ePortfolios+and+Wikis+(Allison)

Educational paradigms Wikis are an ideal venue for ePortfolios particularly those subjects that require group collaboration or displays of progress over an extended period of time or collaboration between student and teacher as it is easily editable and is accessible to any prescribed number of people with internet access.
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Technology development The use of wikis and ePortfolios has increased over the last few years with changes in technology making wikis more accessible and secure for the use and storage of learning. An example of this can be seen at [] This particular teacher has used different versions of wikis over the past 3 years to create ePortfolios with her students as a vital part of the students learning and assessment. During the last five years wikis have also been developing throughout the public domain and are available through a variety of free online sources such as ‘wikispaces’ or ‘Google Sites’ Google Sites is Google's version of a **wiki**, released in February 2008. Students could create presentation portfolios at different benchmarks to showcase their achievement of outcome, goals or standards…this tool would work for both a presentation portfolio and for formative or summative assessment. (Barrett, H. 2007) This has enabled educators and other interested parties to create personalized ePortfolios with the minimum of software or technical knowledge needed at a relatively high standard of presentation.

Eportfolio wikis have been adopted to by people in both education and training and are beginning to emerge in the area of new employments as the availability and awareness of their usefulness and scope in accessing collaborative skills, organizational ability and achievements.

Most portfolios programs begin with the working portfolio. Over time, a student selects items from the working portfolio and uses them to create a display portfolio. Finally, the student develops an assessment portfolio, containing examples of his or her best work, as well as an explanation of why each work is significant. (Brown, Mary 2002)

The only difficulty is that as yet many students develop their ePortfolios within the school or training facilities learning management site or server or using email connections so the portfolio is limited in access when they complete their studies. On average Universities/training facilities currently allow access for only 6-18 months after graduation or completion of the subject so research needs to be done into how graduating students can retain rights and access to their wiki ePortfolios.

If teachers/trainers would like to learn more about the use of ePortfolois inrelation to wikis below is a list of sites containing further examples and information. [] [])  []  []  http://eportfolios.wikispaces.com/how-to  [|https://wikis.glowscotland.org.uk/0000144/Primary_6V's_Shared_Wiki/Our_Writing_Tasks-] []

References: Barrett, [|H.] (2007) //electronic portfolios// updated December 9, 2009 Retrieved from [] Brown, Mary (2002) // Electronic Portfolios in the K-12 Classroom // Updated 08/25/2008 Retrieved from [] Vass, M ( 30 January 2011  ) //Primary 6V’s Shared Wiki// Retrieved from []