Portfolio Pluses

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Portfolio Pluses

• Collection of materials based on guidelines
• Student Selected
• Variety of Work
• Reflection

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Portfolio Minuses

• Increased Grading
• Storage

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Web-Based Portfolio Pluses

• Storage
• Visibility
• Added Features
• Web Discussion
• Links

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Web-Based Portfolio Minuses

• Technology Issues for the College
• Faculty Buy-In
• Time away from course content

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Design Influences

• NCA Conference Student Academic Achievement/
  Outcomes (97)
• Web Portfolios Kalamazoo (97-99)
• http//www.kzoo.edu/pfolio/index.html
• NCTE Reflection Conference (98)
• Learning Community Conference (98)

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Decision 1 Purpose and Focus

• Demonstrating Skills
• Student Evaluation
• Program Evaluation
• University of Superior at Wisconsin
• http//acad.uwsuper.edu/assess/aahefinal/index.htm
  
• College Evaluation
• Kalamazoo Five Dimensions and Four Skills
• http//www.kzoo.edu/pfolio/manual/required.html
• GateWay CC District/College Outcomes
• http//gwinfo.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/e-portfolio/e
  port.html

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Decision 1 Purpose and Focus

• Making Connections
• Reflection
• Unguided http//www.kzoo.edu/pfolio/manual/resp.h
  tml
• Guided http//gwinfo.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/e-p
  ortfolio/reflecwhat.html
• Advisement/Career Planning (Kalamazoo)
• Web Board Discussion Groups (GateWay)

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Portfolio Evolution

• Reflection (now)
• College Evaluation (in 3 years)
• Student Evaluation for Graduation (?)
• Faculty/Student Roles Changing (3-5 years)

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Transforming vision to reality
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Where do you begin?

• Who do you talk to about this idea?
• What, exactly, do you want?
• What technology is needed?
• Where will students work?
• Whats available for student computer use?
• How much should students know about computers and
  the web?
• Should students have a technology pre-requisite?

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Who do you talk to about this idea?

• Dean of Instruction
• Division Chair
• Someone in Computer Operations
• The Webmaster
• Director of Learning Technology Services

Why
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What do you want?

• Is this a storage space on the server for
  students?
• What does the web have to do with an electronic
  portfolio?
• You want a web-portfolio?
• How is student information moved to the web?

Answers
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What technology is needed?

• Computers
• Computer classroom

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Where will students work?

• Off - campus
• home
• office
• On-campus
• Library
• Learning Center
• Computer lab

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Whats available for student use?

• Access to
• computers
• the student server
• the web server
• E-mail provided by the college
• Internet provider for home use

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What should the student know?

• Computer literate
• configure computer for use
• any word processing program
• MS Word
• save and retrieve documents
• file management
• scan graphics
• digitize audio and/or video

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What should the student know?

• Web literate
• ability to navigate with ease
• use search engines
• how to post document to the web
• saving word processing files as HTML
• HTML programming

What we decided
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Technology pre-requisite?

• Class advertised as technology class
• Student advised of technology piece
• Pre-requisite
• basic computing skills
• word processing with MS Word
• introduction to the WWW
• basic HTML programming
• all of the above

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Summation

• Long Process--
• time
• resources
• people
• equipment
• factors beyond our control

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Summation

• Evolution of Portfolio Purpose
• Demonstrating skills
• Making connections
• Reflections
• College evaluations
• Student evaluation for graduation
• Student/Faculty roles changing in the future

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Summation

• Where do we go from here?
• Software Issues
• Test Group
• Faculty Involvement
• Student Computer Skills/ Web Access