Creating a professional portfolio to showcasing more than your teaching abilities. Your teaching is an extensive of the creative, passionate you.

1. The Teaching Portfolio
Mapping your impact as an educator

2. At the end of this workshop you will be able to
• identify uses of portfolios for your own professional use and use in the
classroom by designing and developing your own.
• begin to design and develop your own professional profile portfolios with
the tool of your choice.
• create your professional brand with a logo and power sentence (tagline) for
your portfolio.
• grow a grassroots Portfolio and Digital Media Community of Practice at
your university.

3. What’s the difference between a
professional website and an ePortfolio?
A collection of purposefully organized artifacts that support retrospective and prospective
reflection to document, augment, and assess growth over time.
-Dr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University
Design Thinking – Stanford dSchool – dschool.standford.edu

4. Applying what we learn in the
classroom to real world experiences in our lives.
Design Thinking – Stanford dSchool – dschool.standford.edu
EMPATHY

5. Documenting You for You

6. Portfolio Success

8. Uses for a Teaching ePortfolio
Scaffolding and Connecting Innovations in Teaching and Learning
• Your own virtual makersplace for building learning experiences (think tank)
• Self-reflection designed to enhance your teaching (growth)
• Document your effectiveness as a teacher (organize and connect your materials)
• Enable you to strengthen the relationship between your teaching and research
• Supporting evidence of your professional expertise (tenure and promotion)
• A developing draft document that helps beginning faculty clarify the whys and hows of your teaching
• Repository of learning and topic specific resources
• Connection with your students
• A legacy for your department
• A legacy for you

9. Include the Student Perspective
Forget devices, the future of education
technology is all about the cloud and anywhere
access. In the future, teaching and learning is
going to be social.
Matt Britland , The Guardian, 19 June 2013, retrieved from
http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/jun/19/technology-future-education-cloud-
social-learning

10. Examples
• Blogfolio – liftinglearning.com, Nancy Wozniak
• Writing and Digital Media Teaching Portfolio – Cynthia Davidson
• Writing for the New Media Course – Cynthia Davidson’s Course Portfolio
• Standouts – Nancy Wozniak Instructional Design and Teaching Showcase
• Performance – Rachel Koeth
• For more see Spotlight on ePortfolios at Stony Brook University
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11. Components of a Teaching Portfolio
A lifelong digital footprint of you
(use multimedia to visual represent your artifacts)
• Documentation of Your Teaching
• Professional Development
• Teaching Effectiveness
• Materials Demonstrating Student Learning
• Activities to Improve Instruction
• Contributions to the Teaching Profession
• Articles and Presentations
• Honors, Awards, and Recognitions
• Recommendations from students or positive course evaluations
• Campus Involvement, Community Service, Personal Interests

12. The sentences are personal brands. From one sentence, we form a first
impression of the person. What was your favorite sentence in this video and
what impression did you form of that person?
Dan Pink’s What’s Your Sentence?

13. What’s your sentence?
Compose your own power sentence that represents your professional strength...one simple catch phrase
based on what you stand for and what's important to you. Make it your brand, your tagline, and add it to
your Welcome Page with your logo. Ask yourself, "100 years from now, in one sentence, how would I want
people to describe me?"
Next, put it in an active, present tense and add your logo (brand identity)
Example
He was a committed activist who was instrumental in changing the erratic driving behaviors
on Long Island.
Now change it to the present tense.
I am a committed activist who has been instrumental in changing the erratic driving behaviors
on Long Island.

14. Logo – Your Professional Brand
wordle at wordle.net

15. Just the Facts
• Create an About Me page or section in your portfolio
• bullet point or number 5 facts that reflect your strength of character,
passion, achievements, interests, mission and/or goals.
• Vary the 5 facts to cover different areas of your life.
• Document your holistic self. You don't have to reveal too much about
yourself. Keep it generic and creative.
• Include multimedia. Make it visual.
Vishwaja Muppa - https://stonybrook.digication.com/vishwaja_muppa/About_Me

16. Educational Philosophy and Teaching Goals
Your Thoughts About Teaching
• A reflective “teaching statement” describing your personal teaching
philosophy, strategies, and objectives
• A personal statement describing your teaching goals for the next few years
• Strategies and future plans for personal, teaching, and course development

17. Why do you teach?
• Tell a story.
• Use an image to frame your passion for learning?
• Work towards presenting it in a digital story.
Nancy Wozniak’s Discovery Story-
Why I teach.