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Bank Street College of EducationPrincipals Leadership Portfolio – How to and Helpful Hints

K. Crowley and S. Sherwood

+The background

As part of our graduation requirements we need to have a portfolio of our 18 months in leadership.

In the past these portfolio's have been complied in binders, then electronically on a jump drive.

However, in order to keep up with the ever growing changes in education, the portfolios have moved to a new form:

Online e-portfolios

+Google Sites for e-portfolio’s

In order to organize our portfolio’s a template for a website has been developed using google sites.

This template can be customized allowing for your own flare and creativity or can be left as is.

The following slides will provide a quick reference tool as you begin to familiarize yourself with google sites (if you don’t know how to use it already)

+How to access google sites

Log into your google email – www.gmail.com If you do not have a google email – type in www.gmail.com

and set up a google email address.

Once logged in go to and look at the black toolbar at the top;

+Getting your site set up The select the “more” tab

And then the “even more” option

+Getting your site set up continued Scroll down to the “sites” option

Next chose the create button

+Getting your site set up continued Chose the browse the gallery for more thumbnail

Type in “Bank Street College of Education and click the magnifying glass

+Getting your site set up continued Chose the template that looks like the one below;

If this screen appears then make sure this template in the blue toolbar at top.

+Getting your site set up continued Make sure that this box is highlighted;

Then name your site (it may take a couple of tries as your name may be taken. Fill in the security code and then hit the create button

+Editing your site There are several key things you need to know that will

help you understand the basics to editing a site. As an overview keep the following in mind;

There is a pencil at the top of every page that allows you to edit.

There is also the “more button” which will bring you to the back end of your site and will allow you to change the theme of your site, organize your toolbars, and allow you to personalize your site more. This is the “manage site” option

+Editing your site – MORE TAB The MORE TAB allows you access

to different parts of the site;

Page settings allows you to edit the following features

Manage site brings you to the back end of your site

+Editing your site – MANAGE SITE On this page using this tab you;

Access your pages with the PAGES tab

Delete items with the DELETE ITEMS tab

Change theme with the THEMES tab

Change the order of things with the SITE LAYOUT tab

Check the activity of the site with the RECENT SITE ACTIVTY TAB

Check your attachments with the ATTACHMENTS tab

+Editing your site – COMPETENCIES At the home page click on the tab for – 18 MONTHS IN

LEADERSHIP

Then click on one of the competencies

Then chose one of the personal elements

+Editing your site – COMPETENCIES From here you can add images, charts, documents,

from google docs

+Editing your site – COMPETENCIES From here you can edit the text

And you can also add files using this button

Bank Street Leadership Portoflio How-to

+Example sites and future referenceIf you are looking for some inspiration you can check out these two sites which are still two very big works in progress but at least they will give you some ideas;

https://sites.google.com/site/kristinmcrowley/

Or

https://sites.google.com/site/sherwoodleadershipportfolio/Future ReferenceYou can find this slideshow by scanning the QR Code below