all links verified May, 1998
See update of resources
May, 2000
Portfolios
Online
Portfolios for K-12 Students
Booth
Fickett Math Science Magnet School is using HyperCard to keep track
and assess the progress of their K-8 Students. See samples of student-created
portfolios and an overview of how they make them.
Examples of portfolios from North
Woods Elementary School in La Crosse Wisconsin. They also use Hyperstudio
and include a sample from Grade 5 and 7.
A different kind of electronic portfolio can be seen at Ligon
Middle School where students created passports to the world with only
one online computer.
See how students in NorthStar
Elementary, Alaska are using HyperStudio to develop their electronic
portfolios. Instructions are included as well as samples.
Shane's
Portfolio Shane is a ninth grade student who's created an HTML portfolio.
Portfolios in Higher Education
In The Student Portfolio System at Illinois
State University, Department of Accounting, students build a multimedia
collection of their studies in career planning, formal classroom work and
their student life.
Electronic Student Portfolios are available online at Ohio
University. Included at the site are links to an online HTML tutorial
of their electonic portfolio process. Student portfolios include information
about their courses, skills, associations, personal information, interview
responses and a resume.
The Kalamazoo Portfolio shows how students at Kalamazoo
College are using portfolios. Online computer instructions and selected
student examples are available.
Electronic Portfolios can be produced using anyone of a number
of multimedia programs or it can be Web-based, coded with an HTML editor
or a simple text editor. Six multimedia programs specifically customized
for electronic portfolio documentation are reviewed at http://www.conknet.com/krsd/EPSE.html
The Ithaca City School District evaluated many approaches
to constructing electronic portfolios: simple word processing portfolios,
videotapes, Web pages, and multimedia software applications. Read about
their experiences and a summary of possible software products. http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan97mms/portfol.htm
Aurbach_&_Associates at http://www.aurbach.com
produce Grady's Profile for student assessment
and Teacher's Portfolio for preservice and
inservice teacher assessment. Dowload demos and get information about alternative
assessment and electronic portfolios. Online demos available at http://www.aurbach.com/demos.html
Roger Wagner's HyperStudio at http://www.hyperstudio.com
has demo versions of both the Mac and Windows version of Hyperstudio and
links to some online HyperStudio stacks.
Sunburst: Learner Profile at
http://www.sunburstonline.com:80/lplobby.html
has information about software for classroom observations, using either
bar codes or Newton or E-mate for Macintosh or Windows.
Superschool Software's Portfolio Assessment
Kit http://www.superschoolsoftware.com
is a comprehensive approach to maintaining a portfolio. The kit includes
evertything you need to start building portfolios for every student in
your class. The program includes I'm a Happy Writer Electronic Portfolio,
which is a collection of individual portfolios targeted at specific subject
areas.
Get a demo CD of Digital Chisel, a multimedia authoring program
by Pierian Springs by filling out a form at http://www.pierian.com/products.htm
