Teachers can use blogs as e-portfolios for their students and can also provide resources for students on their own teacher blog. In creating a resource blog, teachers can post class assignments and provide background information, research resources, and rubric information. Also, classroom information such as rules of the classroom, scheduled course times, upcoming topics to be discussed can also be listed. If there are areas that won’t be covered in the classroom, but you’d like to make available for students to do further research, you can provide those resources.
If you’d like to use the blog as an e-portfolio, you’ll have to decide how you’d like posts and assignments to be displayed. For instance, do you want everyone to see all assignments, do you want only students in a particular class to see their respective assignments, or do you want students to only see their own works? E-portfolios can be a great asset for students to keep track of their work, and they’ll have works to present if ever they need to show their capabilities.
The following is a helpful resource page for creating e-portfolios: http://blog.helenbarrett.org/p/resources.html
Reference: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0450.pdf
