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Code = rpMale. Edmodo Quiz. Julie Stephenson: julie.stephenson@cabarrus.k12.nc.us ya_literature Katie Sparks: kathryn.sparks@cabarrus.k12.nc.us mediasparkles
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Julie Stephenson: julie.stephenson@cabarrus.k12.nc.us ya_literature • Katie Sparks: kathryn.sparks@cabarrus.k12.nc.us mediasparkles • Mission Statement: We hope that this session will provide with new tools that you can take back and implement with your staff. Introductions
Essential Questions • Define ePortfolio • Discuss Options • Compare benefits and challenges Agenda
1. What strategies can best ensure that you will maintain an interest and commitment to the creation and upkeep of an e-portfolio? • 2. Who is the audience? What is the desired result of the interaction with the e-portfolio? Where will the portfolio exist online? • 3.How can the e-portfolio encourage teachers/students to reflect on their learning? Essential Questions:
4. If you don’t use an e-portfolio, what will you use instead? Will it work for you? Will it be relevant in 5 years? • 5. Would there be benefits to your entire school using a single e-portfolio platform? Multiple platforms? • 6. What do you need to do to help administrators understand the value of your e-portfolio? Essential Questions
An e-portfolio is “a digitized collection of artifacts, including demonstrations, resources, and accomplishments that represent an individual, group, or institution” (Lorenzo and Ittelson 2005). Wall and Phillips adds that the e-portfolio is one in “which the person or organization has reflected […] a presentation to one or more audiences for a particular rhetorical purpose” (Dekson and Suresh, 22). Definition
Best options, in our opinion: • Portfoliogen • Digication $ • Pathbrite • Taskstream $ • Epsilen • Edublog • Otherpeoplespixels $ • Weebly • Google Apps/Plus • Schoolwires • Live Binders Options
Behance Prosite $ (for upgrades) • Carbonmade • Wordpress • Blogsy $ The Choice is Yours
Sustainability • Marketing Tool • Sharing and Collaborating • Quick and Easy Maintenance (Once Established) 21st Century Relevance
Today’s options are adaptable • Embedded sites embedded (RSS feed, Social Icons, …) • More interactive than their predecessors. Benefits
Potential cost • Time involvement • Lack of experience with specific platforms (learning curve for both user and administrator) • TF’s may need training to assist with troubleshooting • May not work with other information/technology systems (social media sites, student information systems, etc…) • Technology and Internet Issues (random outage) • Ability to capture/document rare moments or things that cannot typically be captured Challenges
Choose your ePortfolio preferred site • Create a list of your essential questions, standards, or key features for the site (naming tabs, creating sections on ePortfolio) • Upload documents as needed • Make sure to share link with those who might benefit or want to see your portfolio Show Essential Parts (Bones of Portfolio)
Julie’s Choice -Weebly • http://juliestephenson.weebly.com ePortfolio Samples
Katie’s Choice-Google Plus • https://sites.google.com/a/apps.cabarrus.k12.nc.us/sparks-library/ ePortfolio Samples
Teacher A’s Choice-School Wires • http://www.cabarrus.k12.nc.us//site/Default.aspx?PageID=10051 ePortfolio Sample
Teacher B’s Choice: Live Binders • http://www.livebinders.com/shelf/my ePortfolio Sample
Rose-anne Camilleri • http://efolio.edublogs.org/ • Dominic Abbenante • http://dominicabbenante.com/section/348831.html ePortfolio Samples
Read “Terms of Use” for the sites considered • Year-long process (add documents as you go about your year) • Explore the options Final Thoughts
Abbenante, Dominic. Developing an Interactive Digital Online Portfolio. A thesis presented to the faculty of San Diego University. (Spring 2013). • Camilleri, Rose-anne. http://efolio.edublogs.org/ Date accessed 8-26-2013. • Dekson, D.E., and Suresh, E.S.M. Adaptive and Intelligent E-portfolio Architecture for Learning. International Journal of computer Applications. Vol. 2. No. 3, May 2010. • Lorenzo, George and Ittleson, John. An Overview of E-Portfolios, ed. Diana Oblinger. (Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. July 2005), http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3001.pdf • Reese, Michael and Levy, Ron. Assessing the Future: e-portfolio trends, uses, and options in higher education. (Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Research Bulletin. February 2009). Works Cited