Preservice Teachers’ Perspectives on the Development of Electronic Portfolios using zPortfolio System

Paper presented at the annual meeting of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference (SITE 2009),

42 preservice teachers have created their online portfolios during the 13 weeks of Educational Technology Course using ZPortfolio during fall 2007 semester. The study investigated perceptions of preservice teachers on building electronic portfolios using ZPortfolio system. The presentation of this paper will include description of the study, discussions of results, showcase of example portfolios created during this study (permissions obtained from participants) and step by step portfolio creation process with the free tool called ZPortfolio.