A student portfolio of the primary education years

Remember those folders filled with your work that you would bring home at the end of each school year? All those wonderful stories you wrote, projects you did, and pictures you drew? You can probably name a report (research paper) you wrote that you were really proud of, or that taught you some very important things, and maybe you still have it. Or maybe, like many of us, it was lost long ago. Having a digital portfolio of your best pieces is a true treasure and one that we can help our students give themselves.

The purpose of this recipe is to provide a vision of what a student's portfolio can look like after several years of building. The pages in this portfolio used the simple templates created in other parts of this chapter. In reality, a student's portfolio can become quite complex with collections inside collections, but even a simple portfolio can be a wonderful way of showing growth over time, and become a wonderful treasure for...