Assignment Area

e-Portfolio Development
Due Date:
e-Portfolio Website - Dec. 1
Possible
Total Points: 15 points
Directions:
In this assignment, you create a professional e-portfolio website, in which you present
information about yourself and display examples of your professional work completed in
EDN303. This assignment is intended to provide a framework within which you can add
evidences of your professional competencies and growth through the rest of your study
in Watson College of Education and later, in your teaching career.

Examples of viewers for your e-portfolio site are school principals, teachers, and other
officials in school systems or government agencies who may be involved in teacher
hiring, license renewal, or teacher evaluation decisions.

Your e-portfolio should contain 5 web pages, as described below:

1. Home page
- A single web page that requires no or minimal scrolling.
- Name the home page as Home.
- The following components must be presented on your home page:

Your name

Welcome statements (A couple of sentences)

Purpose of the web site (A couple of sentences)

A picture of you (or something represents you)

Optional: Website links to University of North Carolina Wilmington, Watson

College of Education, last update information (mm-dd-year), copyright notice,
and webmaster contact information for site visitors to ask questions about the

website. See the examples of this assignment.

Optional: UNCW logo. To download the UNCW house logos,

- Go to http://uncw.edu/licensing/uncwhouselogo.html
- Right click on the small logo images on the left column to get the small logos
(Don't click on the text links. They will download huge logos)
- Save the small logo graphic file to your local drive to be inserted or uploaded to
your e-portfolio.

2. Site Navigation Pan (Table of contents)

- It can be presented horizontally or vertically.
- It contains a set of well labeled text or buttons linking to other pages in your portfolio
website. The text or button links in navigation pan are organized into the following
order:
* Home
* About me
* Teaching philosophy
* Professional Work
* Resources
3. Content information for each page (use a separate web page to present the
following content information):

About Me
o

A brief bio or introduction about yourself

Professional goals (State your short- and long-term career goals)

Professional development plan (Provide an action plan stating what you

plan to do to achieve your professional goals. Sample actions are getting a
professional degree or license, attending conferences & workshops, joining
professional organizations or clubs, etc.

Resume (Type the content of your resume directly to the web page if your
resume is short and simple; provide a link to your resume file if your
resume is long)

Teaching philosophy
o

Write two or three paragraphs of your teaching philosophy including

your ideas, believe or philosophy about teaching in general and
about technology integration into teaching and learning in
particular.

If you have not yet had a teaching philosophy, conduct a Google search to
find the definition of teaching philosophy, then formulate your own
teaching philosophy.

Professional Work
o

Include your technology lesson plan and 3 or more other

representative assignments (artifacts) completed in this course which
support and evidence your mastery of the competencies required by
professional standards such as ISTE Technology Standards for Teachers
(ISTE-T), North Carolina K-12 Standards, Curriculum and Instruction.

For each artifact/project included, briefly describe the purpose and

content of the project and then annotate the knowledge and skill learned
from completing the project.

It's a good idea to use a table or a list to organize the information.

Resources
o

Provide a collection of technology resources such as mobile apps or

websites that are useful to teachers. At least 3 apps/sites for each of the
following categories:
- Subject content (sites/apps for teaching specific topic/content
information, providing content resources)
- Assessment aids (sites/apps for providing readily made
tests/quizzes/rubrics or providing tools/template to create assessment
items)
- Class management (sites/apps for checking attendance, record or
provide feedback to classroom behavior and performance)
- Utility (sites/apps for teacher-parent communication, providing
resources for creating instructional and presenting materials,
encyclopedia, dictionary, etc.)

For each site, make sure you include the title, url, and a brief site

description.
o

It's a good idea to use a table or a list to organize the information.

You can copy and paste the mobile apps from your research summary.

Caution:
- Start the project early because collecting the artifacts and writing the annotation for
your portfolio takes time.
- Make sure all links and multimedia work on your e-portfolio site.
- After published your e-portfolio to the web, test all your portfolio pages on different
browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google, Firefox to make sure everything works
correctly on various browsers prior to submitting your portfolio url.
NOTE: All information posted on the Web is globally viewable. So, be cautious about
posting personal information.
Submission:
Post the url of your e-Portfolio to the Blackboard Blog entitled "e-Portfolio
Showcase." The showcase provides a great opportunity for you to review, comment on,
and learn from each other's work. Your feedback will help other class peers fine-tune
their portfolio sites. Make sure your portfolio link opens in a new web browser. Here is
the instruction for posting and commenting Blackboard entries
Grading:
(25%) Completeness (meet assignment requirements)
(25%) Content information (accurate, non-biased, relevant and appropriate for the
intended audience, logically organized)
(20%) Page design (legibility of text and graphics, eye appealing, good use of space and
media)
(20%) Functionality (all links and multimedia work as the way they should)
(10%) Writing quality (no grammatical, spelling and syntax errors, easily understood)

Tutorials: You can use any web editor that you are comfortable with to create the e-Portfolio
website.

Weebly is an easy to learn and to use web editor comparing to others. So, I asked a
graduate student to create the following step-by-step tutorial videos tailored to my
assignment requirements to guide you through the website development process. I hope

you find them helpful.

1. How to Create a Weebly Account: https://youtu.be/XtLsvP8hJ94 (5:34 minutes)

2. How to Create Pages in Your E-portfolio: https://youtu.be/6Yz-l0CNJP4 (8:41
minutes)
3. How to Manipulate Content on your Web Pages:
https://youtu.be/zmovw8LWRoI (9:23 minutes)
4. How to Add New Content, Publish, & Submit:
https://youtu.be/6UvNho1d3dQ (14:58 minutes)

Additional Resources:
* Weebly 2016 - Introduction tutorial to weebly.com: Create a Free Website (18
minutes)
* Creating an online Portfolio on Weebly
* Weebly: How to Link to Documents, PDF, Powerpoint Slides, and More
* Beginner's Guide to Weebly (55 minutes)
Samples:
I don't have a sample e-Portfolio site created in Weebly. The following sites were created
by my former students in face-to-face classes using Google sites or Wix tools.
Foster

Forbes

Fino

Caldwell

Celender (Wix)

University of North Carolina, Watson School of Education

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