Comments on: E-Portfolio Research Wiki Finalised

By: Graham Wegner

Graham Wegner — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:54:39 +0000

Lisa, I appreciate your thoughts here and I would like to respond in the very near future. I am just at the tail end of our report writing phase here at school (something an e-portfolio could be helpful with!!) and I don’t want to just dash off a response. But I don’t want to let this slide until I have the time and have you think I’ve ignored your responses. So, watch this space.

By: lisahuff

lisahuff — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:29:56 +0000

Oops--I wasn't ready to hit submit. I realize you wrote this post last summer. I'm wondering, with the passage of a year, how your thinking on this topic has changed. Here are the links to our portfolios: list of student portfolios supporting documents blog reflections

By: lisahuff

lisahuff — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:24:36 +0000

I just discovered your post . I too struggled this school year to find strong models of student portfolios to use with my students. We–my eleventh grade AP English Language class–created portfolios this year to document their progress towards NETS for Students and the Arkansas English Language Arts Standards and to highlight their achievements, for scholarship and college applications.

Working alongside my students, we negotiated a portfolio checklist and shared tools and ideas for creating the portfolio. My students wowed me. You can see all their portfolios on our

I think there is still a place for the portfolio. Perhaps the portfolio is part of the PLE. While the PLE is messy, in progress, scattered, the portfolio is more polished, organized, intentional. The portfolio can be the place to select some key artifacts from the PLE (and other work examples) to showcase one’s work like the teaser that draws an audience to view the whole movie.

By: Alexander Hayes

Alexander Hayes — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:10:50 +0000

As usual ” quietly canned and presenters pointed”.

The good thing though Graham is that awareness has been raised and the whole infrastructural and cultural change has been brought to the forefront of staff meeting sfor at least a month.

Again, what is a PLE ? A whole stack of loosley affilitated web presence or a wopping big box that everything gets shoved into and ‘alumni’ dreams attached to it’s content ?

The key to it all I think is in dropping the PLE and getting back to the real conversation and not building self absorbant acronyms……we educators have a great knack of coining them before anything has actually be realised.

Good report. Thank god Microsoft wont be able to claim all the credit.:-)