Digital Teaching Portfolios Natalie B Milman Ph D

Digital Teaching Portfolios Natalie B. Milman, Ph. D. August 22, 2007 1

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. 2

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. 3

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 4

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 5

Let’s examine some! home. gwu. edu/~nmilman/citl 6

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? 7

Contact Information Natalie B. Milman nmilman@gwu. edu 202. 994. 1884 URL: home. gwu. edu/~nmilman/citl 8