"The portfolio is a laboratory where students construct meaning from their accumulated experience."(Paulson & Paulson, 1991, p.5)

Proposal of Project

What? How? Why?

What: An ePortfolio (electronic portfolio) is designed as a digital archive of student's learning and academic growth over a period of time. The ePortfolio highlights achievements, skills, interests, and reflections. The ePortfolio will naturally tell a complete learning story of the student.
How: As you progress through this course you will engage in creating an ePortfolio through Evernote. Learn how to build authentic assessments to keep students interested an motivated. Hone your technology skills. Work within the Multiple Intelligence theory to create interesting, personal, examples of an ePortfolio. Lastly, be able to introduce ePortfolios to your colleagues.
Why: An ePortfolio will allow you to show academic growth and depth of understanding over a large period of time. An ePortfolio offers an opportunity for students to show what they have learned, describe how they learned it, and how they can apply it. An ePortfolio is meant to highlight strengths.

Needs Analysis

Instructional Problem

How do you show academic growth and depth of understanding over a period of time?
How do you organize and manage student work?
How do you intrinsically motivate students?

Nature of What is to be Learned

Learning Outcomes

You will understand how ePortfolios support child-centered learning.
You will outline and reproduce an ePortfolio by following instructions on how to plan, design, publish and assess an ePortfolio.
You will design creative ways to generate an ePortfolio.
You will learn ways to evaluate a student's ePortfolio.
You will be able to share with your peers examples of an ePortfolio and why you think they are an effective tool in the classroom.

Who will benefit from this course?

This course will benefit anyone who is interested in finding a new way to assess the authentic academic growth of a student.
Someone who is interested in providing a way to intrinsically motive their students by teaching them to be self-aware.
Someone who is looking for a way to organize and manage student journals, readers and writers notebooks, projects, experiments, whole class creations such as bulletin boards, video clips and photographs, and student reflections.
Ultimately, your student's.

Goals:

Shared Vision: It is my hope that you are engaging in this course because your interested in authentic assessment and keeping your students interested, excited and accountable for their learning. The ultimate goal of this course is for your students to reap the benefits of what you have learned. Students will be able to document and reflect upon their own personal growth.

Performance Objectives

Using a computer, given detailed instructions, the student will outline how to plan an ePortfolio.
Using a computer, given detailed instructions the student will explore different ways to design an ePortfolio.
Using a computer, given detailed instructions, the student will create rubrics to assess ePortfolios.
Using a computer, given detailed instructions and examples, the student will generate the construction of an ePortfolio.
Using a computer ,given detailed instructions the student will be able to publish an ePortfolio using LiveBinder.
After taking this course the student will be able to state to their fellow colleagues how to construct an ePortfolio.

Procedural Task Analysis

Prerequisites: Capabilities that will make your learning easier and faster.

Essential

These component skills are needed to preform the stated objectives:

Know how to comfortably use a computer

Know how to use the internet

Know how to use a digital camera

Know how to use a scanner

Know how to upload documents and photos

Know how to write rubrics

Create a free account with LiveBinder

Supportive

These capabilities will make your learning more effective:

Understand and demonstrate how children learn

Understand and apply Gardner's multiple intelligence theory

Understand and state what is metacognition and what it means to reflect on your thinking

Curriculum Map

media: ePortfolio curriculum map.pdf

Course Outline

media: Mini Course Outline.pdf

Unit sequencing/Objectives (work in progress)

Unit 1: How do ePortfolios support child-centered learning?

Target objectives:

Participants will:

Identify the benefits of ePortfolios through readings, videos, and documents.

Activities:

Write a list of benefits

Unit 2: What are some options for organizing an ePortfolio?

Target objectives:

Participants will:

Understand how Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory can help decide what information should be included in a student's ePortfolio.
Evaluate what types of documents should be in an ePortfolio.
Decide which means of storage is best for your students.

Activities:

Read a brief summary of the Multiple Intelligence theory.
Read about different types of artifacts that can be included in an ePortfolio.
Make a list of artifacts that will be included in the ePortfolio.
Make a classroom policy or contract for the use of an ePortfolio in your classroom.
Explore the LiveBinder website and other types of storage website for ePortfolios.

Unit 3: How do I create an ePortfolio?

Target Objectives:

Participants will: