TIE592 - Portfolio Development Seminar

TIE 592 - Portfolio Development Seminar

	Course Description
	Artifact
	Reflection
	Standards

Course Description: This course will assist students in selecting and organizing the contents of electronic portfoios to document students' professional growth during the TIE program. During seminar sessions, students will share, discuss, edit, and present artifacts selected for the portfolio and related written reflections.

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Artifact: The artifact from this course is the Electronic Portfolio which you are now viewing. The electronic portfolio contains artifacts from the coursework completed as part of the TIE requirements, as well as reflections on those artifacts; a statement reflecting my philosophy of technology in education; a list of technology facilitator standards and their correlations to projects I have done, and a library of resources I have collected over the years.

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Reflection: This project has been very worthwhile for a number of reasons. The development of the website alone was a useful experience because it involved a lot of problem-solving of how all the various pieces and parts would fit together, and then figuring out how to use Dreamweaver to do that. The site design itself took on three different incarnations, and the final one that I settled on came about because of an idea I had of what I wanted the overall look of the website to be. In order to do this, I had to learn about layers, and I learned more about formatting my tables. I also worked a lot with a template. The use of the template definitely made my life easier; I was able to copy and paste information or tables from the old site to the new site design easily. Putting together all the resources - including finding them in hard or electronic versions, assembling them and organizing them, was very useful in that it forced me to reflect on each course and the many assignments and projects I had created over the years. Because my coursework spanned four years, and the courses were not often taken cons or even in the usual order, it was interesting to look back and reflect on the work I've done. It seemed to me that each of the courses I had acted as a piece in a puzzle, and it wasn't until this class that I could see that what the image in the puzzle looked like.

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Standards: The standards covered in this project include:
	Technology Facilitator Standard One (TF-1.A)
	Educational technology facilitators demonstrate an in-depth understanding of technology operations and concepts.
	The completion of this portfolio represents an in-depth understanding of technology operations in the development of the website. This portfolio was created using the Dreamweaver software and includes twenty-six individual web pages linked together and using layers, tables, internal and external hyperlinks, images, and downloadable documents.

	Technology Facilitator Standard Five (TF-5.B)
	Educational technology facilitators apply technology to enhance and improve personal productivity and professional practice.
	This project required the evaluation and reflection of my own use of technology during the course of my participation in the TIE program at National-Louis. (TF-5.B). It also required that I use technology to increase my own productivity. I used Dreamweaver software as well as Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Access, PowerPoint, Word, AppleWorks and Scratch to complete the projects within this portfolio, and to further my own productivity - this is TF-5.C. Also, I used technology to communicate and collaborate with peers and the larger community through the use of the website and the presentation which occurred on November 15, 2007 (TF-5.D).

	Technology Facilitator Standard Seven (TF-7.A)
	Educational technology facilitators promote the development and implementation of technology infrastructure, procedures, policies, plans and budgets for P-12 schools.
	The creation of this website is a way to model the integration of software used in classroom and administrative settings, including ...information access/telecommunication tools..., which is TF-7.4. This website models the appropriate use of technology to disseminate information and to share and access information of use to others.