STARTING TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER
Wow! Can you believe you have already made it to
tutorial three? Hopefully it wasn’t as
hard as you thought it might be. You are
now ready to move on to the next phase of portfolio development. In this tutorial you will place the artifacts
you have created and registered during this course, under their appropriate new
teacher standard in your portfolio. We
will also cover the most important part of your portfolio, the written section
that accompanies each of your artifacts.
Let’s
start with a PowerPoint presentation that discusses what artifacts go where in
your portfolio. Click on the underlined
text (hyperlink) to the right. Standards You
should now be in a PowerPoint presentation.
Click next at the bottom of the screen to learn about which artifacts
can go with which standard. You can
click on the following hyperlink to learn more about what each standard means: http://www.usd.edu/ed/ncate/INTASCStandards.html.
Once
you have decided which artifacts you want under which standard, you are ready
to actually start moving them. To help
make it easier, ePortfolio now offers a way to organize the artifacts you have
previously uploaded. You do not have to complete this step, but
it will be useful when you have several artifacts in your portfolio.
Let’s
begin by logging in to your portfolio. The
first step in working with ePortfolio is to get to their site. You can either type in the address below, or
just click on it. http://dagwood.dgrc.crc.ca/eportfolio/suulogin.html Ok, you should be seeing a screen that looks
like this:
In the user ID field, type in the user ID that you selected
when you registered for your account. It
is generally the same ID that you log into the SUU computers with. In the Password field, you will type in the
password that you selected when you registered for your account. It is generally your birthday in a mm/dd/yy format. For example, I would type in 062503 if I was
born
You should now see a page
that looks like this:
Just below your artifacts is
a button that says: “Create Folder”. To
the left of that button is a box. Type a
name for the folder in the box to the left of the button. I suggest that you create ten folders (one
for each standard) and name them with the standard name. So for folder one, I would name it “Discipline
Knowledge” and then click on the “Create Folder” button. Your screen should now show a new folder
named discipline knowledge and your artifacts should have a move button next to
them. Like this:
Click on the move button to
the right of one of the artifacts you want to place in the discipline knowledge
folder. You will now see a screen like
this:
The first line shows the
artifact you have selected to move, the second line shows the current location
of the artifact, which is the top level (outside of any folders) The next line,
destination, is where you want the artifact to be moved to. Select the downward facing arrow to the right
of that line (the downward facing arrow is a carrot) and you should see
discipline knowledge. I have already
selected it. Click the return
button. You will be returned to the artifact
screen and your artifact will now be in the discipline knowledge folder. You can click on the folder to see that the
artifact is there.
Once again, this step is not required, but it will make it easier to find your artifacts
when you have several in the portfolio.
Now, we will start to actually add the artifacts to the
portfolio. At the very bottom of the
artifact page is a button labeled “return”, click on it and you will be taken
back to the main screen. Click the edit
button next to the portfolio you want to start placing artifacts into. You will be brought to a screen that looks
something like this:
Remember that your screen
might look different based on the theme (layout) you have previously chosen. Click on the words “Discipline Knowledge”. This will take you to a page that looks somewhat
like this:
Just below the words
discipline knowledge is the word “Add”.
Click in the box to the right of this word and type a title. For example, if I was adding my grades as an
artifact under discipline knowledge, I would type something like: “My Grades”. Notice, I used a space. It is ok to use a space here. Click on some blank space on the screen and
your screen will refresh (flash). This
means your changes have been saved. Your
screen will now look like this:
Notice that I now have a new “Add”
button and next to the words “My Grades” the underlined word “Edit” has
appeared. Click on the word “Edit”, it
is a hyperlink. It will take you to a
new page that looks something like this:
Below the words “My Grades” you will find a box with a carrot
(downward arrow) in it. Click on the
arrow and you will see a list of your artifacts. It will look something like this:
Scroll (move up and down)
through the list until you find the artifact you want to use in this section
and click on it. The screen will refresh
and you will now see your artifact. It
will appear like this:
You can click on the
hyperlink and the artifact will open in a new window. Continue this process with each standard
until you have placed all of your artifacts into your portfolio.
