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Online Portfolios

• Pros and Cons of Different Software, Services and
  Strategies
• Based on my Online Portfolio Adventure, Fall 2004

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My evaluation study of online software, services,
or strategies

• Electronic Portfolio Org (http//electronicportfol
  ios.org/myportfolio/versions.html)
• Under On-line Publications
• To date, recreating my new portfolio using 17
  different software packages, services, or
  strategies

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My advice

• When learning new tools, use familiar tasks
• When learning new tasks, use familiar tools

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What is the State of the Art of e-Portfolio
Development?

• Publishing environments
• Optical media (CD-R, DVD-R)
• WWW
• Authoring environments
• Common Tools
• Customized Systems

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Common Desktop Toolswith hyperlinks

• Office - Word, Excel, Powerpoint
• Hypermedia authoring tools - HyperStudio
• Adobe Acrobat
• HTML Editors - Front Page, Dreamweaver,
  Netscape/Mozilla Composer
• Multimedia AuthoringMacromedia Director Flash,
  Ezedia

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Online Portfolio Tools

• HTML editors plus web server space
• Netscape/Mozilla Composer, Geocities
• Blogging tools - include entry categories
• Movable Type, WordPress, BlogWave Studio
• Online Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Userland Manila, Blackboard CMS
• Open Source Software - Plone (Zope), PHP/MySQL

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Online Portfolio Tools

• Customized Commercial Systems - Higher Ed
• General Hi-Ed nuVentives iWebfolio, ePortaro
• Teacher Ed LiveText, TaskStream, FolioTek,
  McGraw-Hills FolioLive, Chalk Wire
• Customized ePortfolio Tools developed in-house
• Maricopa CC, PLP (Vermont Institutes),
  MNSCU/AveNet, Alverno DDP, Johns Hopkins, IUPUI
  Epsilen, UWashington,,
• Open Source ePortfolio - OSPI (rSmart/UMN),
  others in development

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Online Portfolio Tool Characteristics

• Custom-designed Electronic Portfolio Systems-
  (A) system includes database to align artifacts
  to standards
• Free Server Space
• Open Source Software
• Commercial Software - primary market Higher
  Ed, Teacher Ed, PK-12, Any
• Content Management System (CMS)
• Web Log Software or Online Journals - Blogs
• License agreement with - individual or
  institution
• Hosting - Hosted resides on a centralized
  server Server software installed or data stored
  on own server space
• Cost Storage space available

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Conclusions

• Too early to judge
• Scales applied to each system - Trade-offs -
  Balance
• Creativity
• Ease of Use
• Cost/Storage ROI
• Features
• Flexibility/Customization Allowed
• Integration with Assessment System
• Transfer technology skill development

• They each exhibit trade-offs between the
  flexibility inherent in an HTML-based tool with
  the relative ease-of-use but lack of creativity
  in a system built on a data-base.

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The Process
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Portfolio Processes

• Traditional
• Collecting
• Selecting
• Reflecting
• Directing
• Celebrating

• Technology
• Archiving
• Linking/Thinking
• Storytelling
• Collaborating
• Publishing

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Digital Tools for Reflection

• Blogs and Wikis

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What is a blog?

• Abbreviation for web log which is an online
  journal organized in reverse chronological
  orderthe most recent entry on top
• Emerging into the mainstream in the last 18
  months
• Very popular with adolescent girls
• Free, open source and commercial tools available

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Blogs in EducationWeb logsonline journals

• WebBlog (http//www.weblogg-ed.com/)

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What is a wiki

• Hawaiian term for quick
• A tool for collaborative writing
• Anyone who reads a wiki page can click the EDIT
  button and add or edit text
• Another older technology that is emerging into
  common use.

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Planning Questions

• Planning Worksheet

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Handout

• Page 1

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What is the purpose of the portfolio?

• q Show growth over time
• q Document ongoing learning and professional
  development
• q Assessment achievement of standards or goals
• q Employment (Marketing)
• q Other_______________________________

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Who are the various audiences for the portfolio?

• q Student
• q Parent
• q College
• q Faculty
• q Potential employer

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What kind of technology does the primary audience
have access to?

• VCR
• Floppy Diskette
• Hard Disk Drive
• LAN Server
• CD-R/W
• WWW Server
• DVD Player

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What hardware and software do you have / how
often do you have access?

• Computers (how many)
• RAM
• Storage space
• Connections (USB, firewire)
• CD or DVD recorders
• Digital cameras
• Video cameras

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How often will students have access to technology?

• Daily
• Two or three days a week
• Every week

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How can you leverage the technologies students
own?

• Accessibility from home computers
• Connectivity with cell phones PDAs (digital
  images, reflections)
• What about video storage or streaming?
• Other technologies?

