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 * VISION and PURPOSE of a DIGITAL PORTFOLIO **

A portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that exhibits the student's efforts, progress, and achievements in one or more areas. The collection must include student participation in selecting content, the criteria for selection, the criteria for judging merit, and evidence of student self-reflection. (Helen Barrett, and Northwest Educational Association) Portfolios can serve multiple purposes," Barrett told Education World. "They can support learning, play an assessment role, or support employment. The purpose dictates the structure and contents of a portfolio."   Here in Portsmouth we are charged with developing a student portfolio that shows growth over time in all 6 ISTE student standards and respective performance indicators. Thus NH State Standard Ed 306.42, implemented in July 2005, charges us to create an ePortfolio for every student. Students have until the end of 8th grade to show growth. We hope that students entering Portsmouth High School will independently be able to choose a tool then use tools to extend, augment, and support their learning of content and related subject matter.    Our high school program extends the information literacy instruction that was introduced in middle school. The artifacts and reflections that children will save this year K-8, provide ongoing evidence of their learning of academic content, of concept of "self as learner",facilitator of new knowledge, and an appreciation of the kinds of technology tools that are used in the real world to create, solve problems, invent, publish, and decisively draw hypotheses and conclusions about things that matter in a global society. The following ISTE standards and performance indicators should be included in reflections and in artifacts incorporated in the digital portfolio. [] The Process: Student Reflections: The reflection process is the heart of the portfolio. Student reflections, which can be shown by, voice thread, video, ning, blog, or any other media are required on every artifact and should focus on the learning and not the tool. The reflection process needs to be taught repeatedly and will be developed over time. It would be helpful if all individual grade levels doing the same portfolio project chose the same prompt. This is not necessary for those choosing other kinds of projects. Possible Guiding Prompts/ Questions: What did I learn? I learned to build …..create….publish…..examine…observe….etc. Things I did well…. The most challenging part was…. I want to tell you about….. I thought the easiest part was…. I am most proud of…. What am I surprised about? One technology skill I could not perform very well but now I can… I wish I knew more about …… <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">I can see using these tools for when I am ……… <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">I put a lot of time into….. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">I chose to tell you about this part of the project because……. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Before this project, I didn’t’’ know……….. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Next time, I do a project using technology tools, I …… <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">I am very excited to tell you about this because…… <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Last year I did not know ……. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">The one fact that I would include on a quiz if I was creating the quiz is……. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">My teacher asked me to create a game with the information that I learned. My idea is: _____________ <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">I’m happiest learning with technology when……………. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Outside of school I use a technology to……………….. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">I wish my technology at school was……………….. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">When I use technology, the information presented to me……………………. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Helen Barrett: The power of reflection turns our COLLECTIONS into EVIDENCE of our learning. <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Students should reflect on the quality and growth of their work. ( Jonathan Mueller).
 * <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Teachers met with Technologists in buildings in June 2010.
 * <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Each grade level reached consensus on what project they will include in each student’s digital portfolio this year. (K-5)
 * <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">There is a schedule created that shows the date, time, teacher, and resources needed to complete the project.
 * <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">The selection of which project to include in the portfolio is **not** student-driven this year. 2010-2011
 * <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Students will reflect on each artifact
 * <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Reflective prompts will be driven by grade level teams that have reached consensus on the prompt.
 * <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Purpose is to collect evidence of knowledge of the ISTE Student Standards (proposed for each grade level) and also to collect evidence of some content learning. (growth in learning about some content standard) This is individual per teacher/ grade and his/her project.
 * <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Teachers may reflect on any or all student reflections but teachers must reflect as a grade level team on the process. Also they must reflect on the collection of evidence of learning on the grade-level ISTE standards and indicators. This will be collected in written form at the end of June.
 * <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Teachers may use google docs as their portfolio receptacle for this year./STILL TO BE DECIDED
 * <span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">By May 31, 2010 all students must have at least one artifact in his/her google account and student reflection.