With today's technology, it's no longer necessary to maintain the traditional (and oversized!) 3-ring binder for your teaching portfolio. In this presentation (which was presented at PETE&C 2013 by Monica Rysavy and Kim Tohill), we explored various e-portfolio development tools and demonstrated how to create an e-portfolio that showcases evidence of your teaching skills and professional qualifications
Beyond Big Binders: Teaching Portfolios in the Web 2.0 World
1. BEYOND BIG BINDERS:
TEACHING PORTFOLIOS IN THE
WEB 2.0 WORLD
MONICA RYSAVY
KIMBERLY TOHILL
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
PETE&C 2013
2. A BIT OF BACKGROUND...
• 40% of college campuses use some type of e-
portfolio (2011)
• 21st century citizens with 21st century skills need
21st century assessment!
• Porfolios are designed to showcase YOU and YOUR
skills!
3. WHAT IS AN E-PORTFOLIO?
• Combination of professional theory and practical
experience
• Purposeful collection of meaningful data from
teaching activities and related experiences
• Multi-modal
• Artifact of learning that showcases the individual
• Represents an entire process of learning in the form
of a product
4. WHY ARE E-PORTFOLIOS SO
IMPORTANT?
• Identification and documentation of personal skills and
abilities
• Demonstrates more than tests
• Incorporates self-reflection
• Helps to beginning teachers translate theory into
practice
• Helps experienced teachers to self-improve
• Elicits the community as an audience
• Makes visible the process of learning as a product
• Student empowerment!
5. THINGS TO INCLUDE...
Personal Profile Professional Profile
• Brief self-description or • Resume
overview • Curriculum Vitae
• Educational beliefs • Professional References
• Personal teaching
philosophy
• Classroom
management
philosophy
6. PERTINENT
EXPERIENCES
• Courses taken
• Credit-bearing
• Continuing education
• Open courses
• Jobs
• Internships
• Service/volunteer work
• Professional activities and memberships
• Relevant interests
• Relevant life experiences
7. SKILLS
MATRIX
• Communication
• Creativity
• Critical Thinking
• Intercultural Knowledge
• Leadership
• Life Management • Research
• Project Development • Social Responsibility
• Teamwork
• Technology
8. ARTIFACTS AND EXAMPLES
• Documents • Assessments
• writing samples,
research papers, • samples, outcomes,
spreadsheets histograms
• Presentations • Videos
• Images
• Link to personal/
• photographs, artwork,
social bulletin boards professional website
• Observations • Link to professional blog
• Music & sounds and/or microblog
• podcasts, audio clips • Social bookmark lists
9. REFLECTIONS
• Self-reflections of observations
• Notes taken during educational experiences
• Notes taken during relevant personal experiences
• Experiences gained from mentors, peers, and
teachers
11. SUPPORTING TEACHING AND
LEARNING
• Supports self-directed learning and learner
autonomy
• Provides evidence of learning, progress, and growth
• Offers a more complete context for artifacts and
experiences
• Encourages continual personal reflection and
refinement
• Allows for discussion of both strengths and
weaknesses
12. SUPPORTING TEACHING AND
LEARNING
• Makes the process of planning --> teaching -->
reflection --> application explicit
• Converts paper-based work to digital
• Improves technical skills
• Provides a type of on-going professional
development
14. EFOLIO PA
• Is a multimedia electronic • This system was created to
portfolio management address the needs of
system students, career-seekers and
• Helps you create a living employers
showcase of your education, • It integrates educational,
career and personal employment and economic
achievements. development objectives.
• Sponsored by the
Pennsylvania Department of
Labor
15. EFOLIO PA: FEATURES
• Multi-media content • Flexible security for your
repository sites
• Organize your information • Manage site visitors
• Drag and drop build tools • 50MB of Storage Space
• Automatically generated • Support for custom code
pages integration
• Multiple sites for targeted • Easy content changes
audiences
16. EFOLIO PA: COSTS
• All Pennsylvania residents
and students enrolled at
Pennsylvania educational
institutions can use eFolio
Pennsylvania to reach their
career and education goals
• FREE!
