Create an electronic portfolio with a word procesor

Developing the Framework for your Educational Technology Foundation Standards Electronic Portfolio

Using a Word Processing Program

Stage 1- In Microsoft Word, prepare your overview/standards page.

Set up the portfolio demonstrating the ISTE/NCATE Educational Technology Foundation Standards

Put a header on the document that will appear on every page that shows your name and the name of the group of standards you are demonstrating.

Copy the Performance Indicators into the document

Cut and paste into the document, putting each performance indicator on a page by itself, using page breaks.

OR Open the file called "template.doc". This file contains the performance indicators for the OLD ISTE Educational Technology Foundations Standards.

Stage 2 - Collecting the Artifacts - The Working Portfolio

Interject personality into the portfolio design. Use some of the graphics capabilities of the report layouts to add style and flair to the portfolio.

Identify the portfolio artifacts (examples of your work, hopefully in electronic form) or experiences you have that demonstrate that you have met this indicator. You might create a separate list of all of the artifacts that you have collected and how they might demonstrate your competency.

Some authors recommend that reflections be written for each artifact, to explain why it is in the portfolio. Write a brief reflection explaining about each artifact and why it should be included in your portfolio.

On your hard drive, floppy disk or server, store the artifacts into electronic folders for each standard to organize the artifacts (any type of electronic document).
Use appropriate multimedia to add style and individuality to portfolio.

Use a scanner (or camera) to digitize images [Level 2]
Use a microphone and sound digitizing program to digitize audio artifacts [Level 4]
Use a video camera, digitizing hardware and software to digitize video artifacts [Level 5]

Stage 3 - Selection, Reflections & Direction - The Reflective Portfolio

Write a reflection for each performance indicator that explains why you think you have demonstrated achievement of this performance indicator. In other words, how you think you have accomplished this standard.
List the artifact that constitute the evidence that supports your reflections.

The portfolio becomes a lifelong learning tool, when we take these reflections and set goals for future learning.

For the performance indicator, write a statement about what you still need to learn in this area, setting some reasonable goals for yourself so that you can achieve this standard.

Stage 4 - Adding hypertext links to become a Connected Portfolio

Word processing programs allow hypertext links to be able to navigate around the document or to open files created by other programs. Microsoft Word uses the Hyperlink... command under the Insert Menu. Select a file (or a bookmark within the same file). It is recommended that you organize all files within the same folder before making these links.
This approach works well with files created with the same software (e.g., Word) but can be problematic if a variety of software packages are used to create the various artifacts. It becomes necessary to have all of software available to open files created by these different programs, which the primary audience for your portfolio might not have (i.e., Inspiration, HyperStudio). Another way to add links to a word processing document is to convert the files into a more universal format, as shown below.

Convert the files to Adobe Acrobat

Convert the files to HTML with JPEG or GIF graphics files and edit using a Web page editor, such as Netscape Composer