3. What is an artifact? Artifact –an item that the candidate creates to demonstrate knowledge, dispositions, and performances acquired within a particular course or experience.
5. As one of the projects for the practicum I had to create a WordPress manual to supplement the current e-Portfolio. I had done some technical writing in the past although with very little guidance. Completing the manual was an exercise in trial and error. How could I write a manual that the teacher candidates could easily follow? I began by only describing paths and instructions: To Write a Page: Dashboard>Write>Write Page Click on the write and then write page tabs. A page view will appear. Fill in the title and the page content in the visual editor. Click save. However after exploring examples of instructional manuals I realized I needed to also present the information visually. I asked around at work and figured out how to use Alt Print Screen to print screens. Then I opened them in paint and used the paintbrush tool to describe the process. The quality of these images really lacked. Here is an example:.
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