17. EFOLIO PA: SAMPLE SITE
• Sample eFolio Website of a
Pennsylvania Job Seeker
http://dennissteigerwalt1.efoliopa.com/employment
18. PORTFOLIOGEN
• Free online service for • Portfoliogen was developed
teachers to create their own by teachers for teachers to
customized portfolio allow you to use todays
webpage technology to create a web
• Registered users receive their based portfolio and display
own URL web address your skills beyond the
allowing them to share their conventional paper-based
credentials with prospective portfolio
employers, principals,
professors and peers
19. PORTFOLIOGEN: FEATURES
• Personal URL for Your • Customize the Design and
Portfolio Webpage Layout of Your Webpage
• Post Information such as • Stay Connected With a
Certifications, Education, Message Center Where
and Work Related Photos Potential Employers Can
• Upload Documents Such as Contact You.
your Resume, Teaching • Stats, See How Many
Philosophy, Lesson Plans, People are Viewing Your
Recommendations, Portfolio Webpage
Evaluations, & Transcripts
• Embed Videos and Flash
into Your Webpage
20. PORTFOLIOGEN: COSTS
• Two Plans are offered: Basic • Support for additional
(Free) or Premium (Paid) document types
• Premium plans cost $14.95 • Add more & larger photos
per year and offer the • Viewer Stats
following additional features: • Add additional external
• No ads links
• Enhanced Web Page • Create a custom portfolio
Designs URL
• Add 5 additional pages to • Premium Support
your portfolio
• Higher Document Upload
Limit (20 vs 2 with free
plan)
• Permits larger document
sizes
21. PORTFOLIOGEN: SAMPLE SITE
Sample teacher
website created
with PortfolioGen
http://www.portfoliogen.com/portfoliogen/
22. RE.VU
• Pronounced “Review”
• A visual resume website
• Enables you to present your
information in the popular
infographic style
23. RE.VU: FEATURES
• Link your re.vu account to appealing way
your LinkedIn account and • Add additional content such
automatically pull in content as portfolio samples or even
of your choice including: upload a copy of your
Education, Work Experience, traditional resume
Certifications, etc…
• Link to social networks of
• re.vu creates graphs and your choice
charts that organize your
information in a visually
24. RE.VU: ADDITIONAL FEATURES & COSTS
• Analytics • Create a QR code that you can
• Learn how many people have add to resume, business card,
visited your profile, how long blog, email signature, etc…
they stayed, and what they • Submit your site to search
looked at engines to increase your ranking
• Promote your site by sharing it
on sites like: • Cost = FREE!
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Linkedin
Students have changed, pedagogy is changing, assessment must change too!
Main difference with traditional portfolios is the inclusion of rich media. The individual can use the portfolio to present himself in relation to ever-changing society and times.
E-portfolios are 100% customizable to each unique person. Demonstrate more than tests such as personal & social responsibility, intercultural competence & knowledge, teamwork, etc.Self-reflection leads to personal growth, professional growth and shows the ability of an individual to construct knowledge.
Comm: video of presentation; creativity - bulletin boards; critical thinking: paper with instructor feedback; intercultural - experiences abroad; research - studies; social responsibility - volunteering, membership in community groups
Both from you and your students
Use universally accessible formats like PDF or RTF when possible. Make the layout attractive but not cluttered and easy to navigate.Watch color combinations as they may appear different on various monitors and mobile devices. Dark background, light text; light background, dark text. Customize what can be seen based on who views your site - tailor to specific visitors like potential employers or visitors
Iterative process; gives insight into the time and place where the artifacts were created. creator must explore their beliefs and assumptions as they choose which work to showcase - what do i want to present to the world?