Online Portfolios

Does anyone have any resources they use for online portfolios? I would like my third graders to be able to add videos, photos, and text documents throughout their year. I want them to reflect on their work and have parents and I be able to add comments as well. Ideally, this would also be able to be saved forever...at least as a PDF file. The goal is to have students see their progress and reflect on it through the year.

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Permalink Reply by Colleen Young on August 2, 2010 at 12:39pm

That's a good question and one I am interested in.

This year I have used Wikispaces - one of our wikis was for a Mathematics learning journal - each student had a page where they could reflect on their learning. As they could see each others' entries they learned from each other. This was with my UK Year 7 (11-12 year old) students...

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Permalink Reply by Tara Patricia Weegar on August 2, 2010 at 8:24pm

Thank you for responding. So far, wikispaces seem to be the best bet. I just wish their was a template already set up. Can you password protect different pages in a wiki? I would like each page to be private for the student.

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Permalink Reply by Colleen Young on August 3, 2010 at 12:20am

Tara that is something I am having trouble with! I see benefits in the students seeing each others' pages but understand that some of them may prefer this not to be the case. I don't think you can password protect individual pages.

I have got quite quick at setting up various page templates now - that's a great feature of Wikispaces