Managing ePortfolios Using Google Sites

I recently implemented ePortfolios in my Grade 4 classroom using Google Sites. Since my students are in elementary school, I have been uploading all of the pictures and assignments to their websites myself. No small feat for a whole room full of children. I was beginning to get frustrated with having to go into each child’s account separately to upload and make changes. However, today I discovered that if I make myself an (co)owner of the site under “site settings”/”sharing,” I end up with a list of all the students’ sites with the ability to easily go in and out of each site to make changes --all while logged in as myself. What a relief! Next week students will be going through work during class and selecting pieces to put into their portfolios from the month of October. The students will be selecting work based on a rubric which asks them to reflect of the reason for choosing the assignment, what they learned from it, and why they liked that particular piece so much.