Electronic Portfolio

I want to start out by saying nice job to everyone on the article projects.  Though we were to only choose three to blog about I ended up checking all of them out to see what everyone had to say.  The first article project I chose to take a look at is the project on video games and learning.  I did not find it surprising that video games can have a great affect on improving hind-eye coordination.  What I did find surprising, at least somewhat, is that playing video games can improve performance in science, math, and literacy.  The second project I took a look at was the project on Bugscope.  This was really interesting to me.  I had no idea that something like the Bugscope was available.  Being able to have students get so in depth into a project like this and have support available to the teacher and students, in my opinion, a very worthwhile project to do with students in the classroom.  The final project I took a look at was the video on ESL and Technology.  I was shocked to learn that there are more than 400 spoken languages in the United States public schools.  This seems to be a huge number.  Using technology to help ESL students learn seems like something we should definitely be doing.  We need to help ESL students get the same out of their school day as their English language natives.

http://durak.org/kathy/portfolio/index.html

            Above is the link to what I believe is a not so good digital portfolio.  The components seem to be there but I still feel as though it is lacking.  I think it is lacking artifacts that show how the teacher has grown professionally.  I think it is important to include artifacts showing how the teaching professional has grown along with his students.  If those types of artifacts were to be included in this portfolio then it would bring it up to par and make it a meaningful professional portfolio.

http://depts.washington.edu/tepacct/tucker/indexl.htm

            The above link is to a digital portfolio that I believe is a great example of what a digital portfolio should be.  It includes all that proper artifacts and entries and is very well structured and organized.  I will try to use this as a template for putting together my own portfolio.