Digital Portfolios and Online Collaboration

1. Digital Portfolios and Online Collaboration

2. What you already know… • Does your school use portfolios as English assessment? • On a scale of 1-10 (10 being imperative), how important is collaboration in a writing classroom? • In one sentence, explain why • On a scale of 1-10 (10 being cutting-edge knowledgeable), rate your comfort with, knowledge and availability of technology in the classroom. • In one sentence, describe your rating

3. Questions Welcome! • This presentation is about possibilities • Stop me any time with any questions • I’ll do my best to taylor to your needs

4. What are we going to learn? • How to use google documents for collaborative writing • How to use google sites to create an electronic portfolio and add document links • Tips and tricks so you don’t make my same mistakes!

5. Why should I learn this? • Portfolio Research and Standards Connections • Technology Research and Standards Connections • Collaboration Research and Standards Connections

6. Why Portfolios? • Some of the many reasons: • collect and record student work • require reflection as writers and learners • inspire use of the writing process • display revision and improvement • increase student accountability • Electronic Portfolio • Kathleen Yancey says it is, “an archive of work, collected over time, all of which counts for learning, but not all of which counts for assessment” (308).

7. Portfolios Then and Now Researching Electronic Portfolios and Learner Engagement, Barrett

8. Incorporating Technology • Use the tools! • DTQ - an emergent form of literacy • Lynn Kuzmich describes “Document, Technological and Qualitative Literacies” • Websites require a different type of reading and very different comprehension strategies. • Why electronic? • Rogers and Tierney, “recommend dynamic assessment tools, such as electronic portfolios and homepages, which can serve three purposes: as construction zones where plans, resources, an learning pursuits are housed; as a space where products can be archived and critiqued; and as a vehicle for communication among schools, students, and families.” • (Process/content/design/critique: Generative and dynamic evaluation in a digital world)

9. National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) • Prepare your students for their digital future • Description of NETS

10. How about the English standards?

11. Collaboration in the Classroom • CE 1.1.1 Demonstrate flexibility in using independent and collaborative strategies for planning, drafting, revising, and editing complex texts. • CE 1.1.5 Revise drafts to more fully and/or precisely convey meaning—drawing on response from others, self-reflection, and reading one’s own work with the eye of a reader; then refine the text— deleting and/or reorganizing ideas, and addressing potential readers’ questions. • CE 1.3.7 Participate collaboratively and productively in groups (e.g., response groups, work teams, discussion groups, and committees)—fulfilling roles and responsibilities, posing relevant questions, giving and following instructions, acknowledging and building on ideas and contributions of others to answer questions or to solve problems, and offering dissent courteously. • CE 2.3.7 Participate as an active member of a reading, listening, and viewing community

12. We’ve learned why, now what? • Overview of Google Docs • How to use, organization, naming conventions • Intro to Google Docs Video • Collaborative Writing • Collaborate or view? • Using color and revision history • Sharing and Publishing Video • Creating Your Own Site! • Linking Documents

13. Writing Using Google Docs • Open a new google document • Click on “Untitled” and rename your document using the following convention: • FirstNameLastInitial_AssignmentName • KristalJ_Practice

14. Writing Using Google Docs • For the duration of the song, respond to one of the following sentence stems. • Focus on detail and organization. • Choose from: • If you really knew me, you would know that… • If I could change one thing in my past it would be… • In 10 years, I hope to… • Create your own stem and write from that

15. Sharing and Collaborating • Sharing and Publishing Intro Video • Write your email on a piece of paper • Share your document with the email address you received • At Docs Home, refresh and locate the document shared with you • Open, read and comment • Compliment sandwich • Write 1 compliment, 1 suggestion for improvement and 1 compliment

16. Google Sites Locate the Google Tools toolbar at the top • You cannot be “IN” a document and get to sites • Click on "Sites" and create your own professional Google Site • Use firstname lastinitial at least to name your site • No nicknames or slang • Share your site (for students) • Click on "Site Settings" next to your gmail address in the upper right hand corner • Share with your teacher’s email • Share the site as "viewers"

17. Linking a Document • Today, we will walk through this process together - Linking Video • You may also refer to the Google Quick Create Checklist for instructions • A few hints - • Students will often copy and paste instead of publishing - remind them of this process • Always click “Automatically Republish”

18. Debrief • What questions have arisen today? • How might you incorporate this knowledge into your own classroom?