The competition for Y2Y Portfolios is predominantly non-designated ePortfolio websites that are either website builders, blog sites or presentation tools and though these can work well for creating ePortfolios, they may require private emails for each student, need to be created by the teacher for each student and are stored on the internet.
They are not standardized by the districts and accessible through a district server, behind their security firewall.
The designated ePortfolio creation sites may require a membership for each student and are not private and secure sites, most require a montly fee per/person.
Competition (non-designated ePortfolio websites)
edu.glogster
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Digital poster creation
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Designed to help post items (images, video, text and audio) to a digital bulletin board, public
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Yearly fee
Google Apps
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By using Googledocs, Blogger and Goggle sites in combination you can create an ePortfolio
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Not a designated Portfolio site
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Need to access different products
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Free
WordPress.com
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Blog service that can be used to create ePortfolios with individual pages
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Supports multi-media
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Can be hard to navigate
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Yearly fee (upgraded site)
Blogger.com
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Blog site that can be adapted to creating ePortfolios, each entry can be another section of your portfolio (hard to maintain)
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Free
Weebly
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Internet service solution for creating web site publishing
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Uses templates to create websites, not designated portfolios
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Basic account is free, fee for more advanced features (video, sound)
Prezi
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Online presentation tool
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Create a path through your artifacts
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Presentation tool
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Difficult for young users
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Supports multi-media
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Free
wix.com
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Internet service for creating a custom web site
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Comparable to Weebly
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Basic account is free, fee for more advanced features
Atavist
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Publishing and storytelling platform
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Linear pages, supports multi-media
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Free
Flavors.me
​Website builder
Competition (designated resume and ePortfolio websites)
Opresume
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Online portfolio and resume website
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Uses drag and drop templates to build personal site
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Basic is free, monthly fee for premium site
PortfolioGen
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Portfolio website builder
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Uses templates for free, more responsive web design in premium
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Supports multi-media
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Free basic subscription, for fee Premium subscription
Carbonmade
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Monthly fee from $6-24/month
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Multi-media, storage
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Large variety of formats, easy to use
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Creative