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Northwestern University . The School of Education & Social Policy

Northwestern University . The School of Education & Social Policy. Accreditation and Accountability: Digital Portfolios, Virtual Showrooms and a CMS. Mark Swindle Director, Web Communications James Webb Director, Information Technology. ©2007 Northwestern University.

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Northwestern University . The School of Education & Social Policy

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  1. Northwestern University . The School of Education & Social Policy Accreditation and Accountability: Digital Portfolios, Virtual Showrooms and a CMS Mark Swindle Director, Web Communications James Webb Director, Information Technology ©2007 Northwestern University

  2. Step 1 Tackling content management Need: How to efficiently manage complex web sites? Solution: Content management system (CMS)

  3. Step 1 Need:How to efficiently manage complex web sites? Solution:Content management system (CMS) Issue: Off-the-shelf or build our own? • Northwestern’s experience • with an off-the-shelf product • Northwestern’s Computer • Science Department

  4. Step 1 Need:How to efficiently manage complex web sites? Solution:Content management system (CMS) Issue: Off-the-shelf or build our own? • Northwestern’s experience • with an off-the-shelf product • Northwestern’s Computer • Science Department • SESP’s small size

  5. Step 1 Underlying (Free) Architecture “LAMP” or Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP/Perl

  6. Step 1 CMS Architecture $$ Underlying (Free) Architecture “LAMP” or Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP/Perl

  7. Step 1 Alumni

  8. Step 1 Editor

  9. Step 2 Problem-solving with our CMS A robust CMS makes it possible to create web sites both media rich…

  10. Step 2 A robust CMS makes it possible to create web sites both media-rich… and interactive

  11. Step 2 Creating custom tools for our community of users 2004200520062007 Digital Portfolio

  12. Step 2 Creating custom tools for our community of users 2004200520062007 Profile Engine

  13. Step 2 Creating custom tools for our community of users 2004200520062007 News Center

  14. Step 2 Creating custom tools for our community of users 2004200520062007 Virtual Showroom

  15. Step 2 Creating custom tools for our community of users 2004200520062007 Faculty Annual Report

  16. Step 2 Creating custom tools for our community of users 2004200520062007 Faculty Research Support

  17. Step 2 Creating custom tools for our community of users 2004200520062007 Digital Portfolio 2

  18. Step 2 Creating custom tools for our community of users 2004200520062007 Alumni Services

  19. Step 3 Accreditation and Accountability Need: How could we answer the needs of our teacher certification program for portfolios and accreditation? Solution: We built a Digital Portfolio based on NCATE standards. We built a Virtual Showroom - also based on NCATE standards. Because they were built on the same framework, we could tie the two together – and connect both with other features in the CMS.

  20. Step 3 Teacher Certification Program Students from 4 of the schools at Northwestern create a portfolio. 2004200520062007

  21. Step 3 Their portfolio is based on a Conceptual Framework…

  22. Step 3 …derived from NCATE Standards

  23. Step 3 Artifacts/Reflections are mapped to Checkpoints, and to Principles. Final Checkpoint  Certification CP2 Final Cert. CP1 Principle 1.1 Reviewer Candidate

  24. Step 3 Portfolio Candidates Artifacts/Reflections upload, text entry, Notifications to Reviewers.

  25. Step 3 Portfolio Reviewer

  26. Step 3 Certification  Publish to Profile Page

  27. Step 3 Virtual Showroom 2004200520062007

  28. Step 3 Uploading…

  29. Step 3 View documents…

  30. Step 3 …and Digital Portfolio Artifacts

  31. Step 3 Reporting Engine

  32. Step 3 Next?

  33. Northwestern University . The School of Education & Social Policy www.sesp.northwestern.edu/hlc James Webb (847) 467.3833 Mark Swindle (847) 467.2939 William Siegrist (847) 467.2939 ©2007 Northwestern University

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