Artifacts • Portfolio at a Glance • Helen C. Barrett, Ph.D. • September, 2004

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Artifacts


Competencies Demonstrated -->
Notes
Electronic Portfolio Knowledge, Skills and Experience
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Digital Storytelling (Digital Video Editing Skills) [3]
Multimedia & Web Page Authoring (Technology Skills)
Presentation, Instructional Design & Teaching Skills
 Assessment Knowledge (under Publications)
Writing Skills (under Publications)
My Website on Electronic Portfolios   [7]

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My "Blogger" blog  [8]

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Choices - a digital story of learning (.mov)  [9]  

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Electronic Portfolios as Digital Stories of Learning (.mov)  [10] x

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Preparing for a Digital Storytelling Workshop (.mov)  [11]  

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Professional Development for Implementing Electronic Portfolios  [12] x    

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Electronic Portfolios as Digital Stories of Learning  [13] x x    

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Conflicting Paradigms in Electronic Portfolio Approaches  [14] x      

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Differentiating ePortfolios and Assessment Management Systems  [15] x      

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Using Adobe Acrobat for Electronic Portfolio Development  [16]    

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Technology-Supported Portfolio Assessment  [17] x        

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Create Your Own Electronic Portfolio  [18]          

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Distance Courses on Electronic Portfolios and Digital Storytelling  [19] x x  

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Plan/Proposal for Book -- Portfolios at the Crossroads  [20] x        

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CD-ROM Handbook  [21] x   X    

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Workshop Outlines on Electronic Portfolios and Digital Storytelling  [22] x    

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Apple Learning Interchange Exhibit on Electronic Portfolios  [23]

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Family Portfolio and Digital Story Samples  [24] x

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"At-a-Glance" Guides - Common Software Tools for Creating and Publishing Electronic Portfolios  [25] x  

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My Vita (PDF)  [26]

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Descriptions of presentations and workshops available  [27] x    

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White Paper: Researching Electronic Portfolios and Learner Engagement






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AERA paper






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Authentic Assessment with Electronic Portfolios using Common Software and Web 2.0 Tools






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Purpose of Digital Stories in ePortfolios

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 Electronic Portfolio Knowledge, Skills and Experience Digital Storytelling (Digital Video Editing Skills) Multimedia & Web Page Authoring (Technology Skills) Presentation, Instructional Design & Teaching Skills Assessment Knowledge
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 Writing Skills (under Publications)