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Competencies
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Student Portfolio Competencies

• Collect evidence of learning
• Select specific evidence the demonstrates a
  particular outcome, goal or standard
• Reflect metacognitively on learning represented
  in evidence, making a case that the artifacts
  constitute evidence of achievement
• Make connections in their learning
• Set goals for future learning

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Faculty Portfolio Competencies

• Model all of student competencies PLUS
• Implement classroom-based assessment FOR learning
  strategies
• Provide specific and detailed feedback to
  learners about their learning
• Support student reflection through modeling and
  research-based practices
• Create an environment that facilitates students'
  deep learning

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Technology skills

• File Management Skills (i.e., naming files,
  organizing in folders, able to move and copy
  files, search and find files on a network folder,
  a hard drive or a CD-ROM)
• Converting artifacts into digital format (i.e.,
  scanning images, recording audio, digitizing
  video, depending on technological background or
  teacher or student)

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Online Tools
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Handout of Technology Decisions

• Page 2

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Storage for Digital Archive or Working Portfolio

• q LAN-based Server
• q WWW-accessible Server
• o Space Allocation ____ MB
• o In-house
• o Out-sourced

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Formats for Digital Artifacts

• q Text (.txt, .htm)
• q MS Office (.doc, .ppt, .xls)
• q Graphics/Images (.gif, .jpg)
• q Sound (.aiff, .wav, ra, .mp3)
• q Video (.mov, .avi, .wmv)
• q Acrobat (.pdf)
• q Inspiration (.ins)
• q eZedia (.zoi)

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Common Tools

• q MS Office
• q Database (Filemaker Pro, Access)
• q NoteTaker
• q Inspiration or Kidspiration
• q eZedia
• q iPhoto
• q iMovie
• q Web Page Editor
• q KidPixAppleWorks

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IT Online Customized System

• In-house development
• Open Source Portfolio Tools
• Commercial System
• TaskStream
• LiveText
• Chalk Wire
• ePortaro
• FolioTek
• McGraw-Hill Folio Live
• iWebFolio by nuventive

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Common tools used for constructing portfolios

• Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Web page Editor and Web Browser
• E-Mail Program, including attaching files
• A simple graphics editor to scan and/or resize
  images
• A simple digital video editing program to add
  digital stories to portfolio

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Formats for Publishing Presentation Portfolio

• CD-ROM
• DVD
• Videotape
• WWW
• Secure WWW Server hosted
• In-house
• Commercial Server

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Archiving

• Format
• Acrobat PDF
• HTML/XML
• Archival formats approved by the Library of
  Congress ASCII Text (web pages) and Acrobat (PDF)

• Medium
• CD-ROM
• DVD
• WWW server

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Pros and Cons of Tools Explored

• Fall 2004

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HTML Editors

• Mozilla Composer
• Dreamweaver
• Front Page

• Pros
• Creativity
• Cons
• lack of support
• Security/Password
• Requires higher skill level
• Cost
• Require Server

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Open Source Tools

• Mozilla Composer
• Plone CMS
• Open Source Portfolio (OSPI)
• WordPress (blog)

• Pros
• free
• Cons
• lack of support
• Security
• Lack of creativity (OSPI)
• Require server

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Free Web Site Builder with Free Web Space

• Geocitieswww.geocities.com
• Tripodtripod.lycos.com

• Pros
• Free
• Some design tools
• Cons
• Lack of support
• Ad supported
• Security/password

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Commercial (Teacher Ed)(all hosted)

• TaskStream
• LiveText
• Chalk Wire
• FolioTek
• FolioLive

• Pros
• Security/Password
• Support
• Database backend
• Tie artifacts to outcomes/ goals or standards
• Cons
• Cost
• Lack of Creativity

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Commercial (Higher Ed)

• Blackboard
• Nuventives iWebFolio
• ePortaro

• Pros
• Security/Password
• Support
• Database backend
• Tie artifacts to outcomes/ goals or standards
• Cons
• Cost
• Lack of Creativity

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Content Management Systems

• Manila
• Plone
• Blackboard

• Pros
• Intuitive Interface
• Control over publishing content
• Security-Password
• Cons
• Cost (except Plone)
• Server required

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Blog Software

• Movable Type
• WordPress

• Pros
• Intuitive Interface
• Focus on reflection
• Popular tool
• Cons
• Server required
• Chronological order

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Home-Grown Customized Systems

• Maricopa CCs MyEport
• Vermont Institutes PLP
• MNSCU (AveNet) eFolio Minnesota
• Snoqualmie SD (MGT)

• Pros
• Created for portfolio purpose
• Tie artifacts to outcomes/ goals or standards
• Cons
• Cost (varies)
• Lack of creativity

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Helen C. Barrett, Ph.D.

• Research Director
• The REFLECT Initiative
• A research project to assess the impact of
  electronic portfolios on student learning,
  motivation and engagement in high schools