From Crayons to Cyberspace: Creating A Professional Teaching Portfolio (with Printed Access Card) - Softcover

Kinnard, Jo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495189294 ISBN 13: 9780495189299

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

FROM CRAYONS TO CYBERSPACE gives your students the tools they need to build better digital portfolios right from the start. Created to meet the needs of students in teacher education programs, the text has a special emphasis on digital portfolios, although it can also be used by students who will develop traditional (paper) portfolios. The text guides students through the steps of preparing a portfolio including guidelines for artifact selection and reflection. The final chapters of the book introduce students to electronic portfolios - now widely used in teacher education programs across the country. And to help students begin the task of building their electronic portfolio, the text includes four months of access to iWebfolio, an outstanding portfolio authoring tool that allows students to create, store, and submit their portfolios for review quickly and easily.

About this title

About the Author

Jo Kinnard's primary area of expertise is instructional technology. She also holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy, an MS in Computer Science, and two other Masters degrees in different areas of Philosophy. Her background includes several years of teaching experience at various levels from K-12 through graduate school, as well as about nine years as an IT professional. While a graduate student at Temple University she participated in a university-wide study of early adopters of technology in education. She has served on university-level technology committees at Temple, Rowan and Clayton State universities. She has presented and published on topics such as portfolio development in personal and professional growth, student-centered teaching, uses of technology in education, student engagement in the classroom, and child drama in education. She is passionate about teaching and harnessing technology to create an active learning environment in her classroom.

Review

"...impressive is that the text is adaptable to teacher education programs that use either template-based or free-form portfolios. This is a flexible text that seamlessly connects the theory and rationale of portfolios as part of the lifelong learning process with the 'nuts and bolts' issues of portfolio construction faced by undergraduate students."

"The author does more than just tell students what types of items to choose as artifacts; in fact, readers are led through a decision-making process AND given some guidelines on how to evaluate their choices. This would be VERY helpful to my students."

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0495189294
• ISBN 13: 9780495189299
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112