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The concept of the personal
development collection (PDC) comes from the Rutland Region Education Alliance's Capstone
Initiative. This organization has been promoting the four Capstone Components (Personal
Development Collections, Personal Performance Projects, Community-Service Learning, and
Work-Based Learning) as models for organzing student-centered classrooms since 1997. At
annual events such as the Capstone Institute and the Capstone Demonstration Day, educators
from diverse situations, including all grades and all subjects contribute to the emerging
theory and practice of Capstone. Personal Development Collections can be thought of as portfolios, but the Capstone Leadership Team decided to use another term to avoid confstion which Vermont's Portfolio Assessment Program, which has negative associations for the region's students. Since 1999, much of the Capstone work investigating the practice of PDC's has focused on using technology to create PDC's. Locally known as ePDC's (electronic personal devleopment collections), the practice has become increasingly popular in the region's schools, and has been the focus of several presentations at educational conferences in New England. Here, you will find information about the five tasks necessary for creating electronic personal devleopment collections.
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