Polona Drenik Trop, Petra Čalić, SŠFKZ

The paper is a clear presentation describing the many usesof e–portfolios in the clasroom by our students at Secondary school of Pharmacy, Cosmetics and Health Care in Ljubljana. Six teachers and two departments of students were involved in our project team.

This paper is introducing the use of e-portfolio within a subject Entrepreneurship. The students have undergone four cycles while using e-portfolio in the classroom, by starting with concepts of business ideas, to creation of virtualenterprise, which is integrated into e-portfolio as a business plan and introduction of a new enterprise. Exchange of experiences and opinions made some productive (so called “critical”) friendships among students.

Availability of Entrepreneurship teacher and technical help, along with introducing of Mahara’s apps by teacher of Computer Science, was continuously there for all the students involved.

The survey sheet done by our students, after the finishing fourth cycle of the process, has clearly shown the following: e-portfolio was used for school work only, linkage with Facebook was found, it is useful to use since all the data are systematical to be found somewhere in the web sites, knowing of term critical friendship and how to become one, difficulties they dealt with were mostly ones of technical nature, like how to add a file or editing of the view.

The use of e-portfolio has demonstrated as advisable and useful tool by providing a systematical saving of worksheets, single tasks, researchapproaches and tasks, interpretation of results, graphic displays, photo displays and implementation of views that can be defined independently by students.