Explore - When given the task to explore options for creating an e-portfolio for class, I went to my good old friend google. After completing a search, I found so much information it was overwhelming, which is what I expected. My original thinking was that I wanted a site that would be easy to create and very user friendly.
Affordances - I then remembered a website I used when teaching my students how to create a website and found it to be very easy to create and user friendly. So, I decided to go with Weebly. Weebly is a free site and if you are an educator you can add up to 40 student sites for free. I have created physical portfolios back when I completed my first Masters Program. Creating a physical portfolio was easy because it was a large binder that housed all the documents, certificates, and pictures. We have progressed in this digital age, where creating a e-portfolio would take less time, paper, money, and resources than creating a physical one. By creating an e-portfolio its easy to add documents that you are already submitting for class. You can now attach, give a brief description and make public for all to see. The portfolio is a good reference for you to use when job hunting. Weebly has a lot of tools to offer, you can include surveys, slideshows, video, and audio. The amount of tools they have are amazing especially for a free site. When looking at some of the other free portfolios, there weren't may tools that couldn't be utilized unless you paid for them. Weebly also has a Pro section as well, but many tools are still available without that subscription unlike most other sites I researched.
Context - If I had the choice to select a program for my students to use, hands down this would be the site. Its kid friendly and very easy to use. Students would enjoy being able to have so much personalization capabilities that they would forget they are actually doing work. This website can be used in multiple content areas. I believe this will be a tool that I utilize with my 4th ad 5th grade students on the elementary level. 4th graders could use it to enhance writing and 5th graders could use it with a science focus.
Here is a link to my portfolio. I started working on this so it is just a draft, but I added a page that links it to my blogger. Enjoy! Tiffanie Thomas E-Portfolio
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