Electronic Portfolio Development

Course Description

This course focuses on the process of developing electronic portfolios to document the achievement of standards-based curriculum.

Specifically, the course focuses on:

Overview of electronic portfolios

Guidelines for assembling electronic portfolios

Organization of electronic portfolios around teaching standards

Advantages of electronic portfolios

Limitations of electronic portfolios

Portfolio artifacts

Reflection

Much of what I do as a teacher and a learner comes naturally. While earning my undergrad I boasted that I rarely took notes. This is unfortunate. If I was a less skilled learner, then I might be a better student. The requirement of a portfolio, dawn of Google tools, and fear of failure has made me a better student. I have managed to save nearly all of my work over the past two years while I have been working on this degree.

Working on this portfolio has refreshed and reconnected some of the learning that had become blurred together in a jumble of overlapping class titles and jargon. It has taken a pile of documents that is only searchable by forgotten file name or sorting by "last modified"and turned it into a cohesive testament to my learning. It is a mind map that I can reference repeatedly, revise infinitely, and share endlessly.