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Portfolios collect a variety of documents and artifacts to communicate accomplishments, works in progress, or academic histories. With the Internet, both students and teachers can offer portfolios electronically, sharing work with peers, colleagues, parents, potential employers—anyone in the world—easily and quickly. Learn how to set up the process in this tutorial.
Such e-portfolios can typically serve one or more of these purposes:
Class project portfolios: Present a gallery of student work on a particular assignment or collect materials gathered by students over a longer period of time for a large project. Allow students to collaborate and assemble their collective output.
Student portfolios: Gather student product and responses to make assessment easier—the teacher uses Acrobat reviewing and commenting tools to provided feedback to students on their work. Serve as a digital resume to aid students in acquiring employment or entrance into institutions of higher education and to provide students opportunity to reflect on their work as a whole.
Curriculum portfolios: Collect a package of materials for students where no textbook exists or as a way to augment or update an existing textbook.
Teaching portfolios: Offer evidence of teaching performance to streamline a professional certification process or perhaps to show implementation of teaching methodologies. Include examples of lesson plans, unit study plans, an assertion of a particular teaching philosophy, images of students at work, or perhaps a video of the teacher teaching a class.
With e-portfolios sophisticated, universally accessible, and easy to update, using PDF portfolios with its reviewing and commenting features creates a powerful means of providing assessment and feedback on the wide variety of media artifacts that students generate.
