Proposals for digital portfolio construction

One of the most important decisions when they think of building an e-portfolio is set with the intention that this will be created. Thus, there is a considerable difference between e-portfolio as a process (collection, selection, reflection, evaluation, presentation) and e-portfolio as a product (notebook, CV, website, blog, wiki, CD-ROM or DVD).

There are some commercial tools available that can facilitate the management of labour(work flow management), thus facilitating the formative assessment and feedback on the work of the student.

For a pilot one can use HTML pages, Word, blogs, or even one of several open source solutions.

In short, it is important to define in advance the objectives and context of e-portfolio:

• Identify the purpose of the e-portfolio and the target audience;
• Identify the internal organizational structure;
• Identify the equipment and software to use.

In the Web one can find several templates in HTML format that eventually serve as "inspiration" to design the organizational structure of e-Portfolio:

They can also see examples of templates offered for students and teachers.

If the e-portfolio to look into a specific unit curriculum, the teacher may propose, and negotiate with the students, a structure similar to this:

Proposal 1

• Index
• Program
• Objectives (general and specific)
• Bibliography
• Types and evaluation criteria
• Texts relevant
• Work requested
• Critical reflection
• Degree of freedom / creativity of students to enhance the e-portfolio:
• Material resulting from research
• Personal documents
• References reasons to participate in seminars, conferences, symposia

Proposal 2

• Diaries of learning
• Narratives of learning
• Critical Incident
• Cards of reading
• Analysis of case
• Critical analysis of learning
• Other documents

In order to lead students to reflect on what they do and why do, make creative intellectuals, and consistent with its objectives and interests, to engage in learning in context, it is necessary to make an objective assessment, according to the pre-established rules.

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