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Portfolio Collaborations : It's a DIGITAL world 2003-2004

Project Leader: Nancy Coquard

Teacher-researchers : Louise Allen, Alexander Galt High School; John Palov,
Heroes Elementary School; Martine Bourbeau, Waterloo Elementary School; Darlene Badger,
Waterloo Elementary School; Dale MacKenzie, Walterloo Elementary School

Consultants: Carol'Ann McKelvey, Consultant for Evaluation and Assessment; Betty Kreuger,
English Language Arts Consultant

Goal setting:
http://www.etsb.qc.ca/en/teacher_resources/ICT_RECIT/r_d/goal_setting.htm

Artifact collection:
http://www.etsb.qc.ca/en/teacher_resources/ICT_RECIT/r_d/collection.htm

Rubrics and Evaluation:
http://www.etsb.qc.ca/en/teacher_resources/ICT_RECIT/r_d/Portfoliorubric.htm

Our Burning Questions - October 24, 2003

The PDIG QESN-RÉCIT Portfolio Collaboration Group met at the EMSB on Friday, October 24, 2003. We brainstormed in groups and shared our questions related to portfolio. Next we categorized the questions and met in informal discussion groups of our choice.

Here are the questions:

What is a portfolio anyway? Click here to see notes from the discussion

What is a portfolio?

How do you get started?

Can a portfolio be useful in all subjects?

What can a student use a portfolio for?

How do you choose what goes into a portfolio?

Qui décide ce que contiendra le portfolio?

What goes in a portfolio?

Which type of portfolio to use? Purpose?

Where do teachers start?

Does portfolio demonstrate only best work?

How can portfolios apply to adult education?

Where does a portfolio fit into adult ed: individualized learning vs traditional?

How would an adult ed portfolio differ from a youth sector portfolio?

Getting started with (e-)portfolio - first steps?

Collection of best pieces?

Portfolio Pedagogy - Click here to see notes from the discussion

Assessment and Evaluation - Click here to see notes from the discussion

Documenting

Evaluating

Class and Time Management - Teacher's perspective

How do I manage digital portfolios for 23 to 30 students if I only have 3 or 4 desktop computers?

Management - Practical and Pedagogical

Digital Issues

Tools

Are there technology obstacles with e-portfolios and how do we overcome them?

Is there an advantage to having special software designed to create e-portfolios?

How do we create e-portfolios with limited resources?

Tech-comfort - Can I manage an e-portfolio?

Do we have the technological tools to use portfolio-based projects?

In e-portfolios, what are the most productive templates already available?

Software - what do we use?

Some students are not as confident as others in terms of computers. They have great difficulty inputting their work into the computer. What can we do to help them?

Access

Support and accessibility? - kids, teachers parents, technician

How do portfolios work in High School? Access to technology.

Technical Issues

Archiving?

How do you manage to store the work in portfolio?

What means are used to store the portfolio?

Technological gremlins - who fixes all the tech problems?

Safety- passwords? intranet? internet?

Posting the work on the web - server? memory? maintenance?