Day 8

ePortfolios are a wonderful innovation that I want to try. I don't yet have the resources to make it work--we just have one overused lab at work.  However, I could do it on a lesser scale than the amount of work in the paper and pencil portfolio.  We keep DAP folders that catalog student work from freshman through senior year.  They aren't considered very important by students if they don't use them very much. I confess I haven't been very consistent with them. If I could put students in charge of "filing" their own work on a computer, it would be more practical.  

We also have the issue of lost or misplaced folders. We have to figure out how to get them from one teacher to another when students have various teachers. If we kept all work in a folder on the server and then could go in and just move the folders, it might be easier and more accurate.

Teacher portfolios were in vogue when I graduated with my BS in 1997. I created one and it was handed back to me with the comment that my cover was not creative enough.  I liked it. It was simple with a picture of me and my name. Hmm.  An ePotfolio might give me more incentive to be creative, or perhaps my way of doing things would be more acceptable.