has a number of these I have selected one that has both a video and a pdf file embedded in the document.
  • human rights presentation from Humanities Class
  • blog post on a collaborative programming project that she took part in with a Middle School in Michigan

The educational benefits of portfolios are obvious.

As a parent the benefits are obvious as well as you can see in Keynote below containing parts of my son’s portfolio from 2006.

Portfolio Parents from Gary Bertoia on Vimeo.

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