Many of us have become comfortable with the present
way of recording student achievement with the good old 1,2,3,4 or A, B, C+, C,
D system. There is an air reluctance to
brace the future of e-portfolios in regards to do we have enough technology
training, what will the software require of us, how the parents will receive
the new system and are we, the district and province in the position to support
us in this endeavor. True the e-portfolios provide student voice and visual
representation of the students achievement but how much more time will the
reporting mean and will the parents take the time to view them. What about the
research behind such an endeavor was the question posed and would this be
helpful when addressing parents about the change in reporting? Well, we looked
at some information online from Finland and we forward further reading on this
topic. Next time we will look at Springpad, a program currently used for
creating e-portfolios to show and communicate student achievement and see what
exactly it all entails and how challenging this endeavor may be.
By Liza