Create Field Experience Journal

Your field experience journal is where what you learn in your program meets the reality of the classroom. Your field experience journal will be a place where you can record your experiences throughout the program, and be a source for future artifacts of your development as a teacher. The field experience journal will be embedded within the portfolio as a live document that will automatically update with every entry.

  1. Open your Chrome browser.

  2. Log in to Google Drive using your @go.olemiss.edu email address.

  3. Open your "Teacher Education Portfolio” folder by double clicking the label in the list of folders.

  4. Click on “New” button, and select “Google Docs”

  5. Click "CREATE AND SHARE" to give your journal the same sharing settings as the folder.

  6. Click on “Untitled document” at the top of the screen, and rename the document “Field Experience Journal”

  7. Insert a title in the document "FirstName LastName's Field Experience Journal"

  8. Go back to Google Drive and open your Teacher Education Portfolio site.

  9. Select the “Journal” page.

  10. Delete the embedded document and any extra text on the page.

  11. Double click in the blank white space and select “From Drive”.

  12. Select your newly created Field Experience Journal.

  13. Click on “INSERT" to insert the document.

You have just embedded your field experience journal into your Teacher Education Portfolio. As you edit this document (through Google Docs) it will automatically update itself within your portfolio.

As you use your Field Experience Journal be sure to put the most recent entries at the top! This will allow for yourself and visitors to your Teacher Education Portfolio to view your most recent entries first and then scroll down to see earlier entries.