Authors:
Willian de Oliveira Silva
1
;
Arlete Teresinha Beuren
1
;
Cristina Mesquita
2
and
Rui Pedro Lopes
3
;
4
Affiliations:
1
Federal University of Technology, Santa Helena, Paraná, Brazil
;
2
Research Center in Basic Education, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal
;
3
Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro, University of Aveiro, Portugal
;
4
Research Center in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Portfolio, Observation, Interface, Web Development, Early Childhood Education.
Abstract:
In early childhood education, there are several techniques to understand children’s development in kindergarten. One of these techniques is based on Portfolios that, in early childhood education, allows the understanding of the progress of the child, allowing a shared reflection with the child, teachers, and the child’s parents towards the understanding on the child’s learning process. The work described in this paper has as its main objective the development of a web application, which allows support for the construction of a platform for the storage and sharing of digital portfolios for early childhood education. In addition, it is intended that an access control of users be made so that it is possible to manage access to certain portfolios or sub-parts of them. The system has features such as: creating portfolios, creating notes, and managing user permissions. After the application was implemented, usability tests were carried out, with the participation of teachers. Through the t
echniques and methodologies used, it was possible to create a web tool to aid in the creation of portfolios for early childhood education, allowing the registering of audio, video, or image files. In addition, the system allows the sharing of portfolios with different users of the system who, in turn, can perform actions in the portfolio according to their role in the system.
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