Digital Portfolios

The work portfolio is something I would generally lump with artists and cartoonists when thinking about it. Interestingly I have had to change this perspective as I have moved through the education department at UT. Our portfolios include different items that we've completed through our program. I like the use of digital portfolios specifically. There are som many useful means of distributing a digital portfolio with little or no harm environmentally or monetarily. I have made numerous assignments that will end up in my portfolio(now on taskstream). The sweet part about this is that I can email, or just give someone access to, my portfolio that lives anywhere in the world. They can see what I'm able to do in terms of education with very little real effort on my part. The digital portfolio is definitely something I would like to see enter secondary educatioon. Students could choose their best papers and individual assignments and give universities an easier way of properly judging their effort in high school. It will likely happen at some point, but given that it's a good idea it probably wouldn't be instituted for quite some time.