Online Professional Development Course

Learning Outcomes

• The participant will become familiar with instructional technologies that would be beneficial when creating e-portfolios through course readings.

• The participant will complete an final course resource/artifact , design the components of a e-portfolio they'd like to implement in their classrooms.

Module II Reading

Designing your e-portfolio

The structure of your e-portfolio should be designed to be the product created by the learner of digital artifacts articulating experiences, achievements and learning. When designing the components of your e-portfolio keep in mind you want a collection of artifacts throughout a period of time. Build in constant reflection questions and opportunities for students to write reflective statements that provide commentary about the artifact, as well as information about what they have learned from it. Require students to organize the contents of the portfolio by creating a table of contents, creating a storyboard, and designing grid.

E- portfolio-building resources

· TaskStream

· iLife

· Webshots

· Issuu

· Myebook

· Mixbook

· PikiWiki

· GSuite Tools

· Voicethread

· ExplainEverything

Evaluating your e-portfolio

E-portfolios help students to evaluate what they have learned as well as the process they have used to achieve those results. Building rubrics into your e-portfolio can assess collaborative learning , support self-assessing or student-to-student assessing. Self-reflecting about learning is a necessary skill at every grade level. Being able to clarify explain or demonstrate what students have learned indicates a deep and enduring understanding of topics and ideas.

E-portfolios are an authentic form of collaborative assessment because the portfolio includes both the individual contributions of the student and the final product. This aspect is effective because you can truly assess how much work the individual student did and allow the student to showcase his or her work in light of the larger project.

Tools to evaluate and asses students learning

Examples of these assessments include

· creation of a concept map

· construction of a learning journal

· collection of written responses and self-reflections

· rubrics and self-assessing

· whole-class discussion, an example of discourse that can yield information for instructors

Metacognition & Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) Strategies

Learners must be self-aware and taught to understand their learning process. Metacognition and SRL frameworks stress the need for individuals' to be able to communicate effectively with others and to work well as part of a group or team including respecting the abilities of others and cooperating to achieve common goals.