Next Steps to Creating Your ePortfolio

After my high school students created tags and categories for their ePortfolios, their next steps were to:

1. Add one Widget that represents something about their personal interests
2. Update Shelfari with the latest novels they have read and are currently reading (each student had previously created a Shelfari widget for their ePortfolio)
3. Add a minimum of two links (maybe one to your Week Without Walls blog) that represents some of their interests
4. Add an “About me” page that showcases something about who they are as a student and member of society.  They were told not include their complete name, address, phone number, or picture. 

Once each student goes through this process, we will begin to look at one another's ePortfolio profile to analyze and access how each student is perceived digitally by their peers (my next post).  

Students begin to feel empowered as digital citizens when they control their personalized learning environment.  So far, only about 60% of my grade 10 students understand the possibilities available to them by using an ePortfolio to showcase their learning.  They are far more concerned with their status update on Facebook.  This is my attempt to change how they view the web and how they are seen by the outside world.  We'll see what happens next . . .