CTE New Teacher Institute Forum: Portfolios

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For the past couple of weeks you have experienced asynchronous online learning (doing modules by yourself). Previously this semester you have experienced synchronous online learning (all together in the Collaborate room). Which do you think is more effective and why do you think that? Which do you like better, and why?

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 5

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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Portfolios

Here is my dilemma; I have hard time thinking in abstract. These requirements are a difficult for me to decipher. Every time I read one of the requirements, I get stuck! It is so bad that getting started seems impossible. Though, when I read everyone’s response on this blog, no one seems to have a problem but me. I’m sure that the portfolio is to help us with our professional growth, but I have to read the standard items 3 to 4 times to make sense of them. I’ve never really been asked to prove what I am doing and I assume in this case the challenge is categorizing what I do. As far as using a portfolios for my students, I have done something in the past and am doing something similar now with the creating a notebook. But Google sites provide an alternative for my students to do this electronically, this may be something I can implement in the next school year.

1 comment:

11-6-2009 said...: I am experiencing the same problems as you are. I was one of the ones who was unable to get logged in correctly at GSU the Saturday we covered the e-portfolios in class. I fill I am stuck and struggling to get off the ground. When I read the assignments, for some reason, I feel as if I am trying to understand a different language. As I stated in my blog I am looking forward to experimenting with the electronic version as to the paper format we generally use in my class. I think the students will like it more as well. I’m sure it is like everything else, you have to give it a try before you can fully appreciate what it is.; February 15, 2009 at 10:25:00 AM EST