Digital Portfolios

What is it?

An electronic portfolio, e-portfolio or digital portfolio is a collection of electronic evidence such as text, electronic files, images, multimedia, blog entries, and hyperlinks assembled and managed by a user, usually on the web. e-portfolios are dynamic and can be added to or modified over time. Some e-portfolio applications permit varying degrees of audience access. An e-portfolio can also become a learning record that provides actual evidence of achievement.  e-portfolios can facilitate students' current work examples and reflection on their own learning.

What does it look like?

Applications / use in Victorian schools

• Personalised learning (Dandenong Primary School, 2008) - Using Microsoft PowerPoint as a hyperlinked menu point, students developed and presented an ICT-based reflection of their primary school experience in the form of a reflective digital portfolio. These portfolios contained the student’s work, reflective thoughts on their progress, and evaluations of their achievements, using a large variety of programs, including audio and visual multimedia. The completed digital portfolios were then used as a tool for both the teachers and students in the process of transition to secondary school.
• Trialling digital learning portfolios across the Cluster (Hopkins Cluster of Schools, 2006) - The project explored the potential of digital portfolios to capture evidence of student learning.
• Student Exhibition & Digital Portfolios using Authentic Assessment (Sunbury Primary School, 2006) - A student exhibition and digital portfolios were developed with authentic assessment using the vehicle of mathematics trails.