Digital Portfolios

Recently, I began creating a digital portfolio using Weebly.com as part of our Digital Leadership initiative in Castleberry ISD. So, you may ask "why create a digital portfolio?" Digital portfolios provide a platform for pulling together information which provides more detail or greater explanation. Our digital portfolios in CISD include a home page "About Me" and the five ISTE Standards for Administrators - Visionary Leadership, Digital-Age Learning Culture, Excellence in Professional Practice, Systemic Improvement, and Digital Citizenship. In addition to providing a platform for pulling together information, digital portfolios have several benefits:

Benefits of creating a portfolio 

• demonstrates effort, progress, and achievement
• makes connections between theory and practice
• documents your learning progress over time
• provides evidence of meeting professional standards
• enhances communication and organizational skills
• greater awareness of strengths and weaknesses
• encourages reflective self-inquiry
• illustrates good teaching
• supports professional growth
• leads to goal planning
• visible collection of skills to present to a prospective employer
• celebrate accomplishments
• improves teaching
• often considered authentic assessment

Benefits of electronic format

• develops and demonstrates technology skills
• ability to include a greater range of artifacts
• can better capture the dynamic process of teaching and learning
• easier to revise and maintain
• enables connections within the portfolio
• reusability of artifacts in different contexts or multiple portfolios
• greater ease of distribution to interested parties
• accessible from anywhere and to a wide audience
• highly portable
• simpler to receive feedback on
• more opportunities to display creativity
• creates technological self-confidence
• can build community
• supports integration of technology into the classroom

(retrieved from https://ella.mtholyoke.edu/wiki/site/ab69aa44-4139-4f71-b19f-a5d2360dffb8/why%20create%20an%20e-portfolio%3F.html.)

As noted above, a digital portfolio "documents your learning progress over time." This to say that while my digital portfolio will be an on-going process, I have shared the link with you below.

http://juliedavisphd.weebly.com