1. Creating Electronic Portfolios using PowerPoint
Darina Glover-Russell
Area 7 Technology Trainer

2. What is an Electronic Portfolio?
A portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that exhibits the student's efforts, progress and achievements in one or more areas.
The collection must include student participation in selecting contents, the criteria for selection; the criteria for judging merit, and evidence of student self-reflection.
Educators in the Pacific Northwest, through the Northwest Evaluation Association (1990)

3. Electronic Portfolios…
Are selective and purposeful collections of students’ work
Focus on students’ reflection of their work
Provide records of learning, growth, and change
Provide meaningful documentation of students' abilities
Provide information to students, parents, teachers, and members of the community about what students have learned or are able to do
Represent a learning history
Teachers and students may construct portfolios in literacy and writing, science, math, the arts, or any other subject area in the curriculum. Portfolios may also be more inclusive, containing samples of work across curricular areas.
Portfolios bring together curriculum, instruction and assessment. Through the use of portfolios teachers and students can develop a shared understanding of what constitutes quality work, and acquire a common language for evaluating students' accomplishments.
The use of portfolios lead to classrooms that are student-centered rather than teacher-centered, because students accept more responsibility and become agents in their own education. Students should be able to choose the types of samples that will be placed in their portfolios.
There is growing use of portfolios in the classroom in the form of files or notebooks. The electronic portfolio, however, is a new option allowed by the increase of technology in the classroom, providing yet another perspective on what students can do. Electronic portfolios can include varied media such as text, graphics, video and sound, going beyond just paper and pencil work. After all, products on paper constitute only a small portion of what the student produces in a school year.

4. Why use Electronic Portfolios?
Fosters active learning
Motivating for students
Effective instruments of feedback
Effective instruments of discussion on student performance
Easily accessible
Can store Multiple Media
Allows cross-referencing of student work
Electronic portfolios foster active learning.
Effective instruction should be more than something "delivered" to students. Students become active learners only when they assume ownership and control of their learning. There is little reason for students to develop ownership of standardized test scores filed away in the office. Portfolios help students to set goals for learning, review their goals periodically, and assume responsibility for their own learning. They also allow parents to be informed partners in their child's learning.
Electronic portfolios motivate students.
Displaying their work to anyone on the WWW is much more motivating for students then producing for the teacher. Students like to display their work, and now the technology allows them to display their work to the entire world.
Electronic portfolios also encourage students to engage in periodic self reflection, a very important component of learning.
Electronic portfolios are instruments of feedback.
Electronic portfolios allow for the evaluation on the efficiency of learning goals, the effectiveness of learning strategies, and the clarity of knowledge presentation. Put together, this leads to a system of feedback where several processes in the educational cycle may be evaluated simultaneously. Not only do they provide feedback to students, but they also create a means for exchanging feedback between teachers, and the administration.
Electronic portfolios are instruments of discussion on student performance.
Portfolios may serve as concrete instruments for teacher-student, parent-teacher, and parent-student discussion. It is possible to gain a better understanding of a student's abilities by examining the student's work. Thus, parent conferences take on a totally new definition through electronic portfolios since portfolios can provide a more detailed picture of the student's achievements than test scores and letter grades. Electronic portfolios allow parents to examine teacher expectations, curriculum standards, the students' achievements conveniently and efficiently.
Electronic portfolios are accessible.
The major advantage of electronic portfolios over folders and notebooks is that they provide easy access to student performance. Students' learning products are readily accessible to students, parents, administrators, and other teachers over the WWW. This process introduces economy in storage, and ease of access from practically anywhere in the world.
Electronic portfolios can store multiple media.
Students' writing may be collected easily in notebooks and files. But what about samples of oral reading, a three dimensional model, artwork, a sketch, an animation? By using electronic portfolios it is possible to include examples of all these different media in a portfolio.
Electronic portfolios allow cross-referencing of student work
The dynamic nature of web-pages makes it possible to cross-reference student work in a meaningful way. Suppose a science project also contains samples of math problems the student solved while working on the project. Paper and pencil portfolios would require that copies of the same work would be filed under multiple headings. Using electronic portfolios, it is possible to create meaningful links between all work that is presented.

5. Steps to Creating an Electronic Portfolio
6. Completed Portfolio
5. Design the storyboard and template
4. Decide what software/hardware will be used
Decide on the Content Areas to be assessed:
Teachers should never begin a portfolio project without a clear view of their purpose in collecting student work. A question teachers need to answer in beginning a portfolio project is, "What should I collect?" Portfolios are not meant to include everything that students produce. Therefore, before starting a portfolio project, teachers should identify the dimensions of learning they wish to display.
Decide which Curriculum/State Standards the portfolio will address
The emphasis need not be on collecting "best work" when creating a student portfolio. Instead, a wide range of work samples representative of the student's work will allow the viewer to examine progress. Process portfolios demonstrate student work throughout a learning task. At the beginning of the learning task students should answer questions such as:
What do I plan to accomplish with this task?
How I plan to get there
My strategies for accomplishing this task
Decide how the portfolio will be organized
Portfolios should be organized to reflect an accurate picture of the student's development. A portfolio should include:
a table of contents
the date of the work
description of the task
student reflection on the entry
Each portfolio entry could have links to the areas of assessment that are involved in the project, or task.
Decide what software/hardware will be used
Multimedia computer w/microphone
Microphones will allow the teacher to record students when reading text
Flatbed Scanner
You can use a scanner to scan written text or drawings of students’ works
Electronic Cameras
Electronic Cameras can be used to capture candid or staged shots of students as they are interacting with other classmates
You can also use Electronic cameras when going on field trips and scan them into the PowerPoint
Software
PowerPoint
Hyperstudio
Appleworks 6
Portfolio Builder
Design a Storyboard and template
Have a road map to your finished goal. Layout the designs of what you want to include in your PowerPoint. Then use PowerPoint to create the baseline templates.
3. Decide how the portfolio will be organized
2. Decide which Curriculum/State standards the portfolio will address
1. Decide on the Content Areas to be assessed

