E-Portfolio+Guidelines

**Introduction**

 * Each student in ED 547 will create their own E-Portfolio. You have been collecting artifacts and materials throughout the semester to be included in your portfolio. This will be a venue we will use to create your own E-Portfolio and upload your saved files as well as add any other material you want to include.**
 * Wiki spaces may be set for controlled access so your wiki will not be open to the public unless you choose to allow it. However, you will have access any time you want to show your e-portfolio to someone else, like an administrator or your students or to add more artifacts as you progress in your development.**
 * Wiki spaces is free for us in education. You may use it personally, of course, but you may also teach you students how to display their work over a period of time. Students would love this! You will need to sign up for a free wikispaces.com account. Be sure to include your name in the name of your wikispaces.com account.**

**Specifics**

 * The end product will be what you will develop and submit for your portfolio grade in ED 547 Evaluating Learning. Your e-portfolio "feel and look" may be however you desire. The following are specifics to include in your organization:**
 * 1) **Bio Page with Picture**
 * 2) **Chapter-by-chapter front pages and the artifact you have created or the document you have written. This would include something about the content of each chapter. It does not need to be elaborate, but something that depicts your skill and knowledge of each topic. There should be twelve chapters.**
 * 3) **A well written philosophy or mission statement about assessment and your students. This should be a few sentences rather than an entire page of in-depth text. It can be a motto to be displayed in your classroom for everyone to see, along with an explanation of what it means.**
 * 4) **Anything else you wish to include. This could be examples of assessments you have created not displayed elsewhere like an analysis of student data (without identifying information). It could be anything you want to include in your E-Portfolio.**

**Who will see your E-Portfolio?**

 * You will need to allow me to view your e-portfolio for grading purposes. Then it would be fantastic to allow other students in this class access to show what you have created. We all can learn something from one another.** **This is not a requirement, but I know there will be some fantastic wikispaces much better than mine and excellent examples of what can be done. Once created and finished, you can send your link to me or the entire class by email. Or you may post it on a discussion board.**

**Resources**
===There are tutorials within the wikispaces website. There are also good You Tube videos in how to create a wiki page in wikispaces. There are other hosts for e-portfolios, but this has been recommended as one of the most user friendly sites. If you prefer you may use Google Sites rather than Wikispaces. They are similar. Both are free and both will give you access as long as you want.===

===So, start playing around with this. I know it is frightening to start something new, but I want to challenge you and stretch you to a new point. I want you to get as much out of this experience as possible. I want you to go back to school in August and have new skills and knowledge to use in your teaching.===