Journal Entry 11

Journal Entry- Chapter 11

Engaging Teachers and Students in Learning and Self-Reflection

Focus Question#2: How can Students and Teachers use digital portfolios as tools for learning?

A digital portfolio is a collection of educational materials stored in an electronic format. This is especially useful for teachers and students to use as a goal oriented collection of knowledge. Teachers and students can upload projects, papers, multimedia, etc… to their portfolio to reflect on what knowledge they have obtained or to share their knowledge with others in an easy portable way. Digital portfolios are also a public writing in which is created by the individual. This tool is used for learning about the creator.

This is a good way for the creator to incorporate lesson plans, assessments, and other professional achievements that may assist in a future teaching certification.

Tech Tool  11.2

Online Survey Building Resources

This tech tool resource describes three commonly used ways to collect data from groups. Zoomerang and Survey Monkey both have templates and themes to organize and formulate your questions that you would like the data collection on. I have used Survey Monkey before and have found it to be a very easy way to gather information from selected groups. I created the survey and emailed it to my audience. After they responded Survey Monkey generated the results. This tech tool also discussed Poll Builder. Poll Builder is good for quick information but doesn’t offer the same formats or detailed questions as the other two. Poll Builder would be good to use during a lesson for fast feedback from the students.

Summary

I found this chapter to be very useful for a new teacher. I am excited to continue building my digital portfolio. I will use it to share with professionals throughout my career. I especially like that it can be updated and modified as time permits.

Also within this chapter I learned about many other technology tools that can enhance both my learning and the children’s learning. Provided the funding is available these tools would be a great additional learning component. Student participation systems, polls, and surveys would help guide my teaching performance.

 

Resources:
Franklin, T., Duran, M. & Kariuki, M. (2001). Mentoring Overcomes Barriers to Technology Integration. In J. Price et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (pp. 848-849). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Maloy, R. W., Verock-O, R. E., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2010). Transforming learning with new technologies. Allyn & Bacon.