Bonnie Reimann
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AAHPERD 2012 - HEDIR Technology Seminar
Boston, MA
Bonnie Reimann, Joyce Aarsvold, and Olivia Warren
Session Description: Are you interested in designing an ePortfolio as both a marketing and assessment tool?
The ePortfolio can showcase a student's abilities as an educator, writer, and professional. It can also be linked specifically to departmental goals and outcomes as well as competencies for preparation of teacher education majors within Health and Physical Education. This session provides the opportunity to learn more about the ePortfolio and to see examples of Artifacts, Descriptions, and Reflections.
Extended Description/Program Objectives: The ePortfolio can showcase a student's abilities and quality of work, and it can also be linked specifically to departmental goals and outcomes as well as NASPE and AAHE Standards and Elements. In this session, we discussed the use of Google Sites as the foundation for ePortfolio design and development. Logistics and examples of required Artifacts or assignments, and detailed Descriptions and Reflections, will be shared with conference attendees. This ePortfolio at our institution has evolved over ten years and during this past year, faculty connected each Artifact to a specific course required for majors in Physical Education and Health Education.
During Sophomore year, students develop the ePortfolio in a course titled, Information Literacy in Health and Physical Education, and they learn more about teaching with technology. As they complete all other required courses, students gradually develop required components within the ePortfolio. Two senior level courses have been designated as checkpoints for monitoring progress and providing feedback on the elements within the ePortfolio. Because this assessment tool is a graduation requirement for our majors, faculty work closely together with students. The culminating experience is an oral defense of the ePortfolio that includes application of rubrics.
Students value this experience and the interaction with departmental faculty. In exit interviews students emphasize the importance of the ePortfolio as a means to market their skills and abilities. As a department, the ePortfolio has become the primary assessment tool for accreditation and determining program effectiveness.
This session will address logistics, and offer attendees examples of artifacts and descriptions/reflections. Everything related to the portfolio is online and readily available for use by participants. If you wish to review requirements for the portfolio please feel free to visit this web site: