Creating a Professional ePortfolio to Enhance Technology Skills

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Creating a Professional e-Portfolio to Enhance
Technology Skills

• Kathy Schutzman, M.Ed.
• Pre-Student Teaching Instructor
• e-Portfolio Cohort Leader
• Wayne State University

Mary Waker, Ed.D. Director, Education Technology
Center, College of Education Wayne State
University
MACUL ConferenceMarch 11, 2004
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What is an e-Portfolio?

• An e-portfolio is an extended, dynamic document,
  establishing links to an online database, which
  contains personal and professional achievements,
  team results, references and all relevant
  evidence of competence obtained in the course of
  work and learning. It provides an opportunity to
  reflect on ones own professional practice and to
  share the lessons learned with others.

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e-Portfolio Constructs

• An e-portfolio uses technology as the container
  to organize artifacts of many media types.
• Reflection or narrative that accompanies the
  artifacts transforms the artifacts into evidence
  of achievement.
• Your portfolio is a purposeful collection of your
  work that exhibits efforts, progress and
  achievements over time.
• Purposeful collection of your best practices

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Purpose of an e-Portfolio

• Professional development
• Enhance technology skills
• Develop toolkit of teacher-constructed materials
• Catalog resources
• Document professional growth
• Credits/CEU/presentations/committee chairs, etc.
• Tool for collaboration

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e-Portfolio Rationale

• Provides a flexible format for organizing and
  highlighting best practices
• Allows for hyperlinking and using artifacts to
  document best practices
• Demonstrates technology skills in context
• Allows for creative individuality and easy
  updating
• Convenient to share

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Benefits

• Meaningful way for teachers and students to meet
  state technology standards
• Enhances ability to digitally organize
• Living document (dynamic)
• Become a more confident technology user
• In todays current job market

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Digital Tools
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Electronic Authoring Options
Dreamweaver FrontPage GoLive Netscape Composer
Online Subscription Service (e.g. LiveText)
Word PowerPoint Hyper Studio Acrobat
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Getting Started Electronically

• Personal commitment to enhance your technology
  skills
• Personal technology assessment
• A digital collection of artifacts which increases
  with classroom experiences
• An e-portfolio authoring tool
• Organizational plan or storyboard
• Knowledge of available resources
• Hardware, software, media support, potential
  collaborators

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Suggestions for e-Portfolios

• Collaborative class e-portfolio
• Demonstration of growth
• Unit of study, academic year
• Sharing with parents
• Team/grade level e-portfolio
• Best practices with peers
• Classroom resources for learning activities
• Individual student project-based e-portfolios
• In-service for MCOATT e-portfolio

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Creating digital artifacts

• Common software
• Microsoft Office products (e.g. Word, PowerPoint)
• Emphasis on visual and multimedia
• Digital pictures, interactive projects, etc.
• Addressing multiple intelligences
• Different ways to assess

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Assessment

• To meet district content standards benchmarks
• To document your students growth over time
• Sharing with district and/or parents
• To document professional growth
• To meet revised state technology standards
• MCOATT for in-service teachers

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Electronic Documentation Ideas
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PowerPoint

• Interactive learning activities
• Class collaboration books
• Authoring option like Choose Your Own Adventure
  stories

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Documenting with PowerPoint

• Student projects

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Interactive PowerPoint

• Freddy Factor
• Murder at the Grand Hotel

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Inspiration

• Unit plan with hyperlinks to lesson plans
• Technology action plans (over time)
• Classroom layout
• Concept mapping
• Pre-writing activities

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Documenting with Inspiration
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Inspiration
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Microsoft Word

• Community map
• Unit resources list with hyperlinks to online
  resources for teacher and students
• Electronic flyers, brochures, posters
• Newsletters

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Documenting with Word
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Documenting with Word
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Digital Images Video

• Document a field trip or class project
• Share a multicultural experience
• Share student feedback and self assessment
• Document best practices

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Documenting Digital Images/Video

• Student projects

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Documenting Digital Images/Video

• Repurposing digital artifacts

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Documenting Digital Images/Video

• Best practices

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Potential e-Portfolio Outcomes

• Progress in personal technology skills
• Ability to integrate technology in the classroom
• More positive attitude toward technology
• Increased ability to work collaboratively with
  fellow professionals
• Better prepared to meet state and national
  technology standards

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e-Portfolio Examples

• Pre-service teacher portfolio
• LiveText
• MCOATT

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Questions?
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Thank you!