Student websites give teachers and students the ability to view versions of work side by side.
This is one of the most powerful tools that a classroom website provides.
Now, there is no more losing work or seeing paper damaged. Student assignments are maintained in a virtual portfolio.
Remember the days of hard copy student portfolios? Today, these are as antiquated as dial-up Internet.
Teachers and students can throw away flimsy folders, pencils and paper.
With student websites, maintained in a teachers classroom website, student work is kept in a virtual file cabinet.
Now, with the student website hosted on a wiki application, students can maintain any work in cyberspace on their own secure, private web pages.
They can return to any version of any activity or project at anytime. If they don't like a new version, they simply save an older version, and the new one is replaced.
Not only does a versions page maintain student writing and projects, it helps them see their progress.
The versions page gives both students and teachers the ability to place any saved version of a web page side by side to view changes and additions.
This is the 21st century virtual portfolio.
No more lost papers, smudged pencil or marked-up pages.
It's all neat and clean, and maintained in a digital file cabinet on a classroom website.
A creative teacher, who wants to see student progress within one learning unit or throughout the school year, can open the student website, call up the versions section, and place any saved version of a single activity on one classroom website page.
Changes and additions are highlighted, so the teacher can see exactly what has been done to improve the work.
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