Portfolio Resources

These are the official resources for the SOE Portfolio. Be careful: you may find other resources in other places. Those resources may be out-of-date or incorrect.

• Live Help
• SOE Tutorials & Advice
• UWSP Tutorials & Advice
• Templates
• Performance Tasks
• Artifact Cover Page
• Software
• About SOE Portfolios
• Version Tracking

See also: Course-Standard Matrices

Live Help

There are several places to get help with your portfolio. All are free, optional, and friendly. Be careful: it can be hard to get help near the end of the semester, when these places get overwhelmed with students.

• SOE Portfolio Studio
  • CPS 105
  • Thursdays, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm; Weeks 4 - 15 (Fall & Spring)
  • Drop-in lab for all SOE students & graduates, especially students in EDUC 200, EDUC 300, & EDUC 400
  • Get help with the technical, design, &/or content/composition problems
• IT Help Desk
  • LRC (Library) 023
  • See website for hours, phone, & email
  • Get help with small problems, especially technical problems (e.g., MyFiles)
  • See also: the lab assistant in any public computer lab
• Computer Guides
  • LRC (Library) 018
  • See website for hours & phone
  • Get help with big problems, especially design &/or composition problems (e.g., writing, visual format)
• Instructors
  • Kym Buchanan, EDUC 200
  • Ahmad Sultan, EDUC 300
  • Larry Riggs, IRES 331
  • Pat Marinac, EDUC 400

SOE Tutorials & Advice

• About the List of Student Webpages
• Composing a Website: advice about the non-technical part of a website
• Dreamweaver Basics: a guide to the basic features
• EDUC 200 Checklist & Tip Sheet
• Miscellaneous Tips & Information
• Succesful Habits: do's & don'ts to avoid pain
• What's a Webpage?: a very basic introduction
• Web Composing: Concepts, Skills, Applied Uses: an outline

UWSP Tutorials & Advice

I have checked these resources, so I recommend them.

• Accessing the Remote Computer Lab
  • This gives you access to useful programs from off campus
  • Last checked 8-Apr-08
• Create a CD Using Windows XP
  • Remember: you submit your portfolio on CD
  • Last checked 1/22/07
  • See also: Create a CD Using Nero , Erasing a CD Using Windows XP
• Compress Pictures in Office
  • How to reduce the size of Word or PowerPoint files
  • Remember: you should convert Word or PowerPoint files to PDFs
  • Last checked 1/22/07
• MyFiles FAQs & Tutorials
  • How to access and manage the guts of your website
  • Last checked 8-Apr-08
• Naming Web Files
  • Very, very important
  • Last checked 1/22/07

The helpful, talented staff at UWSP Information Technology created most of those resources, and more . We can request other tutorials, so please tell me (or them) how helpful these are, and what else you could use.

Templates

• Outer Index: If you don't have an index.hm page in inetpub, you should add this page. It includes a link to index.htm in soeportfolio.
• soeportfolio.zip: a compressed file with all the pages and images below
• Pages
  • 0_who_is.htm
  • 1_introduction.htm
  • 2_teaching_philosophy.htm
  • 3_subject_knowledge.htm
  • 4_instructional_strategies.htm
  • 5_assessment.htm
  • 6_adaptive_instruction.htm
  • 7_credentials.htm
  • index.htm
  • artifact_cover_page.htm
  • general_style.css
  • teacher_standards.htm
• Images
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Performance Tasks

• Communicative Disorders Education
• Early Childhood Education
• Elementary Education
• English Education
• Environmental Education (Minor Only)
• Exceptional Education
• Family and Consumer Education
• Foreign Language Education
• Health Education (Minor Only)
• Math Education
• Music Education
• Physical Education
• Science Education
• Social Science Education
• Teaching English as a Second Language

Artifact Cover Page

All students are encouraged to add cover pages to their artifacts. If you took EDUC 200 before Summer 2008, you aren't required to add cover pages. However, an instructor may require them.

• Artifact Cover Page
  • To save a copy, right-click and choose "Save Link As..." or "Save Target As..."
• Sample Artifact

Software

• OpenOffice.org
  • Free
  • Compatible with MS Office; I use the Draw tool to create original images for my website
• Wisdomsoft ScreenHunter Free
  • Free
  • I use this program to capture exactly the images I want from programs like OpenOffice.org

About SOE Portfolios

The UWSP Professional Portfolio templates aligns with the Department of Public Instruction PI 34 Rules related to teacher preparation and teacher licensure.  The portfolio templates have been created to showcase each student's work as related to the Wisconsin Teaching Standards and to serve as a tool in the career search process. The templates have been designed so that they may also be useful also to Initial Educators as they are developing Professional Development Plans and evidence related to Wisconsin and National Teaching Standards.

Version Tracking

This is a list of major changes to the SOE Portfolio Framework, since Kym Buchanan took over managing the framework.

2007-B

• Released June 5, 2007
• Used by EDUC 200, Summer, 2007
• Added version tracking to page comments ("2007-B")
• Added ALT info to official images
• Added _images folder, with official subfolder
• PortfolioTitle.gif edited to serve as initial breadcrumb (right side is now an arrowhead)
• Added general_style.css and offloaded most in-page formatting to this external style sheet
• Removed all table-based alignment & position hacks; pages are now default-aligned (i.e., left-justifed)
• Added teacher_standards.htm to framework, with link from Instructional Strategies
• Added link from Subject Knowledge directly to DPI website

2007-A

• Released January 22, 2007; Revised February 20, 2007
• Used by EDUC 200, Spring, 2007
• Added page comments before <HEAD>, including official language and contact information
• General cleanup and formatting of code