Contact - Issue 6

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October 2004 - Electronic Teaching Portfolios

Focus on Technology
Digital Teaching Portfolios Build, Display Talent

by Clare Kilbane and Robert McNergney

Although focusing on pre-service teachers, the authors discuss the electronic teaching portfolio as a method of displaying tangible evidence of a teacher's knowledge, skills, and achievements.

http://www.aacte.org/Research/focus_tech_digital.htm

Note: These authors also have a book, "The Digital Teaching Portfolio: A How-to Guide for Educators," available in our library.


Electronic Portfolios for Educators
by Jerry P. Galloway, Indiana University Northwest

Galloway discusses the three types of e-portfolios - Process, Product and Showcase as well as the the advantages and limitation of digital teaching portfolios.

http://jerrygalloway.com/pro/portfoliosforeducators.htm


Conflicting Paradigms in Electronic Portfolio Approaches
by Helen C. Barrett, Ph.D. and Judy Wilkerson, Ph.D

There are a variety of strategies for developing electronic portfolios. This article addresses the underlying philosophy or conceptual framework that should be considered when selecting a strategy for developing electronic portfolios.

http://electronicportfolios.org/systems/paradigms.html


Other resources:

The Teaching Portfolio
A how-go guide to build a standard teaching portfolio.
http://www.usask.ca/tlc/teaching_portfolios/


New: From the library is new information about linking to articles in the library databases. Please go to http://www.uoit.ca/EN/main/11258/13977/14102/elec_lic.html#DL


Contact is produced by the Office of the Associate Provost, Learning Technologies, University of Ontario Institute of Technology.