Developing an Electronic Portfolio

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Developing an Electronic Portfolio

• Dottie Myatt, Ed.D.
• Education Department Colloquium
• March 17, 2003

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Value of Professional Portfolio

• Value as process and product
• Process is self-evaluation
• Reflection
• Decision-making
• Goal setting
• Product
• Display of individual goals, growth, and
  achievement
• Means of communication
• Source of self-satisfaction and accomplishments

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Electronic portfolios

• Combine use of electronic technologies (various
  media types) to create and publish a portfolio
  that will be read with a computer or viewed with
  a VCR.
• Grant Wiggins (2000)

a representative collection of ones work. As
the words roots suggest (and as is still the
case in the arts), the sample of work is
fashioned for a particular objective and carried
from place to place for inspection or exhibition.
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Research base

• Blaire (2001)
• Kankaanranta (2001)
• Thomas, Lamson, King (2001)
• Cradler and Bridgforth (2002)
• Barrett, Helen (2000)

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Benefits of using electronic portfolios

• Minimal storage space
• Easy to create back-up files
• Portability
• Long shelf life
• Increases technology skills
• Accessibility, especially web portfolios

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Process for construction

• Reflect
• Purpose
• Audience
• Format
• Software tools
• Storage medium
• Collect
• Select
• Present

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Stages of portfoliodevelopment
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Software Options

• Word processing
• Multimedia slideshows (PowerPoint)
• Hypermedia card software (HyperStudio)
• HTML pages
• Video (digital analog)
• Multimedia authoring software (FrontPage)

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Plan your layout