Students used to tell me: "I will just take the C" ... I was shocked when some of my students decided instead to ask, "Can I redo the essay and submit again?"

I give my students opportunities to rewrite and resubmit

"I'll just take the C" is often the reply

Why spend time rewriting?   That's why I like showing students how to display their work on a digital portfolio.

"Oh, no!  I'm going to show the essay to the world and there are errors in it!  Okay, Mr. Steve, I'll make some changes and resubmit it to you."

That's the value of asking students to display their work for others to see.   Suddenly rewriting becomes a valuable use of their time.

The Free Website Project gives teenagers the steps that High Tech High schools use to prepare students for work.

You can see Bill Gates at High Tech High with Oprah   tinyURL.com/HTHGatesOprah

Please spread the word to teenagers.....  tinYURL.com/FWPstart is the free website and tiNYURL.com/SunDP5 is the free ebook.

CLICK HERE        tinyURL.com/BillGatesOprah

Ben Staley's University Portfolio (part of the CDPOTTP)

BenStaley.weebly.com.  Go there.
You will see what a student did to continue his Digital Portfolio.  He is a graduate of High Tech High and his portfolio at HTH is located here   TinyURL.com/exampleDP

Some sample pages of his updated portfolio are below:

BenStaley.weebly.com.



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You can see Ben's full High Tech High DP at TinyURL.com/ExampleDP

Here are some sample pages

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Here are some pages from Abel Thon's digital portfolio

These images are taken from an ebook that describes the process of making a DP
The School Counselor's Guide to Digital Portfolios
TINYURL.com/sundp5

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This collection posted here is valuable because my students (who have never created a website) can see what a near peer completed and MAINTAINED.  Imagine:  After four years of High Tech High, Ben continued to keep track of "what I did in college" -- more than I did when I was in grad school.

Do you need a push to get started with a digital portfolio?  Listen to Tony Wagner of Harvard University.

As part of the effort to show "real" portfolios (not just "templates), I'm sharing the link to my DP that I collected while failing to complete a doctoral program.
Here's my grad school "attempt" of keeping a digital portfolio.  Ben has shared his work... I should open my DP to the planet.
TinyURL.com/SteveMccreaDP

This is a screenshot of an actual Blackboard post
that I made in a class about trends in Distance education.

I'm more satisfied with my work on the idea of 

Distance Education Day (so that's part of my portfolio)

TinyURL.com/distanceEducationDay

See my post about a suggested "CDPOTTP" -- and I offer this blogpost as part of that effort.

To learn a simple 11-step method to make a DP (a webstie produced and maintained by students), go to TINYURL.com/FWPstart

See the work by Kern Kelley in Maine public schools

Kelley is an advocate of website maintained by students.  His description shows a system that links ES, MS and HS (all three levels of K-12).

Let's add to the Collection of Digital Portfolios Open to the Public CDPOTTP

It will be useful to have a place where students can go to see examples of "real live" portfolios (not just "templates").  Let's start a CDPOTTP  Collection of Digital Portfolios Open to the Public
or
CPOTTP  Collection of Portfolios Open to the Public.

For example, it's possible to view ACTUAL PORTFOLIOS of two students at High Tech High (who have given their permission to share their best work).   ABEL   and BEN STALEY

One of the students, Ben Staley, continued his curating and he put some of his university work on a portfolio.  You can see it here (and some sample pages are posted here)


Here's the email message I got from Ben:

Hello!

Unfortunately I’ve been super busy and hadn’t had a use for a Digital Portfolio. I moved everything over to Weebly a while back when I was applying for jobs, but now that I am employed and attending school I haven’t had the time or need. That is also why I let my fancy URL expire. Now it’s just BenStaley.weebly.com. As soon as I start applying to jobs I will probably update it as an extension of my resume but this is as “long term” as it’s going to get right now :-)

Best,

Ben

I invite you to join me on a search for example of "real portfolios built by students" -- I show my portfolio HERE  TinyURL.com/SteveMCcreaDP

DeMonn Sands  at SunEd High

Here is a portfolio build at SunEd High School  TINYURL.com/Sunsands
You can see some efforts to create templates  at this post









Search:  sample digital portfolios for students

Digital Portfolio Examples - Louisiana State University

https://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/cxc/digital-portfolio-examples/

Below are selected Digital Portfolios constructed by LSU Distinguished Communicators. Students are encouraged to review these examples and think critically about how they might construct their own portfolio. ... There are always things that should be updated and newer, and often better, samples could be included.

Digital portfolio for students - tips and examples - Flipsnack Blog

https://blog.flipsnack.com/digital-portfolio-students/

Oct 24, 2017 - Student portfolio definition. A student portfolio is a collection of academic assignments, projects, revisions and work samples that stretch over a designated period of time, belonging to onestudent. It may also contain student self-assessments and reflections on own work.

11 Essentials for Excellent Digital Portfolios | Edutopia

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/11-essentials-for-excellent-eportfolios-vicki-davis

Apr 30, 2015 - This is often a showcase portfolio, or a sample of students' best work. A portfolio as learning typically has an extended timeframe. This is often formative assessment, but students will also self-reflect and assess themselves. These process portfolios promote student reflection and ownership of the learning ...

10 Tools to Create Online Student Portfolios - Getting Smart

www.gettingsmart.com › Topics › EdTech & Data

Jan 9, 2016 - This free app for iOS is another interesting tool for creating digital portfolios. Teachers andstudents can work together and add work samples which are then organized to form separate streams and narratives. The app supports different types of content, ranging from audio and video to images and other ...

Electronic Portfolios: Students, Teachers, and Life Long Learners

https://eduscapes.com/tap/topic82.htm

Electronic Portfolios are a creative means of organizing, summarizing, and sharing artifacts, information, and ideas about teaching and/or learning, along with personal and ... A portfolio is asampling of the breadth and depth of a person's work conveying the range of abilities, attitudes, experiences, and achievements.

Student E-Portfolios - Google for Educators - Google Sites

https://sites.google.com/a/bvsd.org/google-for-bvsd.../e-portfolios-for-students

Student E-portfolios: A Tutorial. The three steps that will be described for creating an e-portfolio are collecting work samples, uploading work to online storage, and creating a website. Students will need internet access and a Google account. Step 1: Collect work samples or artifacts. Step 2: Upload and organize artifacts in ...

8 Educational Apps To Create Digital Portfolios - TeachThought

https://www.teachthought.com › Technology

Jan 8, 2018 - VoiceThread is yet another app that has become very popular for use in classrooms as adigital portfolio tool. It allows for both teachers and students to add work samples, and it can also add images or video from right within the app. It accepts multiple file types, so students can upload documents, files, and ...

Thing 31: Digital Portfolios for Students | Cool Tools for School

https://cooltoolsforschool.wordpress.com/digital-student-portfolios/

May 13, 2016 - INTRODUCTION What is a portfolio? "A student portfolio is a compilation of academic work and other forms of educational evidence assembled for the purpose of (1) evaluating coursework quality, learning progress, and academic achievement; (2) determining whether students have met learning ...

Digital Portfolio Student Examples - LiveBinder

https://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=832706

Demonstrating learning using a variety of web containers.

Digital Portfolios | Creative Educator

creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/v05/articles/Digital_Portfolios

A digital portfolio is a computer-based collection of student learning over time that provide a window into student learning. ... Students should choose the content of their portfolios with the clear understanding that the items must include examples of their best performances, demonstrations of achieving a particular objective, ...

On one of these links I found a student's actual video performance,  She even spoke in Spanish.   Bravo.

click here and scroll down to her video




GO HERE TO SEE Examples from High Tech High
TinyURL.com/sunCDPOTTP
or
TinyURL.com/CPOTTP

Add to your positive digital footprint: become an editor of a wikipedia page.

Most of the articles on this blog focus on "what steps could we take to make portfolios part of the path to graduation"?

This post gives an example of what a student might display as part of their portfolios.

"I'm a WikiPedia Editor." or contributor.

Click here about "How to Edit a Page in Wikipedia."

Key points:

Editing most Wikipedia pages is easy. Wikipedia uses two methods of editing: classic editing through wiki markup (wikitext) and through a newer VisualEditor (VE).

To practice editing, go to the sandbox, and click the "Edit" tab. An editing window that contains the text for that page will be displayed. Type in something, or make changes to the text you'll find there. Then click the Publish changes button and see what the result looks like.

There are 5 million articles in Wikipedia. 







For example
I found the following sentence in an article.

In 1892, facing financial problems, Rebouças went to Luanda and after that, Funchal, in Madeira. In 1898 his body was found at the shoreline.^{[clarification needed]} He supposedly committed suicide.

Location of the article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Rebou%C3%A7as


Here's the information that I found in another website

Greatly affected by exile and in a precarious state of health, he died on 9 May 1898. His body was retrieved from the base of an approximately 60-metre-high cliff near the hotel where he lived. 

Location
http://basilio.fundaj.gov.br/pesquisaescolar_en/index.php?option=com_content&id=912

SO:  the clarification can be made.
His body was retrieved from the base of an approximately 60-metre-high cliff near the hotel where he lived. 

Source: GASPAR, Lúcia. André Rebouças. Pesquisa Escolar On-Line, Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, Recife. Available at:  <http://basilio.fundaj.gov.br/pesquisaescolar/>. Accessed: day month year. Exemple: 6 Aug. 2009.

How to use a digital portfolio to prepare for graduation

In case you don't know about digital portfolios, here is an article that I found helpful.

http://tinyurl.com/sunhuffpostdp

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-swallow/the-new-high-school-essen_b_8106544.html

Just in case you are not convinced already that PORTFOLIOS are HELPFUL, see this Huffington Post article

ED TECH TEAM in NEW YORK has some tips about how to use Portfolios in classrooms

Here are some tips from a teacher in New York (who uses portfolios)

Students are encouraged to add any other materials that will help them to review and document the important content for the unit such as:

*Vocabulary flashcards - embedded from Quizlet usually

*Videos from YouTube or other sources for tutorials on major content

*Notes from class or outlines from text (doc or take picture of handwritten notes)

*Pictures of posters, graphic organizers, or other visuals from class

*Online games for review and mastery of anatomy terminology

To help reinforce the importance of the portfolio, I count it as a test grade for the quarter and also grade their assignments directly from their site. When students are ready to submit it for grading, I have them enter their site URL into a form with a brief comment about what has been added that they would like me to focus on. Feel free to take a look at my form here.

As the year has progressed, I have learned several important points for success:

*Help students see usefulness of portfolio by using it in class and for review

*Grade submitted work from the portfolio to reinforce its use

*Use peer review to help students get ideas from others on how it can be set up

I have also made some mistakes that I have made changes to or will change for next year:

*Give students time periodically during the quarter to work on the portfolio during class
*Periodically check on portfolios so students do not save work until the last minute

*Post a running list of items that students must include and should include

*Create a full working sample for students to see