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FYePortfolios

FYePortfolios. John Jay FYE Peer Leader Training April 19, 2011 Jessica Wells Cantiello. Why ePortfolios ?. Portfolios. Collection of “stuff” (documents, art, etc.) COLLECT Carefully selected and arranged SELECT Useful for thinking about one’s experiences REFLECT

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FYePortfolios

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  1. FYePortfolios John Jay FYE Peer Leader Training April 19, 2011 Jessica Wells Cantiello

  2. Why ePortfolios?

  3. Portfolios • Collection of “stuff” (documents, art, etc.) • COLLECT • Carefully selected and arranged • SELECT • Useful for thinking about one’s experiences • REFLECT • Demonstrates growth and development over time

  4. Types of Portfolios

  5. Benefits of Academic Portfolios • Improve writing skills • Track learning longitudinally and horizontally • Prepare for professional opportunities • Reflect on long-term goals and progress • Extend learning beyond academic deadlines, end of course • Make connections between different courses and course work and out of class activities • Develop better modes of self-expression

  6. Why electronic? • Develop authentic, useful technological skills by using popular, open source platform (wordpress.com) • Digital archive is accessible anywhere, anytime, to anyone the author wants • Wider, more diverse audience (professors, other students, peer leaders, family and friends) • Accessible to prospective employers • Easily revisable • Found to increase student engagement

  7. FYePortfolios@ John Jay

  8. The model • FYS students will be provided with prompts and some required pieces to place in their portfolios • Certain professors might add to these required components • Students may decide to use their ePortfolios for other, non-required selection and reflection • Students will hopefully continue to add to and use these ePortfolios after their first semester

  9. Peer Mentor ePortfolios Models for FYS students Good for you, too You will become adept at using wordpress very quickly. Your ePortfolio should be an authentic space where you craft a useful site for future academic and professional opportunities. Reflection might open up new pathways/ideas for your development. You will have a built-in archive of key documents for future reference. • Your ePortfolio should be a model of what an ePortfolio can evolve into after the first semester. • You should update regularly, use standard English and consider your audience. • Each document you upload should be accompanied by a reflection. • Utilize and experiment with wordpress features to encourage students to do the same.

  10. Peer Mentor Responsibilities • Serve as peer audience for FYS students • Connect students with other students or appropriate support services • Craft posts/correspondence to address major needs • Support FYS Faculty • Direct professors to exemplary or problematic posts • Alert professors to student confusion • Support faculty with technical questions • Create, upkeep your own ePortfolio, which will include: • Information about you • Key documents from your college experience with reflection • Blog posts about your previous and current experiences, directed at audience of first year students • Provide technological support • Monitor the ePortfolios and address common problems/concerns • Train students on how to use wordpress as an ePortfolio

  11. ePorfolio examples

  12. John Jay Balancing Act Guest Speaker: MaryBethApriceno

  13. Professional ePortfolios from NYCCT Aurea Suarez, Law and Paralegal Studies Elliot Reed, Advertising Design and Graphic Arts

  14. Campus Leader at Clemson University Jonathan Beeco, Orientation Ambassador

  15. ePortfolios from LaGuardia CC Raymond Martinez, currently at John Jay Tatjana Sevilla

  16. Targeted ePortfolio http://jbloggers.wordpress.com/

  17. Setting Up Your ePortfolio

  18. ePortfolio components • Visual/Aesthetic • Choosing the right theme • Customizable Header • Image Widgets • Posts • Blog component of the ePortfolio • Dated, most recent first • Interactive • Pages • Static • Welcome (home page), About Me, Campus Involvement • Informative • Widgets • Links • Subscription • Tags/Categories

  19. Next Steps: Possible Pages and Posts Collaborative brainstorming session

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