Diane Corley
First Grade Teacher
Garden Lakes Elementary School
Avondale, Arizona

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Marci Turner
Fifth Grade Teacher
Lakeview Elementary School
Washington District, Phoenix, Arizona

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Portfolio Resources

Buckman School Post Card Project There have been recent connection problems to this site but it is worth trying several times.  This project took place over summer vacation and subsequent fall semester.  Each student was to write postcards to the class from wherever they went over the summer. When classes resumed the postcards were shared with the whole class and served as a resource for a number of subjects. The postcards were scanned and placed on the web.

Creating Electronic Portfolios - This site is but one section of the "...Alphabet Superhighway (ASH), under sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Education's READ*WRITE*NOW! Initiative, assists secondary and upper elementary students  [and teachers] to create, locate, and communicate information through active learning, guided discovery, mentoring, competitions, and other on-line activities.... The ASH is being developed by a team of programmers, educators, designers, information specialists, and students in the Educational Technology Laboratory at the University of Delaware."

Art Gallery - This link goes to one of many pages of student work published at the CyberKids / Cyberteens sites created and maintained by Mountain Lake Software.

Electronic Portfolios by Carla Piper A fairly brief article written for the California Math Council Newsletter on the use of electronic portfolios.

Native American Dwellings - This is an example of a class project from Bridge Elementary School in Lexington Massachusetts. Mrs. Abban's 2nd grade class did a project on Native American dwellings that had students research on the Internet and CD-ROMs and then create models of dwellings. Pictures of the students' work were digitized and posted on the web.

Electronic Portfolios From Tammy Worcester, an Instructional Technology Specialist for an educational service center called ESSDACK (Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas), here is a site addressing how to create and use electronic portfolios.

Vose Students Vose Elementary School is located in Beaverton, Oregon.  This section of their site contains links to several different student projects.  Among those most interesting are the different writing projects and a series of surveys over three years that the students conducted.

Links to Electronic Portfolios Paul Poderick was enrolled last spring in a technology class through State University of New York at Potsdam.  He did done some research on electronic portfolios for the class and posted it here.  He has a nice collection of both print and web resources.

Maryland Projects The site introduction says it best, "This project was created by Mrs. Friedman's fourth grade class. After the students had done research on their assigned Maryland Counties in the classroom, they created an illustration (patch) in Art Class with the assistance of the Art Teacher, Mrs. Sandler. Next, these patches were scanned in the Computer Lab under the guidance of the Computer Teacher, Mrs. Glick. Finally, the students used Hyperstudio to make a stack about the Counties of Maryland. The final project is a quilt illustrating all 23 Counties of Maryland."

Donalyn Heise - student electronic portfolio This page details for students their assignment of creating an electronic portfolio.  It is part of a US Department of Education Technology Innovation Challenge Grant in Omaha, Nebraska.  "The Community Discovered is a five-year project that links technology and the arts with other subject areas to transform the education of K-12 students. The focus of this project is to develop constructivist curriculum models of engaged student learning using technology and the resources of the Internet. Conducted by Westside Community Schools in Omaha, Nebraska in conjunction with the Lexington, Grand Island, Winnebago, and Omaha Public School Districts and a Consortium of Partner Agencies, The Community Discovered project builds upon and extends the impact of the Art and Technology Integration (ATI) Project, conducted by Westside Community Schools and the Grand Island Public Schools. The ATI project received a two-year grant from the Excellence in Education Council, funded by proceeds from the Nebraska State Lottery.

Electronic Portfolios From the University of Maryland, here are several links to the portfolios of several class projects .

Electronic Portfolios from Discovery Middle School - A collection of student work from Discovery Middle School in Orlando, Florida.

Student Interviews Students at the Peabody School in San Francisco conducted interviews on the topic of  "What Every Adult Should Know About Kids: Advice For Parents, Teachers, and Other People Who Care" and posted them here.

First Grade An example of some pages from a 1st grader's electronic portfolio at Peabody School in San Francisco.

KidPub WWW Publishing KidPub is an organization (actually a father and two school age daughters) that maintains this site with a huge collection (17,000 entries) of student writing.  There are many different projects and topics available for students to get involved in so they too may have their work published on a site that has logged more than 660,000 visits.

Mrs. Silverman's Second Grade Class Susan Silverman is a second grade teacher at Comsewogue School in Long Island, New York.  She has put together an extensive site that supports her classroom.  The class not only participates in projects that others have started but Silverman coordinates projects herself that draw in participants from other classes from around the country.

The Classroom Connection - Mrs. Silverman's site (see above) is but one of a number of sites produced by educators that participate in the Classroom Connection.  This site lists at least 50 more.