Resources for Creating Student E-portfolios

"An e-portfolio is an excellent resource for students to showcase and store their digital art, projects, reports and work "

Second Year Software Development and Digital Media computing students create an e-portfolio of their work and interests to date  - one of three assignments for  "BusComm for IT Professionals module".

Below find links to Mahara cloud software Foliofor.me, which is one that we have used in the past year. Prior to this we used a DIT hosted cloud Mahara service managed by DIT, but due to lack of continued funding for this server, this resource is no longer available to us.

Review of current software -............/eportfolio list of software available

Mahara Cloud Software          http://foliofor.me/


Mahara E-portfolio samples

http://www.savvyfolio.net/group/career-portfolio-group/eportfolio-examples




Pathbrite e-portfolio software

Some of the Digital media students prefered Pathbrite because of its advanced graphics capabilities

https://pathbrite.com/portfolio/Pd45uPIKv/domenic-fiorello-studio/category/2011



Website / Create Own Digital Movie showcasing work

Students can also use their Digital Media and video skills
See below Software Programmers e-portfolio showcased via youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9s69lKEZ3w


News Article - Ways to create an e-portfolio

http://www.informationweek.com/software/7-ways-to-create-e-portfolios/d/d-id/1110673?page_number=5

Please look at fellow students e-portfolios - links available on MOODLE

Writing A Blog - Good Resources

Writing a technical blog is an excellent way of sharing your skills and generating a following in your subject area . All software/computing students should develop an area of interest , specialise in it and share their information skills and resources with others using a blog.
Below are some excellent resources on how to set up a blog

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/creating-effective-blogs-websites.html#.VNntVbSHhUO

Screencasting Software

Screencasting is a great tool for using to demonstrate a piece of software or to use as a voiceover with presentation slides

See sample below:

http://www.screencast.com/users/Annette2015/folders/Default/media/25ab0956-dfc0-464f-ab7a-a82cdbafd21f


Mark Glynns blog (Technology Enhanced Learning)
Links on Screencasting :
http://enhancingteaching.com/2012/05/30/screencasting/