E+Portfolios

E Portfolios

Mahara is an E-portfolio web application that can be used online by uploading documents and images. It also includes a blogging tool and social networking system. This is a valuable tool to encourage students to keep a digital scrapbook of their work. Once students commence senior levels, journaling in VCE Dance and Drama are expected skills students are to have. To encourage middle school students to partake in learning this skill making it interactive motivates and engages studentsto learn these skills required at senior levels.

With the implementation of laptop and Ipads in schools students are exposed to a broader range of multimodal devices to collate and submit a semester's work. Too often students loose work or misplace smaller tasks. With the implementation of an E-journal this elimanates this problem. Students are also able to present work with the inclusion of visuals such as sketches, rehearsals videos, performance stills and videos as well as reflections, peer and teacher feedback.

With the introduction of the Ultranet (2010), this mode of assessment is frequenting many classrooms. According to the DEECD (2010) the Ultranet aims to As a lead user of the Ultranet and being part of a pilot program the Ultranet (despite small networking issues) appears to be an excellent way to engage students and promote meaningful educational tasks.
 * create an online learning portfolio to keep track of their progress throughout their school life
 * collaborate with students and teachers using wikis, blogs, polls, message boards and many other web 2.0 tools
 * access learning tasks, submit work and receive feedback from teachers
 *  access up-to-date, personalised information about their learning.