e-Portfolio

Tech Play 2 Assignment

Instruction: Explore variety of tools to create an e-portfolio. Give some examples, and write a reflection.

1. For this week assignment I find different tools to create eportfolios listed in the tab "e-Portfolio".

2. My reflection on e-Portfolios or “folio thinking” is to incorporate traditional paper presentations, test, school projects or assessment into an electronic interactive replacement. We are living in the electronic era and the students in this generation are called “Gen Net”. They are very comfort using electronic and very savvy. The transfer or replacement in some case of the traditional paper to electronic is just a matter of time.

Goes beyond a classroom presentation or assessment, can open doors for future work. Employees are willing to see beyond a simple curriculum vitae but with the exposition of an e-Portfolio is more reliable to know the real talent of an individual.

What I personal learned about technology is that every day I enriched myself personal and professional. I have been using Google, YouTube, Digital audio, video, pictures, create my own videos, created my own web site and many other things that make me passionate about technology. I had been enriched class projects and professional presentation.

3. Annex

Definition of e-Portfolio:

“Is a Digitized collection of artifacts, including demonstration resources, and accomplishments that represent an individual, group, community organization, or institution. This collection can be comprised of text-based, graphic, or multimedia elements archived on a Web site or on other electronic media such as a CD-ROM or DVD.”

Retrieved from https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli3001.pdf

“An e-portfolio is more than a simple collection, however, it can also administrative tool to manage and organize work created with different applications and control who can see or discuss the work.”

 Retrieved from https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli3001.pdf

In this context, it is a perfect tool to use for students presentations, because they can set who can post for discussion and control who can see their work.

For my project I'm using the Pathbride (https://pathbrite.com/#maker) e-portfolio maker.

My Portfolio will be starting developing with the following criteria: Home, About me, Philosophy,

Informed Decision-Making, Communication Page, Design and Technology.

All these criteria are following the standard guidelines for the pages expecting for this project as follow:

• Home/Overview Page: explaining the purpose of the eportfolio, how it is organized, and how the viewer can navigate to its contents.
• About Me Page: telling the viewer a bit about you, your work experiences, academic achievements, awards and honors, etc. Include relevant artifacts, such as your resume, certificates, diplomas, etc.
• Philosophy Page: Provide a reflection on how you developed your Educational Technology Philosophy on this page and include the drafts of your philosophy as artifacts. You might also provide your teaching philosophy if you have one. 
• Informed Decision-Making Page: Reflect on your skills, abilities, and experiences in making informed decisions regarding teaching and learning, particularly teaching and learning with technology. How do you draw upon your abilities to research and identify best practices in making informed decisions about teaching, learning, and technology. Provide artifacts that demonstrate these skills and abilities.
• Communication Page: Reflect on your skills and abilities to communicate effectively in a variety of ways (written, oral, digital) using a variety of media (text, graphics, illustrations, tables, figures, charts, graphs, audio, video, etc). Provide artifacts that demonstrate these skills and abilities.
• Design & Technology Page: reflect on your skills and abilities in designing instruction using technology. Provide artifacts that demonstrate these skills and abilities.

The current status of my e-Portfolio:

http://msmillerspanishtea.wix.com/rochelleimiller