Electronic+Portolios

What is a Digital/Electronic Portfolio and how can it be used in language teaching? Electronic portfolios or digital portfolios are online compilations of students’ work. This Wiki is an electronic portfolio as it documents learning development and provides records of academic work. Portfolios can be tools for, among other things, learning and motivation, for cataloguing learning, for reflecting on learning, for assessment and for providing personal, professional or academic information about an individual. They can also assist employers or academic institutions with their selection process. The learning advantages of digital portfolios can be applied to the language classroom as well as to the teaching of all other subjects. Electronic portfolios are merely online varieties of hard portfolios which have been used for decades to represent a person’s academic and professional abilities and experiences to parents, teachers, peers or potential employers. Digital portfolios have the added advantage of being accessible to a much larger number of people, so affording the portfolio holder with added opportunities and exposure. Furthermore, unlike their paperback counterparts, they can hold examples of students’ performance on audio and visual formats, AND they’re environmentally sustainable!!  //Follow the links below for more information on digital portfolios and their uses in language learning://  //What is a Digital Portfolio? // http://www.ettc.net/tech/tips/portfolios.htm   http://www.eduscapes.com/tap/topic82.htm http://electronicportfolios.com/portfolios/encyclopediaentry.htm http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech111.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_portfolio

// How can it be used in language teaching? //     [|http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Ali-Portfolios.html] http://electronicportfolios.org/portfolios/CALL2007.pdf http://electronicportfolios.org/blog/2007/10/21st-century-portfolios.html  http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/mm-course/digital-portfolios.html