ePortfoli0/Website Matrix

Colorado Academic
Standards

ISTE
Standards
for
Teachers

ISTE
Standards
for Students

Blooms
Taxonomy

Mathematics
1. Number Sense,
Properties, and
Operations

2. Patterns, Functions,
and Algebraic
Structures
3. Analysis, Statistics,
and Probability

I create a website
that is specific for
our own
classroom. On the
website, I post a
quick review over
the math
operations we
discuss in class
each day so that
the students have
an updated
reference page to
refer to each day.
This website will
also be beneficial
to parents who do
not know how to
help the students
with the problems.
3. Model digital
age work and
learning
c. Communicate
relevant
information and
ideas effective to
students parents,
and peers using a
variety of digitalage media and
formats

Understand
The website allows
the students to have a
better understanding
of what has been
discussed in class that
day, and gives them
an illustration and
visual reference to
refer to when they are
struggling with a
homework problem.

While learning
about statistics and
graphing, I ask my
students to create
survey for their
classmates to fill
out about their

Apply and Create

The students take the
knowledge they have
learned about our
lesson on graphing
and statistics to
create their own

Constructivism

Student Use

Flipped
Classroom

favorite foods. My
students are then
asked to post their
findings in the form
of a bar graph onto
our classroom
website in order to
demonstrate for the
whole class what
they learned.
4. Critical thinking,
problem solving,
and decision making
c. Collect and
analyze data to
develop a solution
or complete a
project

survey. They are also

demonstrating their
knowledge of
technology by posting
their results onto our
classroom website.

4. Shape, Dimension,
and Geometric
Relationships
Reading, Writing, and Communicating
1. Oral Expression and
Listening

I create a Prezi
presentation for
my class about an
upcoming
assignment about
how to make an
ePortfolio about
themselves. The
homework for that
night is a 5
question online
quiz about the
main topics I
covered in my
presentation to
assess the
students listening
skills.
2. Design and
develop digital
age learning
experiences and
assessments
a. Design or adapt
relevant learning
experiences that
incorporate digital
tools and

Understand
The students
demonstrate their
knowledge obtained
from my presentation
by passing the online
quiz.

resources to
promote student
leaning and
creativity.

2. Reading for All

Purposes
3. Writing and
Composition
4. Research and
Reasoning

I break my students
up into five
separate groups and
assign each student
a famous author to
research. The
students are then
asked to create an
ePortfolio for that
author. The students
will gain knowledge
of not only their
author, but also
about creating
websites and
portfolios.
1. Creativity and
innovation
b. Create original
works as a means of
personal or group
expression

Create
The students are
given sole creative
control over their
project and learn how
to generate and
produce an original
work together as a
group.

Social Studies
1. History

I ask my students to
pick a historical
figure whom they
admire most. The
students will
research the
individual and then
pretend to be a
publicist who is
creating a website
for their famous
figure. The student,
after creating the
website, will pull up
the website for the
class in order to
promote their
famous figure. The
students will also be
expected to create
a reference page

Understand and
Create
The students
demonstrate their
understanding of
proper citation along
with effective
research skills through
this assignment. They
also demonstrate their
ability to generate
their own personal
works and create
effective websites to
display information.

and cite their

sources properly.
3. Research and
information fluency
b. Locate, organize,
analyze, evaluate,
synthesize, and
ethically use
information from a
variety of sources
and media

2. Geography
3. Economics
4. Civics

I ask my students
to jot down a list
of the five most
important rights
and duties they
have as citizens of
the United States.
I then take the
most popular five
and post them to
an ePortfolio that
has been created
for our class. The
students will then
be asked to check
the website and
write a short
paragraph about
why the top five
most important
things they voted
on should be
incorporated into
their everyday
lives.
1 Facilitate and
inspire student
learning and
creativity
b. Engage
students in
exploring realworld issues and
solving authentic
problems using
digital tools and
resources.

Analyze
The students are
evaluating and
analyzing why they
believe the five rights
and duties they
selected are important
and valuable to them.

Science

1. Physical Science
2. Life Science

3. Earth Systems
Science

During one of our

weekly lessons we
are given lima
bean plants to
help discuss the
process of plant
growth. In order to
better understand
this process, we
observe the
weekly progress
of our beans in
our classroom and
record the
observations.
Each week, the
students will be
paired up and
asked to give me
a short summary
to post onto our
classroom
ePortfolio about
what they noticed
that week. At the
end of the project,
we will have a
week by week
summary of what
happened to our
plants.
2. Design and
develop digital
age learning
experiences and
assessments
a. Design or adapt
relevant learning
experiences that
incorporate digital
tools and
resources to
promote student
learning and
creativity

Evaluate
The students will be
responsible for
recording weekly
progress of the plants
and monitoring their
growth and change.

During our
oceanography unit,
the students broken
up into five groups
and are asked to
research a marine
specie I assign to

Analyze and Create

The students will be
finding and selecting
appropriate
information to include
on their website along
with working

them. The students

will then take their
findings and create
a Weebly for our
class to exemplify
why their specie is
the most
interesting. They
will also be
expected to create
a reference page
and cite their
sources
appropriately.
3. Research and
information fluency
c. Evaluate and
select information
sources and digital
tools based on the
appropriateness to
specific tasks

cohesively as a group
to create a unique
personal work.

Differentiation
Learning Disabilities EEOs
Physical Disabilities

I separate my
students into fair
and equal groups
of five that have a
diverse group of
learners with
various physical
and mental
abilitiles. The
students are then
asked to work
together to create
an ePortfolio
about an assigned
country that I give
to them during
our Geography
unit. The students
are able to work
together and
demonstrate their
knowledge of not
only ePortfolios,
but also about
various country
locations. By

Gifted/ Talented

diving my
students into
equal groups,
everyone is given
an equal
opportunity and is
included.
After presenting a
PowerPoint on
how to create a
Weebly, and
spending time
looking at
effective and
ineffective
websites, I ask my
students to create
their own personal
Weebly. The
students are given
full creative
control over the
layout of their
website and
therefore feel free
to express
themselves in
whichever way
they feel most
appropriate. This
demonstrates to
me that the
students
understand how
to use Weebly to
create a website,
and that they
understood my
presentation as
well.

Other
Reflection: The creation of my second matrix was a much easier and quicker process than the first matrix I created. While I still
referred back to my first matrix to refresh myself on the process, I felt as though I had a much stronger sense of confidence and
certainty about this second matrix. When I began creating my own ePortfolio, I never imagined that this is something I would
want to incorporate into my own classroom someday. However, now that I have created this matrix, I realized the potential for
greatness that rests in incorporating these personalized websites into my own classroom. I have become really fond of the idea of
creating a classroom website for my students because I believe this to be an extremely beneficial resource for my students and
my students parents.