Goal: each student to create and maintain a digital record of their eLearning and ICT projects.

Challenge: what is the best and easiest strategy for a whole of school achievement of the above goal?

Ultimately, the answer lies in the the chosen application / program and whether there is a committed teacher to maintain and structure such a challenge.

Solutions:

• Build design needs to accommodate editing and change for the life of that student at your school. It therefore, cannot be structured by grade, class or form. It need to allow for progression over a number of years. Use of Sports Teams or Houses has been a solution to this
• Decide on the best design program for your students and staff to use.
  • MS Powerpoint is the popular choice. A shortcoming of Power point is that if you upload it to the web it can be cumbersome and slow
  • The alternative is to use a webpage authoring program. MS Frontpage is an option. It, however is not WSWG and students find it difficult to use as most objects need to be arranged in tables.
  • MS Publisher 2003+ however, has demonstrated it can be easy for students (particularly in Primary School) to use and, it is easy to manage when posting to the Web or, onto an Intranet. See example (L3) student
  • Secondary and more advanced primary students can use Macrimedia Dreamweaver as an authoring tool.
• The next step is to build a school Intranet which provides a 'shell' or map allowing a directory structure for easy use by all.
• What will the content be?
• How is a eFolio different to a Digital Portfolio? Essentially, the main difference is that an eFolio is a web authored document, that can be published to the Web, for wide audience viewing. eFolios are aimed at being ongoing transparent learning logs that can be viewed by the school community. MS Publisher is ideal, as it:
  • Requires no html knowledge
  • Contains all elements within a single file.
  • Is easy for students to use and edit. The focus is content, not, construction.
  • Allows for digital drawing
  • Easy hyperlinking within and to external sites
  • One step web publishing process
  • Step by step guide.(204Kb MS Word Doc)