You are now ready to move on to the most important part of
your portfolio, the written reflection section.
You will write the reflection in the screen that looks like this:
This is the same screen that you chose your artifact
on. There are four main sections that we
will need to look at. First is the
creation date. It is simply the date you
created your artifact. This box is optional. To enter information into these boxes you
click in the box and type. Once you have
finished, you click on a blank portion of the screen and the window refreshes
and saves your information. You can then
click in the next box and type there.
The other three boxes are required, and are the MOST IMPORTANT PART of your
portfolio. They are where you prove your
artifact demonstrates your competency of the particular INTASC standard you are
working with.
So what are the three boxes labeled: “context”, “roll”, and
“importance” all about? More
importantly, what do I put in them?
Click on the following PowerPoint hyperlink to find out: Writing. You
simply answer the question for each section that is asked in the
presentation. Remember to use the
language of education. You can find some
helpful terms at the bottom of the portfolio page where you are doing your
writing.
As far as actually typing in this section of the portfolio,
please remember that while you can type directly into the boxes, I suggest you
type your information in a word processor first. That way, you can spell check and grammar
check your writing. You simply use the
word processor like your normally would.
When you have written and checked your work, you use the mouse to select
(highlight) the text you want to put in your portfolio. With the text highlighted select edit, copy Like
this:
And then in your portfolio
click in the box where you want the text to go and click edit, paste like this:
The information will now
appear in the box you clicked in. Click
somewhere on a blank part of the screen and the screen will refresh to save
your changes.
Once you have placed all of your artifacts in your
portfolio, and completed all of your writing you need to take the time to check
everything out before sending it to the university. May I suggest the following ideas: FinalTouches.
You
are finally ready to send your portfolio to the university. The first thing you need to do is publish
your finished work. This is done by
clicking on the publish button at the top of the ePortfolio screen. It looks like this:
A new window will open up on your computer and will show
you what your portfolio will look like to everyone. Thoroughly check everything to make sure it
is working properly. Once you have done
this, close that window and click on the return button to the left of the
publish button you just clicked on.
You should now be at the screen that shows the list of your
portfolio(s). It looks like this:
Click on the assess Button to
send your portfolio to the university.
You will see a screen like this:
Click on the submit portfolio
button in the middle of the screen. You
will now see a window that looks like this:
Fill out the requested
information by clicking the radio button (circle) to its left. You should now see a colored dot in the middle
of the circle. If not, click it again. Once you see the dot, click the OK button at
the bottom of the screen. You will be
brought to the next screen, which looks like this:
Fill out the requested
information by clicking the check box to its left. You should now see a colored check in the middle
of the square. If not, click it again. Once you see the check, click the OK button
at the bottom of the screen. You will be
brought to the next screen, which looks like this:
Select one of the standards
from your portfolio by clicking the radio button (circle) to its left. You should now see a colored dot in the middle
of the circle. If not, click it again. Once you see the dot, click the OK
button. You will now see a screen like this:
Click the check box to the left
of the name of the professor you have been instructed to send the selected
standard to. You should now see a
colored check in the middle of the square.
If not, click it again. Once you
see the check, click the OK button at the bottom of the screen. You will be brought back to this screen:
Continue this process for the
remaining nine standards. Please note: you will not be required
to fill out the demographic information screens again.
To check the status of your portfolio’s assessment, click
the “Check Assessment” button (see above illustration). You will be brought to a screen that shows
you the current status of your assessment.
If you are interested in learning more about the advanced
features of the ePortfolio, please click on the help button found at the top of
every screen in ePortfolio. You may only
see the top of the question mark, but you can still click on it. To see all of the question mark, click on the
scroll bar to the right of it and scroll down. It looks like this:
I hope you have enjoyed the tutorials. If you have any suggestions for their further
improvement, please notify one of your professors. You only have one little thing to do now that
you have finished your first professional digital portfolio:
CELEBRATE!
It looks like this:
