ePortfolio Final

Presentations

Somerville High School

The Oneville Project:
Community Cooperation in Young People’s Success
*Illustration kindness of Clemson University ePortfolio program `
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SHS ePortfolio
October 2010 - February 2011
Who were the people
on the journey?
Students and teachers
worked together to map the journey!

Designing process together

Remarkable collegeality

Inspiring each other!

What did participants do?
Experiments with
Open Source (Free) Platforms

 Googlesites, Wikispaces, Posterous

 Stored future-forward in “Cloud” !

(not on SHS server)

Created different types of entries

Product entry Process entry

to showcase to document
achievement efforts over time

Multidisciplinar
y
entry
to show ability to
apply knowledge
Created entries to show “whole” person
Personal
identity
School Extracurricular
achievement activities

Community
service Employment
How did participants do it?
 ePortfolio project structure

 Drop-in eportfolio workshops 3X per week

 Independent and work in small peer groups

 Group meetings

 Practice and Final Presentation preparation

 responsibility
teamwork
listening
acquiring & evaluating information
interpreting information
creativity
negotiation
working with cultural diversity
 present in groups
2
Douglas 3
Rocky Anand
Samantha Mr. Maloney
1 David
Sergio Ms. Olsen
Zoe
Astrid 5
Mr. Glynn Ms. Halpenny 4
Vanessa Ms. Li
Kamilla Mr. Petriv
Sonam Thiago
 Sergio Resendes
Senior

“Driving into the Future”

How my academic, vocational & personal life show
a keen interest for automotive engineering
Innovative approaches to
portfolio entries
in mathematics
 Zoe Blickenderfer
Junior

“Everything and more!”

An ePortfolio that shows how
I like a lot of things and keep busy
 Original multidisciplinary entries
demonstrate how students apply learning

English: Public
Original poetry Speaking

Expressive Arts:
Images & Music
Astrid Vasquez
Ninth Grade

“It’s not what you see on the outside

. . .there is a lot more on the inside”
 Mr. Chris Glynn
Social Studies Teacher

“Creating a constructive online

presence for novices… like me!”
https://sites.google.com/site/christopherglynn/
 present in groups
2
Douglas 3
Rocky Anand
Samantha Mr. Maloney
1 David
Sergio Ms. Olsen
Zoe
Astrid 5
Mr. Glynn Ms. Halpenny 4
Vanessa Ms. Li
Kamilla Mr. Petriv
Sonam Thiago
 Douglas Funes
Junior

“Seeing further than I am”

 Rocky Man
Sophomore

“Everything affects the next thing”

Things I do will change the next generation!
 Samantha
Bergstrom-Carvalho
Junior

“Do one thing every day that scares you”

ePortfolio for the technologically challenged but
enthusiastic learner
 Ms. Susan Olsen
Spanish Teacher

“One Love, OneVille”

Why ePortfolios using wikispaces are superior to paper

http://eportfoliosraolsen.wikispaces.com/
 present in groups
2
Douglas 3
Rocky Anand
Samantha Mr. Maloney
1 David
Sergio Ms. Olsen
Zoe
Astrid 5
Mr. Glynn Ms. Halpenny 4
Vanessa Ms. Li
Kamilla Mr. Petriv
Sonam Thiago
 Anandpreet Singh
Junior

Under Construction:
Creating my next ePortfolio Entry in India. . .
 Mr. Mike Maloney
Physics Teacher

“How to Easily and Effectively

incorporate ePortfolios
in the Classroom”
https://sites.google.com/site/somervillephysics/
Innovative ways that students acquire
and interpret information

“Achieving through
Crowd-Accelerated Learning”
 David Nwachuku
Freshperson

“Making the impossible possible":

Hard work and determination pays off
 present in groups
2
Douglas 3
Rocky Anand
Samantha Mr. Maloney
1 David
Sergio Ms. Olsen
Zoe
Astrid 5
Mr. Glynn Ms. Halpenny 4
Vanessa Ms. Li
Kamilla Mr. Petriv
Sonam Thiago
 Ms. Michelle Li
English Teacher

“Using a
classroom website”

https://sites.google.com/site/mslisenglishclass
 Mr. Yuri Petriv
Computer Teacher

“Reflection on ePortfolios. . .”
http://www.mrpetriv.weebly.com
 Thiago DaCosta
Senior

“The beginnings of an art ePortfolio”

 present in groups
2
Douglas 3
Rocky Anand
Samantha Mr. Maloney
1 David
Sergio Ms. Olsen
Zoe
Astrid 5
Mr. Glynn Ms. Halpenny 4
Vanessa Ms. Li
Kamilla Mr. Petriv
Sonam Thiago
 Ms.
Maureen Halpenny
MathTeacher

“Helping students get ePorfolios ready

and what I learned from the process ”
 Vanessa Cordeiro
Senior

"Vanessa, it's complicated”

 Innovative impacts on
classroom learning
oh, of
course,
vanessa vanessa!

can I do my media
assignment as an
ePortfolio entry?

Oneville Blog
http://oneville.org/innovative-impacts-from-the-eportfolios-on-a-
classroom-at-somerville-high-school/
 Kamilla Esteves Silva
9th grade

”Outgoing & Enjoying Life & Diversity”

Journey across different kinds of education in Brazil and
United States”
Building bridges from personal
passions to academic knowledge

Learns
Loves playing computer
and achieving programming
with video & makes his
games made own game
by others using
SCRATCH!
 Sonam Ngawang
Freshman

“Where Amazing Happens”

Closing remarks:

Al Willis