TESOL 2000: The use of on-line portfolios
TESOL 2000, Wednesday, March 15, 2000
Celeste M. Scholz
Demonstration
ESL in Secondary School
NO AV equipment needed – Supplied
by presenter
The use of on-line portfolios
Research in the past years has shown the value of portfolios where excellent work is selected and saved as a demonstration of individual experiences and skills over time. Frequently, the storage and accessibility of paper portfolios is difficult to manage in a school setting. With on-line portfolios these issues disappear, as the medium is electronic and can be accessed globally through the Internet or locally through the Intranet. The presenter will review the steps to setting up on-line portfolios as well as show examples of student and teacher portfolios through computer slides and html files.
In order to gain experience, the presenter set up a portfolio of professional work using a web site authoring program and posted it on an Internet server that offers free web space. Explanations on why specific software and a particular Internet server were chosen will be detailed. This experience provided valuable knowledge about this process that would be applied to student work later on.
Students received access to post web pages on the school server. After experimenting with the software, they created a design for their homepage. Digital files of selected work from ESL class were saved as html files. Other chosen material students entered into the web site authoring software that saves to html directly. The students created links from their homepage to their selected material, such as a written story or list of books read. After enjoying the web pages of their classmates, they reacted positively through e-mail.
The students may continue to add to their on-line portfolios during their school career and have a collection of their important work as their English skills develop and they move through school.
Check these Middle School ESL student portfolios.
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