Quick Start Tips for teaching with eportfolios
Getting Started
Step One: Decide on how you want students to use the eportfolio in your course; see ideas here. All student eportfolios should have a minimum of a Welcome/About me page, Goals page and Courses page. Students should develop course specific requirements linked to the courses page or on additional pages (e.g. outside the class, achievements, and so on.)
Step Two: Identify assignments or activities that would make good portfolio artifacts that currently exist in your course and support your current learning goals and/or identify assignments you might want to extend or adapt to be good portfolio assignments. (A good portfolio artifact includes integrative learning characteristics, opportunities for reflection, and demonstrates mastery of course goals and content.)
Step Three: Extend existing learning opportunities with opportunities for reflection regularly through the semester, so that student can practice reflection
Step Four: 1.
Decide on how you want students to get feedback
on their porftolios- the portfolios will be better and more beneficial to the
students if they have an authentic audience. There are lots of creative ways to incorporate review, some general options include:
Step Five: Look at your course calendar and stagger assignments and due dates for elements of the portfolio throughout the semester so that it is an ongoing assignment. In order to make the portfolio more meaningful, have students do parts of the portfolio throughout the semester, rather than waiting until the end of the course.
Step Six: Review the student handouts, and example prompts. Use and adapt as needed. (Please handout the student eportfolio information sheet.)
Check out the site Amanda Miller, ART, made with her students for her ARTT 226 Monotype Workshop.
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Organization Tips and IdeasFiles:
Develop a consistent file naming system for assignments in the class.This will help students keep organized and keep track of their work, so when they are working on their portfolio they can easily find the files they are looking for.
Keeping track of Student Sites for Grading and Feedback: Create a blackboard assignment page and have students submit the URL in the Bb site. Your assignment instructions can specify the elements due and assign points for that submission. Alternately, have students post the URL to a Discussion thread and encourage peer commenting on the site. Assign points to the discussion post. |