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Teri Morse Maine Educational Opportunity Center

Integrating Technology into your Advising Strategy: using an Advisor-designed webpage to build college readiness and awareness. Teri Morse Maine Educational Opportunity Center. What do our students need most?.

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Teri Morse Maine Educational Opportunity Center

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  1. Integrating Technology into your Advising Strategy: using an Advisor-designed webpage to build college readiness and awareness Teri Morse Maine Educational Opportunity Center

  2. What do our students need most? • Many capable non-traditional students experience frustration and failure in school, not because they lack ability, but because they do not have adequate information. • Strong organizational skills are important for success in school, to foster feelings of confidence. • Students need to develop positive attitudes, and to realize they can control how well they do in school and in life. • The groundwork for successful work habits for our adult learners is INFORMATION.

  3. Creating a Server Based Bookmarking Utility • A bookmarking utility acts like your favorites or bookmarks menu. It gives you a place to keep references to your favorite websites. • You can access it from any web browser on any computer, anywhere, so when you get a good link while away from home, you can just store it and have it always around.

  4. Create an Environment where students can access multiple sites! • www.portaportal.com • Free • Create an individualized site • Create a combined or share site. • Teach your students to create their own.

  5. Portaportal -- Why? How to use it • Personal use- organize your bookmarks • Program use- • Allows Professional staff to share sites with other professional staff • Allows Professional staff to get the info out to students in an organizes fashion so students can access while preparing for college

  6. Step One Create your own environment • Identify the Topic areas you feel would best suit your student population; • Possibly; • Financial Aid; • Admissions, • Study Skills, • Colleges, • Social Service Agencies, etc

  7. Step Two • Identify the links that are appropriate for the categories • What are the links that you frequent? • Do you refer students to some sites more than others? • Ask for input from other student advocates. • Check out school site!

  8. Step Three • Sign up is very easy! • www.portaportal.com

  9. Step Four • If you are NOT computer savvy get some help - • From a friend • From a colleague • From the web site tutorial

  10. Tutorial Pages Available • This isn’t rocket science • Made for the average computer person

  11. Sample Page • Create categories that are appropriate to your program • Test your links • Ask for feedback! • Change and update

  12. Sharing! And that’s a Good thing • It’s called allowing public access. By default it's off when you create an account. • But you can go into the preferences page and turn it on. • Then you can give out the Guest Access Code

  13. Accessing site Your name You can modify your site Guests have no ability to make changes

  14. Portal Editing Console • Located in the upper right corner of your portaportal window is the Portal Editing console. It is shown here in blue, but the color can vary depending upon the values in your preferences page.

  15. Adding Categories and Links • Sample • Admissions • URLs • Name them • Add Icon Buttons that show great sites!

  16. After adding your info… This is it!

  17. Students can email you from this site.

  18. Privacy • Privacy Statement • We will never give out your email address. • We take it only so that we have a way of reminding you of your password if you lose it. • Your bookmarks will never be linked to your email address • We will never willingly give out the information involving who is bookmarking what page. • Bookmarked pages will never be published. • You can feel free to keep personal pages inside your portal. We will not be publishing compiled lists of sites marked. That having been said you should be aware that the chance to be broken into, while slight, is there. So for bookmarks that are of an important and sensitive manner some caution should be used. • This statement shall be honored • While seemingly superfluous we mean this one. Even in the future if our privacy statement does change users signed up while this statement is in effect will be treated with these rules. We will not change the rules out from under our current members. • From the www.portaportal.com page…

  19. Other Tech options • Free Wiki Space- • http://www.wikispaces.com/ • http://collegeexperience.wikispaces.com/ • http://higher-education.wikispaces.com/

  20. WIKISPACES • GREAT for keeping groups active and sharing photos and ideas! • And to share what is happening for your organization. • Great audio/visual tutorial!

  21. Google even more….

  22. Google even more….. • Offers you access to a lot of supports; • Share documents • Access them from anywhere • Communication • Translation • Software • And even more

  23. Google • You do need to join, its free…and It’s easy…. • Great way to share info with coworkers • Great way for students to upload their college essays for review!

  24. Adding documents • Upload from your desktop • Create new documents online • Change already loaded documents

  25. Teri Morse, MEOC Advisor 5713 Chadbourne Hall, Orono, Maine 04469 Teri.morse@umit.maine.edu 551-3331 cell

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