Open E-Portfolio on OVSD
Greg has overhauled some Portal functionality based on the wise comments from you users. Google extended their tools to our domain allowing Greg to create the first version of the Open OVSD e-Portfolio. It provides a student with an email account, a private work space and the ability to store Docs and Spreadsheets. These are all powered by Google. If you click on the Student Link at ORVSD.org it takes you to an information page and then auto redirects you to the Static OVSD Google page which you can make your own by requesting an account. This functionality is one end of the spectrum for what people think of as E-Portfolio. Intel has donated a community Portal which offers the other end of the E-Portfolio spectrum. Please let us know where you would like the Open E-Portfolio to go. Google has allowed us to integrate all their tools into it so it will be flexible.

GoogleDocs for e-Portfolios
Helen Barret, a leading voice on e-Portfolios, describes her recent experience using GoogleDocs for her online portfolio. She also includes a "How To" page.
I think it would help to add Google's "Page Creator" tool for publishing the portfolio.

Page Creator
The Google Apps for Education tools we've been using are a subset of the full Google suite. Not all the features are available yet. For example, the Page Creator tool is available but only to the site admin to create site-wide pages - it is not yet available to regular users on the hosted OVSD domain. There are a few other features that aren't available yet like the "discuss" features in Google Docs. Hopefully Google will be opening them up to us soon.



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