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Richer Picture - A digital portfolio of student achievement
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"The best educational technology projects are those that start with the education, rather than the technology."
-- Dr. David Niguidula, Founder

Our mission is to help schools get a richer picture of student learning through the use of digital portfolios. We can help you collect, select, and reflect and show student growth over time.

Digital Portfolios
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More Recent News:

  • Learn how Ponaganset and Mt. Hope High Schools are using portfolios for Graduation by Proficiency.
  • On the radio: Elementary portfolios at Hopkinton, NH
  • Newsletter: Using Exemplars with Digital Portfolios
  
News and Events
  • Summer 2009 Workshops! Get started with digital portfolios this summer! Sign up for our workshops around the country, including our Portfolio 101 and Opening the Power of Portfolios sessions.


  • See us at upcoming conferences! You can learn more about Richer Picture® portfolios at a conference near you! See our list of upcoming conferences.


  • Education Week / Technology Counts: A special report from Education Week describes digital portfolios as an "alternative approach to assessing progress." Click here to read the full article and link to the complete "Digital Decade" report.

  • Workshops at your school: Check out our list of workshop offerings to help you get started or to help your staff think deeper about assessment.


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    Workshops 2009


    Digital Portfolio
    Workshops

  • Summer 2009 in Concord, NH and Providence, RI
  • Online workshops soon!


    • National Educational Computing Conference

  • Washington, DC
  • Gallery Walk: June 29, 11 am - 1 pm
  • Birds of a Feather, June 30, 4:45 - 6:15 pm
  • Presentation, July 1, 1:30 - 2:30 pm
    • . Teams of administrators, teachers and library media specialists work together in Manchester, N.H. to plan the implementation of digital portfolios in their schools. .
    Planning for portfolios: who decides?
    It might sound odd at first, but schools have more success with digital portfolios when it is NOT considered a technology project.

    The success of a digital portfolio project depends on having it fit within the daily activities of teachers and students. Thus, it helps when the people who will actually be implementing the portfolios -- the "end users" -- are involved in the planning.

    In the planning stage, what works for many schools is to form a team that includes an administrator (such as a