Developing Student Electronic Portfolios:
Valdosta State University Electronic Portfolio Timeline
Diane L. Judd, Ph.D., Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia
1998 The faculty in the Early Childhood and Reading Education
Department at VSU discussed the value of e-portfolios and the possibilities
of implementing them into the ECRE curriculum.
1999 Discussion was continued by the ECRE faculty, and
we began to seek information about e-portfolios and to look at examples
from other universities. We believed there was a need, because NCATE
was scheduled to visit VSU in fall 2001.
2000 The ECRE Department faculty decided to discuss the development
of an e-portfolio format with the Dean of the COE.
* The Dean had definite ideas about the e-portfolios. This would be a COE e-portfolio project in its development and implementation.* The COE electronic portfolio committee was formed with at least one faculty member from each department in the COE.
§ The e-portfolio committee discussed possible formats and implementation for the COE e-portfolios.§ There was a consensus by the e-portfolio committee members to use the INTASC Standards and the Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching Components. Danielson (1996) provided a correlation table of the INTASC standards and the framework.
· Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) with the approval of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards developed performance-based standards and assessment strategies (INTASC standards).
§ The COE e-portfolio committee also agreed to have the education majors to begin their e-portfolio in the Introduction to Education course in the VSU core curriculum.
* The technology support person for COE faculty provided the technology expertise for the e-portfolio project.
§ A small sub-committee worked with the technology support person to design a template that would incorporate the INTASC Standards and the Charlotte Danielson's Framework. This e-portfolio template was developed in Microsoft FrontPage.
2001 The new COE e-portfolio format was implemented at VSU in the
Introduction to Education classes and the Educational Technology classes
in the Early Childhood and Reading Education Program.
- * The e-portfolio template for the COE at VSU is at:
http://portfolios.valdosta.edu/ugtemp
* An example of the e-portfolio is at: http://portfolios.valdosta.edu/djudd/
Danielson, C. (1996). Enhancing professional practice: A framework for teaching. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
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