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Electronic Portfolios in the Classroom

Electronic Portfolios in the Classroom. Paul Wasko, Assistant Director for e-Learning Services Brenda Lyseng, Faculty Development Coordinator, CTL. The Menu for Today:. What are portfolios and their uses? What do electronic portfolios look like? How can I set up my portfolio?

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Electronic Portfolios in the Classroom

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  1. Electronic Portfolios in the Classroom Paul Wasko, Assistant Director for e-Learning Services Brenda Lyseng, Faculty Development Coordinator, CTL

  2. The Menu for Today: • What are portfolios and their uses? • What do electronic portfolios look like? • How can I set up my portfolio? • How can I benefit from a Professional Portfolio? • How can my students use portfolios? • How can I use portfolios in a course?

  3. Knowledge about yourself is all you need! MnSCU E-folio http://efoliomn.com MnSCU E-folio Help Site http://efoliomn.avenet.net AAHE's Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices for Students, Faculty and Institutionshttp://aahe.ital.utexas.edu/electronicportfolios/TOC.html AAHE's Electronic Portfolios Community of Practicehttp://aahe.ital.utexas.edu/electronicportfolios/cop.html Ingredients and Tools

  4. Step 1: Find out what a portfolio is and how you can use it • A portfolio is a systemic and organized collection of work and assessments that documents a person’s efforts, progress and achievements. • They are used for education, career, and personal goals. • They can be both formative or developmental and summative in nature.

  5. Step 1: Find out what a portfolio is and how you can use it Key feature of a portfolio is reflection.

  6. Uses for faculty: Job hunting Faculty evaluation Legacy project For student use Instructional Step 1: Find out what a portfolio is and how you can use it

  7. Uses for students: Job hunting Program capstone – assessment of skills Program progress Step 1: Find out what a portfolio is and how you can use it

  8. Step 2: Try some samples! Sample Faculty Portfolios • Lynn Andrea Stein's Portfoliohttp://www.ai.mit.edu/people/las/ • Raymond Shaw's Research Summaryhttp://www.phy.mtu.edu/~rashaw/ • Mack Mariani's Teaching Portfoliohttp://student.maxwell.syr.edu/mariani/Teaching%20Portfolio/Default.htm • Linda Baer's E-Foliohttp://lindabaer.efoliomn2.com

  9. Step 2: Try some samples! Sample Student Portfolios • Alverno College's Digital Diagnostic Portfoliohttp://www.alverno.edu/academics/ddp.html • Kalamazoo College Outstanding Portfolioshttp://www.kzoo.edu/pfolio/outstanding.html • MnSCU Sample Student E-Foliohttp://sample19.efoliomn.com • MnSCU Student http://denaefisher.efoliomn.com • Valdosta State University College of Educationhttp://168.18.156.85/coeii/portfolios/Default.asp

  10. Step 3: Test a new tool – Minnesota’s Electronic Portfolio! Paul’s turn!

  11. Step 4: Make a professional portfolio for yourself • Professional portfolio is a comprehensive description of your professional life and achievements • Reflective, purposeful, analytic, and developmental • More than a resume – includes narrative • Use your narrative to summarize and state your claims. These should be supported by evidence.

  12. Items to include in a professional portfolio: professional goals and interests expertise, knowledge, scholarship professional competence college and community service selective personal data Step 4: Make a professional portfolio for yourself

  13. Questions to ask for a teaching portfolio: How do you teach? Why do you teach as you do? How do you know it’s working? Step 4: Make a professional portfolio for yourself

  14. Items to include in a teaching portfolio: Advising/counseling, Classes Syllabi Student work Exams Peer reviews Student evaluations Development activities Awards and recognition Work samples Step 4: Make a professional portfolio for yourself

  15. Step 4: Make a professional portfolio for yourself • What are the possibilities with MnSCU E-folio? • Time to play!

  16. Uses for students: Job hunting Show completion of a field of study Show completion of campus-wide competencies Use as an advising tool during college career Step 5: Student Portfolios

  17. Step 6: For Dessert – Electronic Portfolios for your Course • Portfolios have been used by many within individual courses or for a series of courses. • What tools would be useful for both you and the students? • We would love to hear your ideas!

  18. Step 6: For Dessert – Electronic Portfolios for your Course • Faculty post items for students to review • Students post their work on their website and faculty could post reactions or edit • Students make a portfolio for a course that allows them to reflect on their thinking and their work, show their understanding of key concepts in the course, show the development of a project over time

  19. Guides • Assocation of American Geographers: Professional Portfolioshttp://www.aag.org/Careers/UW/Profportfolios.html • Martin Kimeldorf's Portfolio Library: Planning and Design Guidehttp://www.amby.com/kimeldorf/portfolio/p_mk-08.html • Student Academic Portfolios at Southern Illinois Universityhttp://www.siue.edu/~deder/assess/portf.html • The Teaching Portfolio (Brown University)http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Sheridan_Center/pubs/teacport.html • University of Saskatchewan: Definitions, Links, Bibliographyhttp://library.usask.ca/education/portfolios.html • Warren Sandmann's Portfolios Page (Minnesota State University, Mankato)http://www.mankato.msus.edu/acadaf/Html/AAProgram_Assessment/MOMPortfolios.htm • What Teachers Learn from Student Self-Assessments (Evergreen College)http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/resources/assess/e2johnso.htm

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