Day 4:

Morning session: Toward Digital Portfolios for Students, Faculty and Pre-Service Teachers. Beginning with examples, and an analysis of the pros and cons of using portfolios as tools for assessment, engagement and exhibition, we'll discuss the techniques, advantages and disadvantages of developing digital portfolios in a variety of classroom and in-service contexts.

Background:
• "Professors Use the Web to Publish Portfolios of Teaching Techniques" (from The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 19,2001.
• A Sample Teaching Portfolio in Higher Ed (Paul L. Schumann)
• Another Sample of a Teaching Portfolio in Higher Ed (Christie Belardo)
• Yet Another Sample from Higher Education (Joseph A. Braun, Jr.)
• An Education Graduate's Teaching Portfolio (Kathleen Fischer)
• Digital Portfolios: A Richer Picture of Student Performance (David Niguidula's Paper at CES/AISR)
• Helen Barrett's Page
• Profiles for Technology-Literate Teachers (at NETS)

Afternoon session: Lab #2. We'll continue the work begun in the first laboratory, completing "working drafts" of assessment and/or production projects.

For Tomorrow: Please read Druin (for the a.m. session) and Sunstein (for the p.m. session), consider a(nother) response to the threaded discussion question about Sandholtz et al.

© 2001 Roger B. Blumberg