As we move to more
standards-based teacher performance assessment, we need new tools to
record and organize evidence of successful teaching, for both
practicing professionals and student teachers. Here's information
gotten from:
Dr. Helen Barrett, University of Alaska Anchorage
An Electronic Portfolio uses multimedia technology allowing
students/teachers to collect and organize portfolio artifacts in many media types (audio, video, graphics, text) with
hypermedia links connecting that evidence to the appropriate standards. Students/teachers can publish their Electronic
Portfolios on CD-Recordable discs, video tape or the Internet. The benefits of Electronic Portfolios over traditional
paper-based portfolios are:
1.Makes student work in many media accessible, portable, examinable, widely distributable
2.Makes performances replayable and reviewable; it is important to see more than once
3.Hypertext links allow clear connections between standards and portfolio artifacts
4.Creating an Electronic Portfolio can develop skills in using multimedia technologies
5.A teacher with an electronic portfolio will be more likely to have students with electronic portfolios.
6.It's easier to manage the portfolio process, especially storage, presentation, and duplication
Math Rubric / Math Resource / Math Presentation
Hawaii Accountability Resource Center
My former student, Brandon
Higa, is entering the work force and has prepared himself for the
21st century by creating an e-portfolio. Here are his views:
"As the art, communications, and computer industry moves toward
multimedia and video-based work, an electronic portfolio provides
seamless integration between a person's multimedia work as well as their
traditional work.
The application of multimedia within the context of a portfolio goes far beyond just art and communication. For example, while it is quite difficult to assess how good a speaker someone is from a traditional portfolio, an electronic portfolio can include an audio or video clip of the subject.
Furthermore, electronic portfolios allow "web enablement" or hotlinking of live dynamic content to enhance the usability of a portfolio. A properly created electronic portfolio can be hotlinking of live dynamic content to enhance the usability of a portfolio. A properly created electronic portfolio can be perpetually updated by simply updating the owner's web pages. The recipient of an electronic portfolio would instantly have access to the owner's newest works over the web.
The greatest obstacle in the way of widespread electronic portfolio usage is the lack of affordable software to integrate the different forms of media - audio, video, HTML, etc. Macromedia's Director in their Shockwave Internet Studio is an excellent tool for creating electronic portfolios since it fills the limitations of HTML with its Shockwave technology. Shockwave can create a truly interactive portfolio - from a simple virtual gallery to an interactive movie or "virtual interview." However, Shockwave Internet Studio has a retail cost of about $1000 - way out of the range of the average unemployed job-hunter.
DVD-R technology, if it ever becomes affordable, may be the gap to bridge low-cost and high-flexibility for the electronic portfolio market.
Still, DVD-R technology will not be as affordable as current CD-R technology for another 3-4 years.
Any solution, until it becomes affordable for the average technology for another 3-4 years.
Any solution, until it becomes affordable for the average consumer, will remain in the realm of educational institutions and private for-profit multimedia production firms."
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