Session on how to

1. Sandhurst Twilight ICT PD
PD Session 1: Student created digital portfolios in iWeb
Wednesday February 17th, 2010

2. Glenn McMahon
Education Officer:
Curriculum and Learning Technologies

3. What is a digital portfolio?

4. What is a digital portfolio?
• A collection of work samples completed by the
student.

5. What is a digital portfolio?
• A collection of work samples completed by the
student.
• Student learning self evaluations.

6. What is a digital portfolio?
• A collection of work samples completed by the
student.
• Student learning self evaluations.
• Student learning reflections.

7. What is a digital portfolio?
• A collection of work samples completed by the
student.
• Student learning self evaluations.
• Student learning reflections.
• Multimedia evidence of student learning.

8. What is a digital portfolio?
• A collection of work samples completed by the
student.
• Student learning self evaluations.
• Student learning reflections.
• Multimedia evidence of student learning.
• Student centered.

9. What is a digital portfolio?
• A collection of work samples completed by the
student.
• Student learning self evaluations.
• Student learning reflections.
• Multimedia evidence of student learning.
• Student centered.
• Online communication tool between home and
school.

10. What a digital portfolio isn’t?

11. What a digital portfolio isn’t?
• A copy of everything the student does.

12. What a digital portfolio isn’t?
• A copy of everything the student does.
• Scanned pages from workbooks or worksheets.

13. What a digital portfolio isn’t?
• A copy of everything the student does.
• Scanned pages from workbooks or worksheets.
• Just the ‘finished’ project or product.

14. What a digital portfolio isn’t?
• A copy of everything the student does.
• Scanned pages from workbooks or worksheets.
• Just the ‘finished’ project or product.
• Teacher created.

15. What a digital portfolio isn’t?
• A copy of everything the student does.
• Scanned pages from workbooks or worksheets.
• Just the ‘finished’ project or product.
• Teacher created.
• Static - it allows for much more than the normal
‘digital journal or scrapbook’.

16. Relationship with VELS

17. Relationship with VELS
• Content included in a digital portfolio can be from
across the whole curriculum.

18. Relationship with VELS
• Content included in a digital portfolio can be from
across the whole curriculum.
• Specific Standards relate to:
- Personal Learning (from level 3)
- Communication (from level 4)
- Thinking Processes (from level 3)
- ICT (from level 2)

19. More than a ‘scrapbook’.
From ʻSmart Classroomm Bytesʼ - www.education.qld.gov.au/smartclassrooms

20. More than a ‘scrapbook’.
Traditional
Portfolio
From ʻSmart Classroomm Bytesʼ - www.education.qld.gov.au/smartclassrooms

21. More than a ‘scrapbook’.
Digital
Portfolio
Traditional
Portfolio
From ʻSmart Classroomm Bytesʼ - www.education.qld.gov.au/smartclassrooms

22. Why have students create one?

23. Why have students create one?
• It’s student owned and operated.

24. Why have students create one?
• It’s student owned and operated.
• Teacher only provides the tasks, criteria and scaffold
for the structure of the portfolio.

25. Why have students create one?
• It’s student owned and operated.
• Teacher only provides the tasks, criteria and scaffold
for the structure of the portfolio.
• Opportunity to capture learning we often don’t have
effective or formal ways to do so.

26. Why have students create one?
• It’s student owned and operated.
• Teacher only provides the tasks, criteria and scaffold
for the structure of the portfolio.
• Opportunity to capture learning we often don’t have
effective or formal ways to do so.
• Home / school communication tool.

27. Why have students create one?
• It’s student owned and operated.
• Teacher only provides the tasks, criteria and scaffold
for the structure of the portfolio.
• Opportunity to capture learning we often don’t have
effective or formal ways to do so.
• Home / school communication tool.
• Great way to showcase thier learning achievements.

