week13_evening

11/19/10 Hi Evening Students, As you view today’s PowerPoint, here are some notes to help you make sense of them—especially regarding these 3 assignments. As always, please ask if there is something you aren’t sure of! Dr. Pierson


 * Portfolio:** I announced in class that I am not going to require you to complete the Reflective Portfolio assignment. I talked a while in class about how teachers need to think about what is the best use of your time—balancing work load with what value comes from that work. I’ve recently come to the decision that the value in reflection comes in the group discussion that students did in class, and that I’m asking you to do at your last PLC meeting. Please use this working page [[file:portfolio artifact selection page-PPR (11-09).pdf]] to categorize all of the PPR domains and competencies. Think of everything you have done this semester—assignments, lesson plans, parent meetings—everything. Work as a group to categorize everything you remember doing. The assignment that I am no longer requiring is the Reflective Portfolio—which would have required you to upload these assignments and write a written reflection for each (you WILL still do the portfolio presentation pages--described next). Since I am no longer requiring you to do this, make your in-person reflections meaningful. You are trying to demonstrate what you have learned this semester!


 * Portfolio presentation:** Here is the description on our Assignments Page for the Portfolio Presentation for evening students. “ You will not present your portfolio in person. You will create a "virtual" presentation by recording an audio presentation of your portfolio. There are a couple of ways you might accomplish this. You could use use an audio-recording software (something free, like Audacity, which you can easily Google and download!) to record your voice presenting, and you could upload that audio file to your presentation cover page. OR, you could arrange your portfolio presentation in a PowerPoint presentation, and use the voice recording feature within PowerPoint to record your voice for each slide. Ask for help as needed once we get to that point in the semester.” What is required is a 5-minute presentation arranged according to the 4 PPR domains. You will create some very simple webpages with just a couple of pictures and some titles or brief text as a visual to support your recorded voice. You can see the example here: [] and in today’s PowerPoint, there are links to some examples from previous semesters (I mentioned in class that these examples were from a semester before we used the PPR domains, so the actual 4 items on the examples look a bit different than yours.) So, look at the examples and let me know what questions you have when you go to record these.


 * Symposium:** Again, from our Assignment page: Rather than creating a tri-fold poster for the Teacher Research Symposium, you will write a 4-5 page paper with the same headings that are listed on the Research Guide . . .” at the bottom of the Assignment rubric here: []