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 the presentation below of parts of my son’s portfolio from 2006.

Portfolio articles from the beginning

• Templates For Categories (teachnbabble.com)
• Getting Ready (teachnbabble.com)
• Getting Ready-Part 1 (teachnbabble.com)
• Finding a Path (teachnbabble.com)
• Fork In The Path (teachnbabble.com)
• Getting Ready Part 2 (teachnbabble.com)
• Blogroll Revisited (teachnbabble.com)