Electronic Portfolios

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Electronic Portfolios

• Deborah Romaine, Language Arts Teacher, H.H.
  Wells Middle School
• Steven Moskowitz, Director of Information Systems
  and Instructional Technology
• Brewster Central School District

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Electronic Portfolios

• What are they?
• How can they enhance teaching and learning?
• How do schools use them?
• Product review, costs, logistics

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Basic Elements of a Portfolio

• Collection of student work over time
• Samples across disciplines or in one subject area
  in a variety of styles to show student progress
• Reflections on work completed that focus the
  student on his/her own growth
• Often presented in the form of a book or binder

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Sample Student Portfolio
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Elements of an Electronic Portfolio

• Collections of student work, including documents,
  presentations, and any other media in various
  subject areas
• Work organized in categories
• Reflections of work completed
• Digital images to represent each file
• Comment window within each document

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Sample Student Portfolio
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The Three Most Common Types of Portfolios

• The working portfolio, which contains
• projects the student is currently
• working on or has recently completed.
• The display portfolio, which showcases
• samples of the students best work.
• The assessment portfolio, which
• presents work demonstrating that
• the student has met specific learning
• goals and requirements.

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The Process of Portfolio Development
Selection The development of criteria for
choosing items to include in the portfolio based
on established learning objectives. Collection
The gathering of items based on the portfolios
purpose, audience, and future use. Reflection
Statements about the significance of each item
and of the collection as a whole. Direction
A review of the reflections that looks ahead and
sets future goals. Connection The creation
of hypertext links and publications, providing
the opportunity for feedback.

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Electronic Portfolio Benefits

• Showcase digital work
• Digitize work over time, possibly a students
  total time in a district
• Holds considerably more work than paper
  portfolios
• Share work with others via the web
• Includes area to comment by viewers
• Ability to export work to a CD

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Benefits to the Student

• Students can showcase their work
• Students can view others work within the writing
  process
• Students can present work to a larger audience
• Students can refine the writing process and
  become reflective writers

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Benefits to the Teacher

• Assessment over time vs. high stakes testing
• Integrating technology to develop tech skills
• Kids World using the computer increases
  motivation
• Web management provides ease of use

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Electronic Portfolio Software Functions

• Student setup and creation
• Features
• Archiving
• Sharing

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Management

• Site Management
• Teacher Management

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Electronic Portfolio Elements

• Web based program
• Students can work from school or home
• Students can upload documents and files
• Backup is provided

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Electronic Portfolio Elements

• Security
• Management
• Costs
• Training Issues

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Using Electronic Portfolios in Brewster

• Our Journey
• What went right? What did not go so right...
• Technology Issues
• Teacher/Admin Buy-in to Merits
• Where are we now?

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Implementing in the Classroom

• Where does this fit in curriculum?
• Process
• Assignments
• Classroom management

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Where does this fit in the Curriculum?

• Enhances the writing process
• Provides models of student writing in pre-writing
  stage
• Provides a venue for revision
• Provides a place to publish and share

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Process

• Students write their bios at start of school
• Students are taught how to use program on first
  piece
• Each quarter students enter 1-2 pieces
• Finalize portfolio for final exam assessment in
  June

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Process

• Students create writing pieces in genres
  established in the curriculum
• Feedback is provided by teacher
• Students use feedback to revise piece
• Final piece is uploaded to portfolio
• Student then reflects on learning
• Work is published for others to review

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English 8 Portfolio

• Personalize Home page with image and welcome
• Write autobiographical sketch for Bio. page
• Create 8th grade English category page
• Include at least 5 documents from year
• Upload image and write reflection for each
  document

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Classroom Management

• Teacher demonstrates program on Smartboard
• Students use portable lab to create documents and
  upload to portfolio
• Teacher can access passwords
• Teacher can review days work via web

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Sample Portfolios

• Blank Portfolio
• Portfolio in Progress
• End of Year Portfolio

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Sample Projects

• http//www.brewsterschools.org/pp/Students/Default
  .aspx?studentId409
• http//www.brewsterschools.org/pp/Students/Defaul
  t.aspx?studentId4809
• http//www.brewsterschools.org/pp/Students/Defaul
  t.aspx?studentId4414

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Next Steps in Brewster

• Re-introduce product
• Discover new applications for its use
• Potential in research projects
• TBD..

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Electronic Portfolio Products

• Brewster Product - Pupil Pages

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Resources

• Dr. Helen Barretts Electronic Portfolio page
• http//electronicportfolios.org/
• Teacher Tap Electronic Portfolio Page
• http//eduscapes.com/tap/topic82.htm
• Education Word Electronic Portfolio article and
  resources
• http//www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech111.
  shtml
• Mrs. Romaines Electronic Portfolio Rubric
  (Brewster)
• http//www.brewsterschools.org/site/technology/epr
  ubric.pdf
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Thank You!