6. What should I include in a Portfolio?
Personal information
Background information
Assessments
Student pictures
Handwriting samples
Work samples
Resumes
Drawings
Journals
Personal goals
Teacher observations
Student reflections
Reading samples
Video recordings

7. What Equipment do I Need?
Multimedia Computer w/microphone
Flatbed Scanner
Digital Camera
Software
PowerPoint
Hyperstudio

8. Portfolio Samples Kindergarten Portfolio Elementary Student Portfolio
High School Student Portfolio
Devin’s Portfolio

9. Work Cited Electronic Portfolios Kindergarten Portfolio
"Creating Student Portfolios on the Alphabet Superhighway." 05 Mar
Kindergarten Portfolio
Created by Michele Vela, Kindergarten Teacher. Pizzo Elementary.
Sample Portfolios
Created by Lori Hartman, Intel Teach to the Future-Master Teacher
High School Portfolios
Doe, Sarah. "Electronic Portfolio." Barrington High School. 30 Mar

10. Let’s Get Started!

11. Sample Student portfolio [replace with student’s name]
School name
Grade
School year

12. Background info
Academic profile
Math samples
Writing samples
Listen to me read
Reflections
Teacher
Observations

13. Background Information
DOB:
Age:
Grade:
Address:
Phone:
Emergency Contact:
Transportation Home:
Allergies (if any):
Place student’s photo here

14. Academic Profile Reading Assessment (based on Accelerated Reader/DRA)
First Nine Weeks
Second Nine Weeks
Third Nine Weeks
Fourth Nine Weeks
FCAT/SAT Assessment
FCAT Writes
ESE Staffing (if applicable)

15. Math Work

16. Writing Sample
Import a scanned writing sample here

17. Teacher Observations [type date here]
Strengths
Challenges

18. Books I’ve Read this Year (or you can write Listen to Me Read)

19. Student Reflections
This year (or nine weeks) I have learned a lot….(have students to complete the statement in their own words)

20. Kindergarten Pizzo Elementary 2002 - 2003
Devyn’s Portfolio
Kindergarten
Pizzo Elementary

21. Favorite Activity: glittering Best Friend: Oscar
Devyn
Birthday:
Favorite Color: gold
Favorite Animal: lion
Favorite Game: Luggio
Favorite Activity: glittering
Best Friend: Oscar
I want to be a football player when I grow up.

22. Devyn Devyn and his friends are exploring connecting
cubes. I wonder how long Devyn’s trains are
going to be?

23. Devyn
Devyn is using the felt board.
I wonder what he is planning.

24. Devyn Look who we found in the Home Center! Its our friends
Devyn and Jalen.

25. Listen to me read
Level 1: A Toy Box
Level 2 : Don’t Wake the Baby

26. Devyn

27. January 2003

28. Thanksgiving

29. Sample Student Portfolio [replace with student’s name]
School name
Grade
School Year

30. Table of Contents Letter of Introduction/Welcome Letter
Resume and/or Personal Information
Mission/Goals Statement
Internship
Skills Page
Accomplishments
Letters of Recommendations
Reflection Log

31. Welcome to My Portfolio!
Add a brief description of your portfolio here

32. Resume and Personal Information
Transcript
Job Application Letter
Personal Values Analysis
Additional Information

33. Mission/Goals Statement
Type a small paragraph of your mission or goals statement.

34. Internship Overview Application Photos
**You can hyperlink these items to actual documents or photos…or you can create additional pages for each item.

35. Link a copy of one of the student’s self reflective journals here.
My Skills
Skills
Artifacts
Basic Skills
Link a sample of the student’s work to show comprehension of basic skills.
Higher Order Thinking
Link a student sample that shows evidence of higher order thinking skills.
Affective Skills
Link a copy of one of the student’s self reflective journals here.

36. Accomplishments Accomplishments Artifacts
Perceptive Thinker: Identify, analyze, apply information / make responsible decisions
Community Service: use time to improve community, value honesty
Self Directed: show pride, personal values, set priorities and goals
Adaptable Problem Solver: anticipate and solve, adapt to changes

37. Letters of Recommendation
Teacher
Mentor
Other

38. Reflection Log
Students can share reflections of their school year. This section can be typed directly into PowerPoint or the students can scan their documents into the presentation.