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No Rough Waters Ahead:

Using e-Portfolios and Web 2.0 Technology Tools to Reach Students

Janice W. ButlerUniversity of Texas at Brownsville

• What is the biggest challenge you face with your students who are sent to alternative programs or suspended from school?

• Text @wif16899 + your message to 87884

• http://flash.locamoda.com/wiffiti.com/cloud/cataclysm.swf?id=16899&title=1

Solution

• Maintain connection • Elaborate on assignments • Continue group activities• Provide feedback• Evaluate progress• Monitor involvement

Who?

• Students who cannot attend regular class sessions in person.

What?

Lost work!!!

How?

Where?

Online

What is Wiki?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Why Pbworks?

• Easy to use• Examples – butleratutb.pbworks.com• Abundance of support• Multiple levels of access• Can’t be destroyed• Everything is “tracked” through history

Individual e-Portfolio

• http://andrewdeerfield.pbworks.com/

E-Portfolio templates

• http://mastertt.pbworks.com/

• http://mastertt.pbworks.com/Step-by-Step+Directions+for+ePortfolio

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