28. What a digital portfolio could include?

29. What a digital portfolio could include?
• A welcome page.

30. What a digital portfolio could include?
• A welcome page.
• An about me page.

31. What a digital portfolio could include?
• A welcome page.
• An about me page.
• Major assessment tasks.

32. What a digital portfolio could include?
• A welcome page.
• An about me page.
• Major assessment tasks.
• Student learning blog/journal, either written or spoken (daily
or weekly)

33. What a digital portfolio could include?
• A welcome page.
• An about me page.
• Major assessment tasks.
• Student learning blog/journal, either written or spoken (daily
or weekly)
• Student goals.

34. What a digital portfolio could include?
• A welcome page.
• An about me page.
• Major assessment tasks.
• Student learning blog/journal, either written or spoken (daily
or weekly)
• Student goals.
• Samples of reading/speaking & listening with student self
evaluations.

35. What a digital portfolio could include?
• A welcome page.
• An about me page.
• Major assessment tasks.
• Student learning blog/journal, either written or spoken (daily
or weekly)
• Student goals.
• Samples of reading/speaking & listening with student self
evaluations.
• Image galleries of learning experiences.

36. What a digital portfolio could include?
• A welcome page.
• An about me page.
• Major assessment tasks.
• Student learning blog/journal, either written or spoken (daily
or weekly)
• Student goals.
• Samples of reading/speaking & listening with student self
evaluations.
• Image galleries of learning experiences.
• Curriculum content areas for student work.

37. A sample page

38. A sample page
Task document pdf

39. A sample page
Task document pdf
Assessment criteria pdf

40. A sample page
Task document pdf
Finished task
Assessment criteria pdf

41. A sample page
Task document pdf
Finished task
Assessment criteria pdf
Student self evaluation

42. Creating a digital portfolio with iWeb

43. Creating a digital portfolio with iWeb
• We are going to create our own digital portfolio example

44. Creating a digital portfolio with iWeb
• We are going to create our own digital portfolio example
• For further help:
- www.apple.com/findouthow/web
- www.apple.com/iLife/tutorials/#iweb

45. Contact details
blog:
sandhurstictnetwork.globalteacher.org.au
twitter:
ceosandhurst = Glenn
delicious:
mackas = Glenn
Skype:
gmac74 = Glenn

46. Upcoming PD Opportunities

47. Upcoming PD Opportunities
• Twilight2PD Sessions - Create an online learning space with wikis
Session - March 10th
Session 3 - April 21st - How do search the web effectively:Tips &
tricks
Session 4 - July 28th - Broadcasting learning via a podcast
Session 5 - August 18th - Collaborative learning via Google tools
Session 6 - October 27th - Screencasting: Creating video tutorials

48. Upcoming PD Opportunities
• Twilight2PD Sessions - Create an online learning space with wikis
Session - March 10th
Session 3 - April 21st - How do search the web effectively:Tips &
tricks
Session 4 - July 28th - Broadcasting learning via a podcast
Session 5 - August 18th - Collaborative learning via Google tools
Session 6 - October 27th - Screencasting: Creating video tutorials
• ICT conferences
Wangaratta - May 5th & 6th
Bendigo - May 19th & 20th

49. Upcoming PD Opportunities
• Twilight2PD Sessions - Create an online learning space with wikis
Session - March 10th
Session 3 - April 21st - How do search the web effectively:Tips &
tricks
Session 4 - July 28th - Broadcasting learning via a podcast
Session 5 - August 18th - Collaborative learning via Google tools
Session 6 - October 27th - Screencasting: Creating video tutorials
• ICT conferences
Wangaratta - May 5th & 6th
Bendigo - May 19th & 20th
• 1:1 Conference Days
Term 3 - August 11th
Term 4 - October 18th

50. Upcoming PD Opportunities
• Twilight2PD Sessions - Create an online learning space with wikis
Session - March 10th
Session 3 - April 21st - How do search the web effectively:Tips &
tricks
Session 4 - July 28th - Broadcasting learning via a podcast
Session 5 - August 18th - Collaborative learning via Google tools
Session 6 - October 27th - Screencasting: Creating video tutorials
• ICT conferences
Wangaratta - May 5th & 6th
Bendigo - May 19th & 20th
• 1:1 Conference Days
Term 3 - August 11th
Term 4 - October 18th
• ICT Study Tour