Why should I create an electronic portfolio? To help you organize your work, share it with others, reflect upon it and continually improve your skills and understandings of what you are learning. You will begin a web-based electronic portfolio in this course. It will benefit you to keep this growing as your complete your education at UVM in a number of ways. It will make your work more accessible to faculty for feedback, it will help you find and organize your projects, and it will help you see your growth as a learner. It will also make it  easier for you to complete your required senior portfolio and from our student feedback, it will also help you get a job.

1. Your portfolio should contain the following elements:
  • Your first or "Splash Page"  that is named index.html
    • tells what the viewer what will find on your website,
    • "who" you are- pre-service teacher, teacher of English, no personal information
    • how someone may get in touch with you through e-mail
    • when  your site was last updated.
    • contains a link that goes to your table of contents
  • A table of contents
    • clearly labeled links to all your portfolio pages
    • well organized page that uses icons or lists to present information clearly
  • Your next set of pages must include:
    • Work from your computer course (EDSC11) and work from at least two other courses you have or are taking
    • Include a screen shot of your autobiographical assignment and your reflection about this assignment.
      • you will add additional projects to your computer course portfolio as you complete them
      • include artifacts (documents from at least two other courses.) This may be a scanned assignment, a paper your wrote, a home work assignment you completed. Along with each artifact that you include, explain the why you included that particular assignment and what it shows about how you are learning to be a teacher.
    • you will each have your own website and this is where you will publish your portfolios.

2. Models/Examples of Student Portfolios

To look at some other pre-service electronic portfolios check out: To look at some K-12 Student Portfolios check out:

3. Web Publishing Resources:


4. Assessment of your portfolios: Examine the online rubric to determine specific grading criteria..