Digital Portfolios

Standards

Digital Portfolios: Teacher's Overview

Summary

Below are the anticipated outcomes of the Digital Portfolio training sessions. They are based on the New Mexico's Standards and Benchmarks, the National Educational Technology Standards, and the New Mexico Teacher Competencies.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, the learner will:

Understand and be able to apply the guidelines of the three basic components of portfolio products
Have reviewed or learned some basic technology skills
Be able to apply these guidelines and skills to digital portfolios
Capture an image using a digital camera
Employ digital-photography software to download, edit and produce digital images
Use a scanner and accompanying software to digitize printed images
Translate back and forth between graphic file formats
Access Web-based graphic libraries, site-design references, and other graphic design resources

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Content Standards and Benchmarks

National Educational Technology Standards

1) Basic operations and concepts
2) Social, ethical, and human issues
3) Technology productivity tools
4) Technology communications tools
5) Technology research tools

New Mexico's Standards and Benchmarks

Language Arts
1) Students will understand and use language arts for communication
3) Students will listen and read for a variety of purposes
4) Students will use a variety of listening and reading strategies appropriately
5) Students will speak clearly and write effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes
6) Students will speak and write clearly. Effectively, and correctly
7) Students will respond personally, analytically, and critically to written and spoken language, and other media.
9) Students will use language and literature to gain insight into their own and other's lives, and to build understanding of the moral and aesthetic dimensions of human experience.
10) Students will use state-of-the-art computer and technology to gather, use and synthesize and to create and communicate knowledge.

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This module created by Marjorie Sharp, Margaret Hoskins, Julia Parra, Fred Lackey, Smith Frederick, and Kd D'Port, RETA instructors; Sharon Dogruel, RETA coordinator.