Week+2+A+Digital+Portfolio+Creation+(1)

1. Kevin McIntyre Digital Portfolio http://www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/wstudents/TSED/Students03/McIntyre/Portfolio/index.html 2. Vincent Patrick Veenbrink http://vincentsportfolio.wikispaces.com/ 3 . Read 'What is a Digital Portfolio?' and explore more examples of digital portfolios from the links given. 1 . Tina (Miss G) from Perth, Western Australia http://edavenue.homestead.com/main1.html 2 . Marielle http://room17math.wikispaces.com/817Marielle+D 3. PSPLanguages Journey http://pspljourney.wikispaces.com/ ** - What are the three important features of a digital portfolio? - List one advantage and one disadvantage of a digital portfolio. - Find a student digital portfolio that you like, hyperlink the URL and describe the strengths and weaknesses of this portfolio. ** 5 **** . Wiki /Digital Portfolio Creation ** (a) For your digital portfolio, you will start a personal wiki at wikispaces.com. Click on ‘Pricing’ at the bottom of the page. You will find a “Basic” form to fill in. Follow the instructions and create your wiki / E-Portfolio. What you have created is your Wiki's Home Page. Now you should continue to create another two pages of your LALI274CALL wiki site: Personal page and My Digital Portfolio. To do that, go through the following steps:
 * Week 2A: **** Digital Portfolio Creation **
 * 1. Learning about Wikis / online digital portfolios: **
 * Study the following wikis**
 * 2 **** . Answer these questions about each portfolio on the Wiki Discussion Forum: **
 * 1) What content is on each? What are the headings? What subjects and other areas are included?
 * 2) What is good about the web design? What is not so good? (Refer to colours, organisation of images and text, types of images etc)
 * 3) Make comments about the organisation of the portfolio. (Refer to navigation and how items are found)
 * 3. Learning more about Wikis / online digital portfolios: ****Study some more wikis**
 * 4 **** . Discuss these points on the Wiki Discussion Forum:
 * Open this page**: http://www.wikispaces.com/
 * CONGRATULATIONS! You have just started your new wiki and taken the first step towards developing your online digital portfolio.**
 * Click //New Page.// In the open window that appears, write the name of your new page: Personal. Click //Create.// Your //Personal// page is created. You can see it appearing on the left bar of your website. You can introduce yourself in this page, add photos, etc. To do that, you always havd to be using the Text Editor. Don't forget to alway SAVE anything you add on individual pages / on your wiki.
 * Follow the same procedure to create your //My Digital Portfolio// page. In this page you can add an introduction to your Digital Portfolio and then add a list of the components of your portfolio. You can start with:
 * Reflective Learning
 * Digital Portfolio Development
 * Annotated Evaluative Review
 * CALL Lesson Observation(s)
 * CALL Lesson Planning
 * Teaching
 * Comparative / Collaborative Online Review of L2 Testing software
 * Design & Planning Thematic Unit / LAMS sequence
 * Go back to each page and work on its presentation: size of fonts, colour of fonts, colour of background, etc. Include photos and any other item you think is appropriate to include in your CALL wiki.

(b) Send your wiki “Online Digital Portfolio” electronic address to all your CALL classmates and to your lecturer.

(c) Continue to explore the Wiki features as much as you can, both in class and at home.

** 6 **** . Reflective Writing: ** (a)  Reflect on your experience of wiki (online digital portfolio) creation. (b)  How can this be used in TEFL, by the teacher, by the students? (c)   A [|wiki] is an online website that you can own and edit. It can be used for presentation of material and for collaboration. What advantages or disadvantages does this have for you as a publication tool?

**Optional Homework**: Investigate software options for creating a digital portfolio [|Explore HTML] (the language used to create web pages). Is this a good option for creating a digital portfolio? Explore software such as [|Frontpage] or [|Dreamweaver]. What advantages do you have using these?