Post on 18-Jan-2016
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Digital Teaching Portfolios Natalie B. Milman, Ph.D.
August 22, 2007
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Participants will:
1. Gain an understanding of digital teaching portfolios
2. Explore some examples of digital teaching portfolios, and
3. Determine the advantages, disadvantages, and purposes for creating digital teaching portfolios as a faculty member.
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What are Portfolios?
Portfolios are goal-driven, organized, collections of materials that demonstrate a person's expansion of knowledge and skills over time.
The contents, organization, and presentation of materials in portfolios vary depending on their audience and purpose.
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What are Teaching Portfolios?• Special type of presentation portfolio• Contain artifacts from teaching• Demonstrate deliberate selection, reflection, and
communication revolving around the artifacts• Illustrate a professional’s recognition of personal
competence
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What are Digital Teaching Portfolios?
• Contain the same content traditional portfolios include but present these professional materials in digital format
• Also referred to as multimedia portfolios, electronic portfolios, e-folios, webfolios and electronically-augmented portfolios
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Let’s examine some!
home.gwu.edu/~nmilman/citl
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Questions to consider:1. Which elements are common among all of the
portfolios you have examined? 2. Why would you want to create a digital teaching
portfolio as opposed to a traditional (print-based) portfolio (dossier)?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the World Wide Web for publishing a portfolio?
4. Which portfolios did you like most? 5. Which portfolios did you like least?
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Contact Information
Natalie B. Milman
nmilman@gwu.edu
202.994.1884
URL: home.gwu.edu/~nmilman/citl