MrsC

toc This is going to record our progress with E Portfolios!

**Pre 2009**
Every student had a 'paper' portfolio which really just containing their work in English, predominantly written language. While these had proved to be successful over the many years that we have had them they did provide a narrow view of the students learning.

For the last couple of years, students in my own class had used wikispaces for keeping up to date with class work and also had their own blogs.

During 2008 we had a LMS, Ultranet, installed on our server and this looked to provide a useful vehicle for starting eportfolios. We initially tried this but due to difficulties of access outside of school for some students we didn't actually continue with eportfolios.

2009
Still interested in eportfolios, this was one of my goals for the year. As Ultranet was going to updated (this didn't actually happen until July) and was said to have an improved eportfolio section, we held off implementing any eportfolios.

Once Ultranet had been updated we looked into eportfolios but found it not at all user friendly. There were too many separate sections for students to deal with if they wanted to set up an eportfolio. We also found that the 'pubic' could not access uSpace (the eportfolio section of Ultranet) and both the students and teachers concerned wanted the students to share their voice with others around the world.

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