Epiphany - Online Teaching Portfolio

I am sure someone out there has already thought of this but it never occured to me that my student's blog would serve as an online teaching portfolio, which of course got me started thinking - why not start an online teaching portfolio all on its own? This is particularily timely since we are being required to switch from blogger to edublogger next year and I fear loosing all my students great work that I have posted. Also, I eventually dream about teaching overseas and I thought that would be a much better way to communicate what my students have been doing over the years. Does anyone have a stand alone online teaching portfolio? Do you have the web addressed listed on a business card? Is that business card separate from your school business card?

Does anyone have any random thoughts on the subject?

Eve
www.mrsheatonsclass1.blogspot.com

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Permalink Reply by MsLisaKate on April 27, 2009 at 2:27pm

Hi there!
I actually took some time to take screenshots of my student's work and/or scan in their work and create my own online portfolio using Flickr. I also took photos of classroom activities and posted them there. It allows me to create a set of project examples and descriptions for each class and then to embed slide shows or the pix themselves into my blog. My blog is more of my sandbox, but I do feature student work on it. I know you can now include video in Flickr, so I would eventually upload my students' video projects into the account too. Finally, some of my publications (unit plans, lesson plans, etc) are on my licensure portfolio site, which I intend to move over into my blog (someday). I would consider the licensure to be an archive of my work in that program.
Blog :
http://education.lkrdesign.com/blog/
Flickr :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lkreducation/
Licensure archive:
http://education.lkrdesign.com/

I obviously bought my own brand : LKR education, which was an offshoot of my web design brand LKR design.

When I taught my students and had a class web site (full of syllabi, assignments, etc), that domain was msraddensclasses.com. So that was a separate domain from lkrdesign and lkreducation.

I hope that helps your own development : really, blogs are the way to go to keep a portfolio of your work!

Lisa