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[1]
Welcome to my e-portfolio. I am exploring the capabilities of this portfolio system as part of my research on implementation of online electronic portfolio systems.
Every portfolio has a purpose. My purpose for developing this portfolio is to show my skills in developing an electronic portfolio using any number of tools. After reviewing all of my artifacts (see my Portfolio at a Glance) I found five general categories of competencies:
1. Electronic Portfolio Knowledge, Skills and Experience
2. Digital Storytelling - Digital Video Editing Skills
3. Multimedia & Web Page Authoring Skills - Technology Skills
4. Teaching and Instructional Design Skills - Presentations
5. Assessment Knowledge and Writing Skills (included under the first category
[2]
This is my collection of artifacts that are selected to demonstrate specific competencies in portfolio development knowledge and skills. I have been researching, presenting and writing about electronic portfolios since 1991. This collection shows the growth in my thinking about electronic portfolio development between 1991 and 2004.
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The QuickTime movies below provide examples of digital stories that I have created over the last three years. I attended the Center for Digital Storytelling workshop in January 2003, and have been exploring the practice since then. I have designed and delivered workshops to help Teacher Education students and faculty to develop digital stories as reflective artifacts in their electronic portfolios.
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These artifacts represent my skills in multimedia development and web page authoring. I have developed a CD-ROM using Adobe Acrobat and QuickTime movies. In addition, there are Digital Stories that are posted in another collection, and my web site which showcases my knowledge and skills in electronic portfolio development.
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These documents were selected to showcase my competencies in teaching and instructional design. I have developed and delivered workshops on electronic portfolio development, from three hours to three days, and most have been evaluated through my PT3 grant. I have also developed a set of two-day workshops on electronic portfolios and digital storytelling for a major technology company.
[6]
These publications were selected as evidence of my writing skills and my knowledge about portfolios that support assessment for learning. I chose examples of my publications from the early 1990s through to the summer of 2004. I can definitely see a change in my thinking about portfolios, from learning about e-portfolio tools, to learning about assessment for learning.
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This is my web site on electronic portfolios in education. I started working on this website in 1995, on the server that I set up for the University of Alaska Anchorage School of Education. I bought my own domain names in 2000, and have been updating it ever since. You might say that this web site contains the <b>archive</b> of my professional work in electronic portfolio development since my research started in 1991. I actually have three URLs that point to this same page: http://electronicportfolios.com http://electronicportfolios.org http://helenbarrett.com
[8]
I started to experiment with blogs in the spring of 2004. Within a couple of months, this blog has been highlighted on several lists of recommended educational blogs. I have enjoyed writing in this blog, to use it as a way to explore my own thoughts and reflections on my experiences. As a result of writing in this blog, I am experimenting with other tools, as well, to see how various blogging software would work to construct e-portfolios.
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Seventh grade provided one of my most vivid memories of learning. I have made sense of this experience with a reflective digital story.
Reflecting back on that learning experience as a professional educator, I realize that the problem was not with me, but with the assignment. What a difficult task I was given... it takes time to build those synapses in the brain. Memorization has its place in learning, but I didn't derive the true meaning of the poem I had to memorize until much later in life.
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This narrated slide show presents the content of my article posted at http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/epstory.html
This presentation looks at technologies that are engaging forstudents to foster intrinsic motivation, specifically digital storytelling.
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I created this digital story to help participants prepare for a digital storytelling workshop.
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My most recent web page on my website, responding to requests by school districts for information on how to help teachers who need to support student electronic portfolio development. Includes Change theory, portfolio and technology skills assessments.
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This 2004 paper provides the a summary of assessment of and for learning, portfolios that support assessment for learning, and technologies that engage learners in the portfolio development process: digital storytelling, blogs and wikis.
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This 2004 paper covers the conflicting paradigms in portfolio development, positivism vs. constructivism. The paper covers the Legal and Psychometric Issues of High Stakes Portfolios, and how to separate assessment management systems and electronic portfolios, to maintain the integrity of both. Links to institutions who have successfully kept the two tools separate. Discusses a theory of motivation and electronic portfolios around content, purpose, and process.
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This SITE 2004 paper addresses some of the issues of definition, between electronic portfolios and online assessment management systems. It is difficult to conduct comparative research on electronic portfolios because of the emergence of very diverse models of implementation, especially in some of the new commercial tools that are available. These different implementations and Òdefinition by defaultÓ make the task more difficult. This paper is an attempt to delineate the differences between electronic portfolios and online assessment management systems.
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This paper outlines AdobeÕs Portable Document Format as the ideal container for electronic portfolio reflections connected to digital artifacts, describes the software environment, and then describes the process for converting digital artifacts from many applications into the Portable Document Format, and maintaining a cross-platform, web-accesible, hyperlinked digital portfolio. I received an award at the SITE 2001 Conference as "Best Technical Paper."
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This was my first publication on Electronic Portfolios, published in The Computing Teacher, March, 1994.
Reprinted in Student Portfolios: A Collection of Articles edited by Robin Fogarty (1996). Palatine, Illinois: IRI/Skylight Training & Publishing, Inc., pp. 127-137.
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The latest article that I published in Learning & Leading with Technology, April 2000, focused on "Using Off-the-Shelf Software to Showcase Your Own or Student Work." In this article, I moved from commercial software to the use of common desktop software tools.
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I developed this series of courses on electronic portfolios and digital storytelling, which were piloted with Wichita State University in 2003 using Blackboard. The courses need to be updated, but can be offered using any web-based environment.
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I developed a book proposal with Joanne Carney to address Portfolios at the Crossroads: the impact of high stakes accountability and emerging technologies on the portfolio in education.
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I developed a CD-ROM in 2002 to use in workshops and to sell on my website. I made a major revision in the spring of 2004, adding Digital Storytelling to support deep learning.
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These two-day workshops were developed in the winter of 2004 for a major technology company. The Digital Storytelling workshop was piloted twice in 2004 through my PT3 grant. The evaluation report from Rockman et.al. demonstrates the success of the first workshop.
[23]
I developed this Expert Exhibit on Electronic Portfolios for Apple Computer as an Apple Distringuished Educator. I was flown down to Apple's office in Austin to record the video clips, which I am not very pleased with the results. Some day I will redo the whole exhibit, with new video clips.
[24]
These documents contain portfolios developed with my granddaughter for her Kindergarten, First and Second Grade years. The digital stories for K & 1 are reflections on the year. The digital story for 2nd grade is her autobiography written as part of a school project. The "Dad" story is the project we created at the Center for Digital Storytelling.
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These short guides were developed to support the stages of electronic portfolio development, from the collection/digitization process, through the selection/reflection construction/hyperlinking process to the final publication process. I developed these guides as part of the Apple Learning Interchange Exhibit development.
[26]
My Vita provides a comprehensive list of my strengths, achievements, publications, conference presentations and teaching experience.
[27]
These are descriptions of the presentations and workshops that I have developed.