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Professional Portfolio

Purpose of the Professional Portfolio

To showcase your student teaching work;

Primarily your teaching philosophy and impact study

Format of the PortfolioAn electronic format

using GoogleSites and a CD

Getting Started with

sites.google.com1) Search “googlesites”

3) If you do not have an account, “Sign up for Sites”

2) If you have an account, sign in

Click “Create new site”

Question: I have other GoogleSites; can I

set up another one? Yes, you can have 5

separate GoogleSites

Click“Browse the gallery for more” to find the EDCI550 template

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3) Double click option, “Teaching Portfolio”

4) Click “Select”

1) Type “EDCI550” in search field

2) Click “Search”

Your template is now in your list and is highlighted

1) Name your Site “’Your Name’ Portfolio”

Ignore “URL”, “Choose Theme”, and “More Options” for now

3) Click “Create Site”

2) Type Code as Shown

URL = Your Portfolio’s Address

Page you are working on or viewing

Portfolio Pages – Click on a link to go to a page

Instructions for each page. You will delete this text and add your own

“Create page” or “Edit page”

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Submit your Portfolio URL to your Supervisor

Note: To add information to any page you MUST be logged into googlesites and you MUST click on Edit page

1) Logged in

2) Edit Page

2) Delete text in text box and add your own by either typing in this text box or copying text from a word processing document, such as Microsoft Word, and pasting it into the text box.

3) After you add text you can format using the format tools

1) Click on “Edit page”.

Note: Do not format your text in your word processor, instead format in Googlesites

Text box

4) When you are finished, click “Save”

Steps1) Edit page2) Add Text3) Format text4) Save page

1) Click on “Insert”

2) Click on “Image”

3) Click on “Upload Image”

4) “Browse” on your computer5) After you select, click “OK”

After any change to a page or going to another page you must “Save”

1) Highlight text or object (image) you want to link

2) Click the “Link” button

Continue

1) Select “Web address”

2) Paste or type address

3) Click “OK”

3)Click OK

2b)Or, select from list

Link to a page on your site: Search for your page on your site

2a) Click “Search Pages”

1) Select “Existing page”

Link to a page on the Web

When finished creating your Site…

Once you are finished creating your GoogleSites, you will next download your work to your computer

desktop so you can save it to a CD

First Step

1) Right click on desktop

3) Select “Folder”

2) Select “New”

Create a folder on your computer desktop to save your Portfolio into

Name Folder

Rename a folder by right clicking on the folder and selecting “rename”

Name a Folder

Type name

Rename

Name your folder something that your University Supervisor will understand and will be able to immediately recognize as yours

Second Step

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Download this special software onto your computer to download your Web portfolio

Click on “Featured Downloads”

ContinuedImportant Note

In the Computer Lab Select “Open With”

Select OK

Note: At home you can select “Save File”

Important

1) Fill in Required Fields – “Host”, “Webspace” and googlesites “Username” and “Password”

2) Choose Target Directory –this is the folder that you created earlier

After you select your “Target Directory” or Desktop folder, click “Open”

Web space is the last part of your URL

3) Click “Export”

Steps1) Type required fields

a) Hostb) Webspacec) Username d) Password

2) Choose Target Directory3) Export

After it has downloaded, Click “Done”

This software will download all attachments (word documents, images, pdfs) and Web pages from your site

All files within your GoogleSites Portfolio downloaded to your desktop

Writing Files to a CD-RW

Or, saving your Portfolio to a CD, write)-be RW (readmustwhich

1) Insert CD-RW into your computer

2) Select “Open Writable CD Folder”

3) Select “OK”

4) Drag your Portfolio folder on your desktop to the CD window

CD Window

Folder and contents will move to CD

You are ready to write your files to your CD-RW

Select, “Write these files to CD”

Turn your finished CD into your University Supervisor

Congratulations! You did it.