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AHA Senior Project is a response to the AFG Technology Objective. //This wiki provides additional information about the process.//
E-portfolios are a valuable learning and assessment tool. An e-portfolio is a digitized collection of artifacts including demonstrations, resources, and accomplishments that represent an individual, group, or institution. This collection can be comprised of text-based, graphic, or multimedia elements archived on a Web site or on other electronic media such as a CD-ROM or DVD. An e-portfolio is more than a simple collection—it can also serve as an administrative tool to manage and organize work created with different applications and to control who can see the work. E-portfolios encourage personal reflection and often involve the exchange of ideas and feedback. Three types of e-portfolios are described in this report: student e-portfolios, teaching e-portfolios, and institutional e-portfolios. E-portfolios can support student advisement, career preparation, and credential documentation; the sharing of teaching philosophies and practices; department and program self-studies; and institutional and program accreditation processes. This report defines and categorizes e-portfolios, offers examples of higher education e-portfolio implementations, reviews e-portfolio technology, and addresses adoption issues. FROM George Lorenzo and John Ittelson report

What is an ePortfolio? Why use it?
An electronic portfolio is a web-based tool that allows the student to exhibit a collection of their work or **artifacts** in many formats (audio,video,graphics,text,etc.). An ePortfolio is not a haphazard collection of artifacts but rather a reflective tool that demonstrates growth over time. This also allows for a formal assessment alternative to testing which enables teachers another venue to assess student development over a period of time.

An effective electronic portfolio is a balance of multimedia projects and portfolio development. The possibilities are endless; there are no limits to the creativity students can employ to demonstrate growth and success.

AHA's commitment...
to providing the necessary tools to enable the student to excel has now taken another step forward in empowering the student to use technology to obtain information.

Regardless of the different learning theories and viewpoints that exist one of our main goals as educators is to create a learning environment that encourages higher-order thinking skills. For that to happen a collaboration of student-teacher interdependencies should exist. Students must be empowered and motivated to learn and build their own understanding/knowledge of a concept through interacting with their environment of which their school and teacher are a part. The teacher's role is that of a facilitator, as opposed to spoon feeding the information as a means to a grade. The teacher plays a critical and challenging role as both a resource of information and as a designer of an environment that ignites curiosity for a particular topic. Also important to note... this process does not happen overnight. This is a continuous learning process that with the proper guidance allows both student and teacher to flourish and grow.

Technology's Role...
is to assist in the process, to enable each individual the opportunity to gather information readily available at their fingertips, to enhance what is being taught and to broaden the scope of learning. The ePortfolio also enables each student the ability to display their work