Writing+Portfolio+Review

English teachers report that students spent a lot of time on the aesthetics rather than the writing

What did you notice about the 7th grade portfolio?
What was your reaction to doing a digital portfolio to showcase your work?
 * Student investment in the terms of time spent on the process
 * how is the student's personality part of the portfolios
 * Is the portfolio more important than the house
 * Variety of work samples
 * all portfolios are unified by some sort of a Table of Contents to help the external reader
 * Is the portfolio for the learner? an audience? both?
 * The teacher guided their reflection by guiding students to respond to specific questions such as, how have you grown as a writer?

What did you notice about the AP portfolio?

 * **Specific to writing about reading**
 * **Annotated Table of Contents**
 * **Student included drafts with notes on them**
 * **Providing children with other children's work might help other students to reflect, one of the reflections said I need some suggestions of what else to change?**
 * **When you don't know where do you go? Who should you seek?**
 * **It seemed as if she reached a ceiling.**
 * **AP writing is controlled by the test.**
 * **Reflections were unique and self reflective**
 * **Way she invited the reader in**
 * **Wanted to see what her work was like after seeing the opening**

Differences between the two portfolios

 * Teacher and individual interacting through the individual piece reflection
 * Each work sample is informing the next work sample
 * Final reflection on the whole portfolio