Prepping for Prime Time
By Carol S. Holzberg
Technology & Learning 26 no9 34, 36 Ap 2006

An article about electronic portfolios?!? Now how could I pass that one up! My peers in the SLMS program and I will be completing an electronic portfolio before we receive our degree. With new legislation requiring a media specialist in every district, we will need to document our professional performance with electronic portfolios. In addition, the school I am currently working in is implementing a three-year plan starting this school year to require a capstone project of the graduating seniors that is basically an electronic portfolio. With so many relevant uses, I was happy to check out all the links listed in this article, even though it took hours to check them all out.

I found them all interesting in their own way. After looking through a couple of them, I had a take a break as my mind was swimming. There is a huge wealth of information available! Dr. Helen Barrett at electronicportfolios.org has more information than I could process. It is helpful to see how different places are doing portfolios and observe some of the templates such as ones from NETS and others.

One of the most amazing links was the MEHS student portfolios. I would love to share this site with the teachers at my school who do not feel our students are “behind” in their technological skills. Wow – the portfolios these students put together are really amazing, and they inspired me to push for this aspect in the work of our students in their capstone project.

The only problem after looking at all these sites discussing and highlighting electronic portfolios is that I still have not started on mine!