Welcome to our new series, all about Homeschool Portfolios!

This is post #1 (and video #1! Scroll down to see that)

Here is post #2: Physical Portfolios

 

Homeschool Portfolio Series #1: Digital Portfolios

A digital portfolio. Why? Here are a few reasons that we love digital portfolios.

1. Space saving! You don’t have to keep all the work, drawings, art projects- You take pictures and videos and upload them! Saves so much space AND time, and it is a great way to submit your portfolio to the district or state if you have to do that.
2. SIMPLE. Everyday we simply upload the pictures and videos we have taken at school time, and write about it. That’s it!

 

A digital portfolio. How? We use Trello!

We use Trello for our digital portfolios, but you can also:

1. Make an Instagram account and save items there.
2. Send them to a specific email.
3. Save them to Google Drive, or One Note.

 

We already have a video of how to set up a Trello board, but we also have a new video of our new Trello board!

See those below:

 

 

 

A digital portfolio. What do we save?

We have a few different sections in our digital portfolio.

1. Read alouds
2. Daily schedule, that we save to “Journal”
3. Lists of goals and standards, that we save to “Completed”
4. Anything else I want to keep record of! Such as our schedule/rhythm, goals that my kids have for the year vs goals I have, and more. See that last video above for a video on this!

I take pictures of the pages we do everyday, or my kids in the middle of an activity. Sometimes I take extra pictures and videos, sometimes just the bare minimum. I then upload those as attachments to Trello!

This way, I don’t have to keep many consumable items (we do keep some, you will see what on the next post about physical portfolios!); and its a great way to make your kids ok with throwing away drawings!

 

Any questions? Let us know with a comment!