eportfolio assignment Tech play 2

http://www.portfoliogen.com/leisabooker/

and http://www. leisabooker.weebly.com


I found both beneficial for eportfolio for a novice.

 The Weebly site has a navigation to upload the pictures and links.  It walks you step by step to create and upload with  embedded video links.

The portfoliogen is specific for teachers.  It houses all information that that can be updated and can be used as a electronic resume for different states.  If asks to whom you would be interested in sharing your information with. The site can also be adapted for classroom use for assignments for students, It has that link as an option as well.


Both give the bare minimum for design because all in all the job is to get you to pay for an upgrade to to keep your information.

I would choose the Weebly site since I am a novice.  But for students I would choose the portfoliogen for lessons.

• Identify affordances. In your blog post, write about the affordances of the tools you explored. Consider how and why that tool might be the best choice for you.

I used the site to upload pictures of my lessons for teaching timelines to 2nd grade students.  This is important to me because I support vertically the science  and social studies for 5th grade.  My lessons are based on 3rd grade TEKS  and they are hard to recreate for 2nd grade.  This is a visual lesson plan for me as well as an example to show my technique.

• Consider context. Would you make a different choice of tool if you were asking your students to create an ePortfolio? Why or why not? Discuss the affordances of these tools for others in different contexts.

Because they are second grade students it would only benefit me to use as a record, but i could use it to show them how to use it as a tool that can be used to record their science explorations as a modeling tools.

The 5th grade students would benefit more with this. It can be used to gather all of the lessons and materials to be used to enroll in the districts magnet schools. They could video vocal performances for the ARTS school, take pictures of the paintings and sculptures, video tape work on science experiments for the STEM fair etc. and turn in with test scores and class work for application.