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Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004

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Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004

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  1. This presentation will include an overview of using electronic portfolios as a means of alternative assessment by education students in their course work, culminating/final departmental projects, and job searches.Construction of electronic portfolios by using the Microsoft’s Word, PowerPoint, and FrontPage, and Netscape’s Composer, will be illustrated. This PowerPoint presentation can be accessed on-line at http://www4.desales.edu/~rsl2/cybertools/4August2004.ppt

  2. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 Presentation Outline I. Definition II. Why Construct an Electronic Portfolio? III. Research on Portfolio Assessment A. Student Portfolios: Classroom Uses B. Teaching Portfolios in (University) Faculty Development IV. Things to Consider V. Common Software Programs A. Microsoft FrontPage B. Microsoft Word C. Netscape Composer D. Microsoft PowerPoint VI. Conclusion

  3. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 • Definition1 • An electronic portfolio may be defined by the following characteristics: • Collection of author’s work over a period of time; • Authentic performance-based assessment tool; • Used for evaluation by demonstrating how and what the author is learning or has achieved; and • Construction is based on technology.

  4. Why Construct an Electronic Portfolio? • ADVANTAGES • Compact • Easy to reproduce • Alternate Assessment • Makes you look smarter than your colleagues • All that glitters is gold!; and • Sets you apart from your colleagues

  5. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 • Why Construct an Electronic Portfolio? • DISADVANTAGES • Will the format(s) still be here in 1,000 years? (My M.Ed. paper on C-64) • Does the end user understand technology? (HFC story) • Does the end user operate in the same format? (PC v. Mac) • Some people still prefer to hold documents in their hands • Too much flash, not enough substance • Sets you apart from your colleagues – how does the boss assess if everyone else does theirs the old-fashioned way? Or, we fear change…!

  6. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 • Research on Portfolio Assessment (Student Portfolios)2 • WHAT IS IT? • Collections of student work representing a selection of performance. • Derived from the visual and performing arts tradition in which they serve to showcase accomplishments and personally favored works.

  7. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 • Research on Portfolio Assessment (Student Portfolios) • WHY TRY IT? • Students have been stuffing assignments in notebooks and folders for years. • Capitalize on students' natural tendency to save work and become an effective way to get them to take a second look and think about how they could improve future work.

  8. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 • Research on Portfolio Assessment (Student Portfolios) • HOW DOES IT WORK? • Students are expected to collect, select, and reflect. • In building a portfolio of selected pieces and explaining the basis for their choices, students generate criteria for good work, with teacher and peer input. • Students need specifics with clear guidelines and examples to get started on their work, so these discussions need to be well guided and structured. The earlier the discussions begin, the better.

  9. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 • Research on Portfolio Assessment (Student Portfolios) • WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH SAY? • Portfolios can provide structure for involving students in developing and understanding criteria for good efforts, in coming to see the criteria as their own, and in applying the criteria to their own and other students' work. • Students benefit from an awareness of the processes and strategies involved in writing, solving a problem, researching a topic, analyzing information, or describing their own observations. • Portfolios can serve as a vehicle for enhancing student awareness of these strategies for thinking about and producing work--both inside and beyond the classroom.

  10. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 • Research on Portfolio Assessment (Student Portfolios) • WHAT ARE THE DRAWBACKS? • Portfolios place additional demands on teachers and students as well as on school resources. • Teachers need not only a thorough understanding of their subject area and instructional skills, but also additional time for planning, conferring with other teachers, developing strategies and materials, meeting with individual students and small groups, and reviewing and commenting on student work. • Teachers may need extra space in their classrooms to store students' portfolios or expensive equipment such as video cameras.

  11. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 Research on Portfolio Assessment (Student Portfolios) SHOW STUDENT PORTFOLIO EXAMPLE FROM ED305-INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY INTO ELEMENTARY & EARLY CHILDHOOD CLASSROOMS For culminating/final departmental projects and job searches HAND-IN-HAND FOR US AFTER STUDENT TEACHING – THE PORTFOLIO IS TO BE TAKEN TO THE JOB INTERVIEW

  12. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 • Research on Portfolio Assessment • (Teaching Portfolios & Faculty Development)3 • ITEMS FOR A PROFESSOR’S TEACHING PORTFOLIO • List of courses taught • Grading standards • Thoughts on the goals of each course • Description of students taught • Reasons students had for taking the course • Student learning styles • Examples of assignments and exams • List of teaching strategies; and • Ways to assess student learning

  13. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 • Research on Portfolio Assessment • (Teaching Portfolios & Faculty Development) • ASSESSMENT • Student and peer evaluations • Notes or comments from former students • Reports from the employers of graduates • Representative, graded papers; and • Scores on standardized tests

  14. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 Research on Portfolio Assessment (Teaching Portfolios & Faculty Development) Gathering all this data isn't sufficient in itself. "For the data to affect teaching," Murray notes, "one needs to reflect on what the data reveal about his or her teaching." The portfolio might include a record of changes in teaching style or approach resulting from self-reflection or a description of new teaching methods, or faculty development activities you took part in. John P. Murray, author of Successful Faculty Development and Evaluation: The Complete Teaching Portfolio, ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 8.

  15. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 • Things to Consider • Directions Page (click here for RSL’s portfolio instructions page) • Links where to get the free “player” downloads • Adobe (site: http://www.adobe.com) • (free reader: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html) • PowerPoint (site: http://www.microsoft.com) • (free viewer: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en) • RealOne (site: http://www.real.com) • (free player: http://forms.real.com/netzip/getrde601.html?h=software-dl.real.com&r=037e456ef55232c6b400&f=windows/RealPlayer10GOLD.exe&p=RealOne+Player&oem=dl_rp10_2&tagtype=ie&type=dl_rp10_2)

  16. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 Common Software Programs Microsoft FrontPage (purchase trial software at http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/trial.mspxat no cost for the product, $7.95 shipping) Microsoft Word (purchase at any computer store) Microsoft PowerPoint (purchase at any computer store) Netscape Browser (download for free at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp)

  17. Using Common Software Programs in Electronic Portfolio Construction CyberTools Symposium 2004 References 1. Definition of Electronic Portfolio may be attributed to the author of the following website: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec596r/students/Abrenica/Abrenica.html 2. Information in the section titled Research on Portfolio Assessment (Student Portfolios) may be attributed to the Office of Research, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education. “Student Portfolios: Classroom Uses” at www.ed.gov/pubs/OR/ConsumerGuides/classuse.html. 3. Information in the section titled Research on Portfolio Assessment (Teaching Portfolios & Faculty Development) may be attributed to “Thriving in Academe: What About Teaching Portfolios and Faculty Development?” from the June 1997 issue of The NEA Higher Education Advocate at http://www.nea.org/he/head9697/advo9706/thriving.html.

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