1. Development of Electronic Portfolios

2. What is a Portfolio?
Systematic, organized, goal-driven documentation of your work
Monitor growth in knowledge, skills, and dispositions
Exhibit your efforts and progress
Foster reflection on your teaching, professional development, and service
Work in progress - evolves as you grow in your profession
Snapshot of where you are at a particular time

3. Purposes of Portfolios
Accountability
Assessment
Growth/professional development

4. Organization of the Portfolio
Goals
Standards
Professional growth/accountability areas

5. Portfolio Media Paper portfolio Electronic portfolio
Degrades over time
Not very portable
Might be disassembled to use items within your classroom
Electronic portfolio
Easy to organize, access, transport
Documentation is reasonably “permanent”

6. Development Cycle
Based on two bodies of literature: Portfolio development and multimedia development
Development steps:
Collection of Artifacts
Selection of Artifacts
Reflection
Design of the portfolio
Development/Implementation
Evaluation
Cyclical process of injecting and ejecting to update and keep portfolio manageable

7. Collection of Artifacts
Primary activity
Major considerations: Purpose, audience, and future use of artifacts
Include relevant information about artifacts
Sort by portfolio framework areas (major categories)

8. Collection of Artifacts
Don’t leave collection/selection until the last minute
Set up an electronic filing system
Electronic folder
Subfolders for each standard/goal area
Be an electronic pack rat
Save all documents you think might be included in the portfolio

9. Selection of Artifacts
Examine what has been collected
Select key artifacts
Move other artifacts that you collected out of the “portfolio” folder
Criteria for selection should reflect standards/goals around which your portfolio is organized
Show growth/development/ achievement in goal areas
Give consideration to artifacts already included for replacement

10. Reflection What are your experiences? What have you learned?
How have you grown professionally?
How have you met your goals?
How will answers to the questions above guide you in self-assessment and in setting new goals?

11. Reflection Write abbreviated reflections for each artifact
Summarize the artifact that documents the experience
Label the artifact for meaning and value
Discuss why the artifact is included and what it is evidence of
Write an overall reflection for each standard/goal area
How do the artifacts support growth toward meeting the standards/goals?

12. Design of Portfolio Outline for the portfolio Table of contents
Portfolio matrix
Select the media for publication
Design the “look” and layout of the portfolio

13. Development/Implementation
Archive the evidence
Complete the digital conversions
Develop portfolio “pages” from outline and table of contents
Organize portfolio with hypertext links
Complete hypertext linking to evidence
Publish/present the portfolio

14. Evaluation Fine-tune the content Make certain all links “work”
Ask peers to review for ease of use and completeness of content
Use portfolio as basis for meaningful dialogue

15. Technological Considerations
Design and Structure
General “look” of the portfolio
Template versus free style
Personalizing the portfolio
Standards/goals base for the content
Descriptive information for artifacts
Technology needs
What are the technical skills needed?
Where do I learn these skills?

16. Technological Considerations
Software, hardware
Selection (web authoring, PowerPoint, etc.)
Template versus free style design
Computer platform
Digital equipment

17. Technological Considerations
Legal issues
Protection and security
Copyright issues
Storage
Types (server, CD, disk, etc.)
Cost