ERIC Number: EJ756481
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Mar
Pages: 5
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I'm Ready for My Close-up Now: Electronic Portfolios and How We Read Identity
Williams, Bronwyn T.
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v50 n6 p500-504 Mar 2007
Electronic portfolios allow students to include video, images, hyperlinks, and audio, along with written texts, to create varied and comprehensive representations of what they have accomplished. Such collections of information also change the ways that teachers and students choose to present themselves and the ways that we read these presentations of self. As we learn more about how we read and respond to identities created by combinations of word, image, and sound, we need to help students think more carefully and critically about how this should influence the way they create and compile electronic portfolios.
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Portfolio Assessment, Multimedia Materials, Hypermedia, Self Expression, Self Concept, Technology Uses in Education, Cultural Context, Associative Learning, Media Adaptation, Psychological Patterns, Critical Thinking, Context Effect
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