Description: A professional portfolio is a requirement for faculty in higher education. A traditional academic portfolio is a three-ring binder filled with reams and reams of paper. Often the organization of the portfolio does not highlight the strengths of the faculty member.
The presenter will share the process he used to convert his traditional portfolio into an electronic portfolio that is organized, easy to maintain, disseminate, and allows review committees to easily locate promotion criteria. He will also discuss his experiences serving on several Associate Professor (F4) and Professor (F5) promotion committees. This presentation will not present the “one size fits all” solution to the academic portfolio, but is intended to spark interest and discussion regarding the use of electronic academic portfolios tailored to the Ivy Tech faculty promotion system.
Presented:
- January 4th, 2012 to the Faculty of Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis Campus, Room NMC519
Outline:
- Introduction
- About me-Instructor (F2)→Instructional Technologist→Program Chair→Dean
- My promotion experiences from Instructor to Professor
- My promotion committee Chair experiences
- My F4-F5 portfolio (only available for two weeks after a presentation) from 2005
- .html files
- .pdf files
- Video
- Images
- I believe I am the first to use an electronic portfolio in the Ivy Tech system
- Audience experiences
- The academic portfolio discussion
- Sell yourself!
- Present a career progression that shows academic growth
- Make it easy for your committee to locate your information
- You CANNOT create a portfolio in a day, a week or a month!
- Ivy Tech Academic Policies and Procedures Manual 3.11
- Faculty promotion policy
- Guide for your portfolio organization
- Why an electronic portfolio?
- Easy distribution
- Easy to maintain
- Easy to share
- Dynamic, rather than static
- A few examples
- CD version (benefits/negatives) discussion
- Web version (benefits/negatives) discussion
- Consolidating and Converting documents
- Creating the CD version (HTML Editor and PDF files)
- Creation
- HTML (If you don't know what the means, skip it!
- Dreamweaver-Pricey, but those who know how to use it, swear by it
- Kompozer-Free and available for almost all
- Dropbox-use to store and share your web electronic portfolio
- Free 2Gb account; however, create an account with a .edu address and double your space!
- Organize the Dropbox space by promotion criteria
- Drop items into those folders as you receive them
- Create an index.html file that links to supporting documentation
- WYSIWYG
- Microsoft Word-LIMITED .html capabilities but has document linking capabilities (keep all documents in the same folder)
- PDF Portfolio-Use Adobe Acrobat 9 to create and assemble
- Online
- Additional training
- This session cannot teach all the technologies required to assemble an electronic portfolio
- Contact your instructional design center for specific training
- Pick a system that is easy to understand and will not cause frustration!
- Questions and further discussion