Electronic Portfolio Development

Course Description

Portfolios are excellent tools assessing student learning over an extended period, but keeping learning artifacts organized and accessible is a challenge. This course will introduce you to electronic portfolios - a digital solution to documenting student achievement in a standards-based curriculum. Website development experience and Instructor consent required. (1)

Reflection

Putting together my portfolio for this program was something I was really looking forward to. There were two reasons for this. First, it allowed me a way to put together my thoughts in different parts of education into a single medium, and secondly, it created an opportunity to reflect on my philosophy of education and see which parts were weak, and which parts required further examination. One of the hardest parts of the portfolio was putting together my Learning Beliefs Statement, because I hadn't attempted to distill my beliefs into a single cohesive statement. As such, I found myself going through many drafts and looking back through the research to support my beliefs.

The easy part of portfolio development was actually creating the look and feel. This was something I had already dedicated some amount of time to before I even started the class. I wanted something that would match my blog, so I had a template that looked simple and professional that matched the message I was trying to send.

Artifacts

Footnotes
  1. From the SISLT Course List