Here are some links that may be useful for getting ideas, examples, or rationales for e-Portfolios:
(I have not authored, nor claim rights to, any of the items linked below. I share them only for educational purposes and do not profit from their use or sharing. I do, however, offer thanks and gratitude to all of the educators, students, authors, and institutions who have made these items available digitally.)
The following samples were created by students in Jim VanderMay's Freshman Composition course (ENG 111) at MMCC. A note from Jim follows:
All of these students have given me permission to share their work with my future students and with other MMCC English faculty. You may find samples of writings similar what you have asked for in your assignments in these online portfolios, as well as some fine examples of some different ways the online portfolio, as a whole, can be put together at the end of the term. You are welcome to share, discuss and critique these examples with your own students, but please be sure to give credit to the authors, who have generously offered to publish their work for the benefit of other MMCC students and their teachers. -–Jim VanderMey
Here are some links that may be useful for getting ideas, examples, or rationales for e-Portfolios:
(I have not authored, nor claim rights to, any of the items linked below. I share them only for educational purposes and do not profit from their use or sharing. I do, however, offer thanks and gratitude to all of the educators, students, authors, and institutions who have made these items available digitally.)
Why e-Portfolios?:
Link 1: The Association for Authentic, Experiental, and Evidence-Based Learning
Link 2: Balancing the Two Faces of e-Portfolios
Link 3: Educause Learning Initiative
Link 4: e-Portfolio Introduction, Applications and Implications Beyond the Classroom
Link 5: Wikipedia: Electronic Portfolios
Link 6: Sacred Heart University Rationale
Link 7: Show what you know: ePortfolios for 21st century learners
Link 8: Researching Electronic Portfolios and Learner Engagement: The Reflect Initiative
Link 9: Measuring Student Progress with e-Portfolios
Link 10: E-Portfolios as a Hiring Tool: Do Employers Really Care?
Link 11: College students' intentions to use e-portfolios: From the perspectives of career-commitment status and weblog-publication behaviours
Link 12: Electronic Portfolios for Student Learning?
Link 13: e-Portfolios: The Replacement of Standardized Testing
College Websites:
College 1: Simpson College
College 2: Montgomery College
College 3: Salt Lake Community College
College 4: Lehman College
College 5: Northeastern University
College 6: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
College 7: Stanford
College 8: LaGuardia Community College
College 9: Macaulay Honors College at CUNY
e-Portfolio Authoring Tools & Resources:
Tool 1: Weebly
Tool 2: Wikispaces
Tool 3: WordPress
Tool 4: Evolving List of ePortfolio-related Tools
Tool 5: MERLOT
Tool 6: Training Manual for Kapi‘olani Community College
Tool 7: Mozilla Composer
Tool 8: FrontPage
Tool 9: Apple's iWeb
Tool 10: Adobe Dreamweaver
Tool 11: PBworks
Tool 12: Tripod
Tool 13: Digication e-Portfolios
Tool 14: My eCoach
Tool 15: Barrett: e-Portfolios in 30+ styles
Tool 16: FolioSpaces
e-Portfolio Examples:
Sample 1: White
Sample 2: Gittinger
Sample 3: Schafer
Sample 4: Hayes
Sample 5: Batista
Sampel 6: Payne
Sample 7: Sura
Sample 8: Kim
Sample 9: McBride
Sample 10: Kramer
Sample 11: Awrey
Sample 12: Barrett
Sample 13: Yee
Sample 14: Botti-Klein
Sample 15: Houle
Sample 16: Baird
The following samples were created by students in Jim VanderMay's Freshman Composition course (ENG 111) at MMCC. A note from Jim follows:
All of these students have given me permission to share their work with my future students and with other MMCC English faculty. You may find samples of writings similar what you have asked for in your assignments in these online portfolios, as well as some fine examples of some different ways the online portfolio, as a whole, can be put together at the end of the term. You are welcome to share, discuss and critique these examples with your own students, but please be sure to give credit to the authors, who have generously offered to publish their work for the benefit of other MMCC students and their teachers.
-–Jim VanderMey
Sample 17: Kerri Hansen (using Google Sites). https://sites.google.com/a/midmich.edu/english-111-portfolio/home
Sample 18: Richard Johnson (using Wix.com). http://www.wix.com/rmcj89/spectacular#!
Sample 19: Mike Baugher (using Wix.com). http://www.wix.com/mdbaugher/comprehensive-online-portfolio
Sample 20: Andy Clark (using Wix.com). http://www.wix.com/atclar8/andyclark
Sample 21: Kathryn Lynch (using Google Sites). http://sites.google.com/site/kathrynlonlineportfolio/
Sample 22: Chuck Lund (using Weebly). http://chucklund.weebly.com/index.html
Sample 23: Maggie Platt (using Google Sites). https://sites.google.com/a/midmich.edu/maggie-comprehensive-online-portfolio/home
Sample 24: Austin Gulick (using Wix.com). http://www.wix.com/austingulick/compreshensiveonlineportfolio
Sample 25: Kelly Rocheleau (using Tumblr). http://www.KRenglish.tumblr.com
Sample 26: Kelsey Thrush (using Wix.com). http://www.wix.com/kathrush/comprehensive-online-portfolio
e-Portfolio Articles:
Article 1: A Comparative Analysis of Common E-Portfolio Features and Available Platforms
Article 2: The Iowa e-Portfolio Model
Article 3: An e-Portfolio Design Supporting Ownership, Social Learning, and Ease of Use
Article 4: Career e-Portfolios: The Next Standard in Career Development
Article 5: Assessing the Efficacy and Effectiveness of an E-Portfolio Used for Summative Assessment
Article 6: eFolioWorld PowerPoint.ppt
Article 7: Know Your e-Portfolio
Article 8: Why Use e-Portfolios and Web 2.0 Tools
Article 9: The Digital Convergence: Extending the Portfolio Model
Article 10: The Future of Integration, Personalization, and ePortfolio Technologies