Digital Portfolios: Powerful Tools for Promoting Professional Growth and Reflection

by Elizabeth Hartnell-Young, Maureen P. Morriss

Overview

Providing ten steps to develop portfolios that demonstrate professional growth, this complete resource presents tips and strategies for using digital technology and guidelines for creating portfolios.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412949309
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/07/2006
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Hartnell-Young is a research fellow in the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her interests include teacher roles and professional development, e Portfolios, and using mobile technologies for learning in schools. Her recent experience in developing and managing innovative projects in Australian schools includes the Boys’ Education Lighthouse Schools Project in over 350 schools. Formerly a secondary school principal, Elizabeth has also developed and presented leadership and career development programs for the Australian Principals Centre, universities, and government departments. She is a founder of e Portfolio Australia™, a consortium of educators supporting professional development and research into portfolios, and she has written numerous reports and professional papers, including a chapter in the Handbook of Research on e Portfolios ((2006). Elizabeth is also an honorary fellow in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Maureen Morriss is a 30-year teaching veteran and an author who has held leadership positions in the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association and the Australian Literacy Federation. She began her career as an elementary school teacher in 1977, and later served as a principal, curriculum consultant, and staff developer. Maureen has also worked as a tenured lecturer in Australian universities. In 2000, she joined A.U.S.S.I.E. Inc., a leading provider of customized professional development services for K-12 schools in the U.S. and abroad. She has worked extensively providing instructional literacy leadership support to teachers, coaches, and administrators in New York, NY, Montgomery County, MD, Hartford, CT, and Fairfax County, VA. Maureen created BLISS (Balanced Literacy Informational Seminar Series) for principals, now in its fifth year of use, and has acted as the regional leader for A.U.S.S.I.E. for New York City’s Region 7. Her passion is, and has always been, to make a difference in the lives of children through her work with other educators.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Connecting Ideas to Spur Thinking
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
1. Professional Learning, Portfolios, and Today’s Technology
2. Why Go Digital?
3. Looking Forward, Looking Back: Integrating Personal Vision Into Your Portfolio
4. Ten Steps to Producing a Digital Portfolio
5. Understanding the Technology: Keeping the Portfolio Alive!
6. Presenting a Digital Portfolio
7. Evaluating a Digital Portfolio
8. Sharing the Knowledge: Global Networking
9. Enhancing Change Through Digital Portfolio Development
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"The chapters are crafted for the inexperienced person confronted with keeping and maintaining a digital portfolio, but there are plenty of recommendations for the reader who has some experience but who needs fresh ideas to spice up the portfolio in preparation for an accreditation visit or in searching for new employment. "

Teacher Librarian

"Novices are introduced to the wide scope of considerations regarding adoption of digital portfolios. For experienced practitioners, frames and matrices help to identify their own practices in relation to those of others. "

Barbara Cambridge

"Teaches you how to build a portfolio and shows the potential benefits of the portfolio process. Qualitative research, which is essentially what portfolios lead to, is beneficial for teachers because it forces them to reflect on what actually happens in their classrooms. I can't think of a more powerful tool for learning and growth. "

Erin Powers

"Experts in the field provide educators and libraries catering to both education professionals and businesspeople with an excellent survey to creating a digital portfolio that accurately communicates professional goals and achievements. "

The Bookwatch

"Novices are introduced to the wide scope of considerations regarding adoption of digital portfolios. For experienced practitioners, frames and matrices help to identify their own practices in relation to those of others. "

From the Foreword by Barbara Cambridge