Students in your school
MyPortfolio is designed to be suitable for learners from Yr7 up, with many schools using it with even younger students
Some examples of use with students (it is hard for me to see student pages without being "let in")
- Waverly Primary School as an example of wide use in a primary context and how to introduce it to younger learners
- Tawa Intermediate and their cluster
- Napier Girls developed tutorials to build student proficiency
- St Peter's College, Palmerston North for wonderful use in music, including NCEA
- Hamilton Girls for language use at NCEA level
- Burnside High School for digital technologies
What use are you making of MyPortfolio with your students?
Some tips from me
- Keep it simple and small to start with
- Start out with a group to "manage" members
- Seek more than one subject/curriculum area to "carry" the training load, ideally even use it for cross-curriculum learning (e.g. Albany Senior High School),
- Ask some student users in other schools
Students in your contributing schools
Students can keep their MyPortfolio (and everything in it) account when they change school. You draw from a number of contributing schools (Evans Bay Intermediate, Holy Cross, St Annes, SWIS, St Francis, St Teresa's, etc).
How well do you presently do "recognition of prior learning"?
So, why not work with your donor schools to develop MyPortfolio capability before students arrive at St Catherines? A possible example could be Rangiora.
And when they leave you they could
Join the 10,000 tertiary students in www.myportfolio.ac.nz or other institution-specific instances of Mahara
Or stay in the school version if they are in teacher training (UoA, Massey, UoC). Who could be next in here?
Or export their portfolio in a standard format
Or you could "keep them live" in your institution until they have decided what to do next