Cyber Portfolio: The Innovative Menu for 21st Century Technology

Abstract

Cyber portfolio is a valuable innovative menu for teachers who seek out strategies or methods to integrate technology into their lessons. This paper presents a straightforward preparation on how to innovate a menu that addresses the 21st century skills blended with higher order thinking skills, multiple intelligence, technology and multimedia. Specifically, this cyber portfolio is an administrative tool that manages, organizes, displays and evaluates the e-portfolio of students. Additionally, through cyber portfolio, these e-portfolios or the digitized collection of students’ outputs (e.g., text-based, word-processed documents, graphics, videos or multimedia elements, and other e-resources) are easily archived on a Website or other electronic media, such as a CD-ROM (compact disc read only memory) or DVD (digital video disc). With cyber portfolio, teachers can control and easily navigate to the various works of their students as well as track student’s e-portfolio. In short, the cyber portfolio provides teachers with a menu or a set of choices that increase their capabilities in using the latest technology while improving their students’ abilities to communicate the value of their work. Moreover, this paper, discusses the “hows” of developing a cyber portfolio as an innovative menu that speeds up the teaching-learning process and blends classroom activities with latest technology available in the Internet. Finally, some conclusions on the effective utilization of cyber portfolio as a public table in showcasing students’ individual achievements are also presented.