Overview of Electronic Portfolios
Electronic portfolios allow teachers or students to share their work with a larger audience. It is an excellent way for a teacher to track student progress and evaluation. Pre-service teachers also use electronic portfolios to highlight their own performance and skills. Many graduates of teacher education programs have used electronic portfolios in their search for teaching positions.
With traditional portfolios, folders, boxes, or 3-ring binders can hold paper, pictures, cassette tapes, and more. With an electronic portfolio, information can be stored digitally on a computer hard drive or removable media (floppy disk, Zip drive, CD, DVD, etc.), or in many cases, made available on the World Wide Web. This electronic information takes up very little physical space and, if designed wisely, is easily accessed and browsed.
You may want to peruse the Faculty of Education's criteria for designing electronic portolios in Teacher Education.
Examples of Student Portfolios
Helpful links regarding Electronic Portfolios
- Creating and Using Electronic Portfolios - On the Alphabet Superhighway
- Electronic Portfolios - By Yolanda Abrenica
- Electronic Teaching Portfolios - A look at strategies for developing electronic portfolios
- What to Consider When Planning for Electronic Portfolios - An article by Helen C. Barrett
- Electronic Teaching Portfolios - Using PDF Format
- Student Teaching Electronic Portfolios - California State University