and Digital
Portfolios
John Rivera
Specialist, Instructional Technology
Educational Service Center East
Los Angeles Unified School District
john.rivera@lausd.net
Google Certified Teacher
Twitter: @johnrivera

What? Why? How? When? Where?
What is a Portfolio?
What is a Digital Portfolio?
Why have a Digital Portfolio?
Why use Google Sites?
How, When, and Where do you facilitate Digital
Portfolios?

What is a Portfolio?
From the Preface:
"...reincarnations of large
memory boxes... We formed
part of our identity from the
content of these memory
boxes."
Source: Wiley-VCH

What is a Digital Portfolio?
Digital documents organized and presented
with some type of "authoring" software and
stored in an electronic container...
● CD-R
● DVD-R
● Other Portable Memory Device
● On the World Wide Web!!!

Why Have a Digital Portfolio?
Source: Barbara Stauble, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Four key pillars of Lifelong Learning

Why Google Sites?
● Free Web Site Builder
● Easy-to-Use
● Helps Build Student Technology Skills
● Automatically Stores Pages Online
● Interactivity and Feedback
● Collaborative Capabilities
● Integrated Container of Work with Google
Drive
● Secured CIPA Compliance when used in
Google Apps for Education and School AUP

Portfolio Levels (Helen C. Barrett)
Level 1 - Portfolio as Storage
Collection
Level 2 - Portfolio as Workspace
Collection + Reflection
Level 3 - Portfolio as Showcase
Presentation

Steps for Developing a Portfolio
● Create a first page as an introduction and table of
contents
● Set up a structure around the goals/themes identified in
purpose statement
● One page for each goal/theme with links to first page
● Upload artifacts to page or create hyperlinks to
documents online
● Write reflections about how the artifacts demonstrate
achievement of goals
● Write future learning goals
● Publish portfolio online

Demonstration of Google Sites

Sample Portfolios
Designing the Orange County Fairgrounds
21st Century Learning Course Portfolio

Essential Digital Portfolio Resources
Creating an Interactive Portfolio with Google
Sites (Helen C. Barrett, 2008)
Google Apps for Education
Google Sites Web Resources - EdTech Hacker
(John Lenhardt, 2010-2012)
Googlios (G. Alex Ambrose, 2010-2012)