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Electronic Teaching Portfolios
With the San Diego teaching job market more competitive than ever you need to find ways to elevate yourself above others in order to land the perfect job. Creating a unique web-based electronic teaching portfolio is your key to success. Take your web design skills to a new level and start marketing your "virtual" self.
Overview
This course is designed to be practical, interesting, empowering, thought-provoking, and hands-on. Although you probably won't have your electronic portfolio finished by the end of this class, you should have a good idea of what the finished project will look like and you'll be well on your way towards accomplishing your goals.
Audience
This course is intended for K-12 preservice and inservice teachers of all content areas and educational technology graduate students. Familiarity with basic web design and publishing is assumed.
Learning Outcomes
In this course you will learn how to
- explain the different types of portfolios that exist
- define what an electronic teaching portfolio is
- describe the typical components of an electronic teaching portfolio
- critique content and presentation of portfolios
- describe the process for developing a digital teaching portfolio
- design a web-based digital teaching portfolio that incorporates elements of good web design (CARP)
Resources
- Sample electronic portfolios viewed in class
- Blackboard
- Helen Barrett's website offers loads of information about portfolios
- Need help with Dreamweaver?
- Color scheme generator
- Make web-based graphics in a hurry: Cooltext
- Photos: Apple, Flickr, and rules of use (PDF) for educators
- PDFmakers for PC users: PrimoPDF and CutePDF
- Track who's visiting your site with Webstats4U
Course Outline
Session 1: December 3, 2005
- What is a portfolio?
- Looking at different portflios
- The portfolio development process
- Identifying the purpose of your portfolio
- Outlining and envisioning
- Download a webpage template:
- Peyri's template (with built-in stylesheet)
- Helen Barrett's template (standards-based)
- Working with Dreamweaver
- Graphics, buttons, and banners
Week-In-Between
- Read about contrast, alignment, repetition, and proximity on the CARP webpage. In Blackboard, respond to these questions.
- Choose an article from Dr.
Helen Barrett's website that appeals to you. In Blackboard, write
a reflective response that explains what you took away from this article.
Suggestions:
- Electronic Portfolios = Multimedia Development + Portfolio Development
- Electronic Portfolios
- ePortfolio as Digital Story of Deep Learning (11 minutes - requires QuickTime)
- Review the portfolio rubric that will be used during peer review.
- Work on your portfolio. Collect and organize artifacts. Find appropriate graphics, if desired.
Session 2: December 10, 2005
- Incorporating elements of good design (CARP)
- Uploading to eprentice.sdsu.edu
- Work time
- Peer review based on the rubric
- Work time. Incorporate suggestions made during peer review.
- Showcase