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Symposium on Electronic Portfolios
Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 19–21
This symposium will draw together several teacher education programs implementing electronic portfolios to address some key questions around implementation. For the last year, ISTE's PT3 Catalyst Grant has been providing training and technical...
Topics: Teachers, Portfolios
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Differentiating Electronic Portfolios and Online Assessment Management Systems.
Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 46–50
This paper addresses some of the issues of definition, between electronic portfolios and online assessment management systems. It is difficult to conduct comparative research on electronic portfolios because of the emergence of very diverse models...
Topics: Assessment, Portfolios
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Multiple Purposes of Digital Stories in ePortfolios
Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 880–882
The ancient art of storytelling can be a powerful tool for deep learning and reflection. Add today's multimedia technology and you have a highly motivating project-based learning activity as well as a powerful artifact in an electronic portfolio. A...
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Electronic Teaching Portfolios: Multimedia Skills + Portfolio Development = Powerful Professional Development
Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 1111–1116
Two bodies of literature define the process for developing electronic teaching portfolios to support long-term professional growth: the multimedia development process (Decide/Assess, Design/Plan, Develop, Implement, Evaluate) and the portfolio ...
Topics: Professional Development, Developmental Stages, Portfolios
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Researching and Evaluating Digital Storytelling as a Deep Learning Tool
Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 647–654
This roundtable will discuss Digital Storytelling as a tool for deep learning, and provide a framework for researching and evaluating the process. An emerging theory of storytelling as learning and reflection on practice will be discussed, as well...
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Assessing of the ISTE NETS for Teachers
Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1498–1500
Learn about performance-based strategies for demonstrating achievement of the ISTE NETS for Teachers, including web-based basic skills assessments, performance tasks, electronic portfolios, and observation tools. Preview a new publication from ISTE...
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Researching the Process and Outcomes of Electronic Portfolio Development in a Teacher Education Program
Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 15–18
This session will present the results of a preliminary study of teacher candidates' electronic portfolio development efforts, student attitudes and skills developed during the process, and some preliminary conclusions. From these efforts, a proposed ...
Topics: Students, Portfolios, Schools, Teachers
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Introduction to the ePortfolio section
Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 522–523
This is the summary of the papers I wrote.
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Symposium on Electronic Portfolios in Teacher Education, Part I
Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 51–52
This symposium will draw together several teacher education programs implementing electronic portfolios to address some key questions around implementation. For the last two years, ISTE's PT3 Catalyst Grant has been providing training and technical...
Topics: Portfolios, Teachers
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Storytelling in Higher Education: a Theory of Reflection on Practice to support Deep Learning
Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 1878–1883
This roundtable will discuss the concepts of "Electronic Portfolios as Digital Stories of Deep Learning" and "Digital Storytelling as Reflective Portfolio" by linking two dynamic processes to promote deep learning: Portfolio Development and Digital...
Topics: Portfolios
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Online Personal Learning Environments: Structuring Electronic Portfolios to Support Lifelong and Life Wide Learning
Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 8–14
This paper outlines a new vision for "online personal learning environments" which may eventually replace what we currently call "electronic portfolios" in education. Based on the concept of "lifetime personal web space," this online archive of a...
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Using Adobe Acrobat for Electronic Portfolio Development
Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 9–14
Adobe's Portable Document Format is the ideal container for electronic portfolio reflections connected to digital artifacts. This paper describes the software environment, and then describes the process for converting digital artifacts from many...
Topics: Portfolios
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ELECTRONIC TEACHING PORTFOLIOS
Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1029–1034
As we move to more standards-based teacher performance assessment, we need new tools to record and organize evidence of successful teaching, for both practicing professionals and student teachers. This session will provide an overview of different ...
Topics: Portfolios, Professional Development, Teachers
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Directions for Research and Development on Electronic Portfolios
Philip Abrami; Helen Barrett; Helen Barrett
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 31, No. 3 (Oct 15, 2005)
This lead article for the special issue of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology explores directions for research and development on electronic portfolios, which are digital containers capable of storing visual and auditory content;...
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Online Tools to Research Electronic Portfolios: The REFLECT Initiative
Risa Sackman; Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 148–152
The overarching goal of The REFLECT Initiative is to collect data and draw conclusions about the impact that developing and maintaining electronic portfolios have on secondary student learning, motivation and engagement; and how teaching practices...
Topics: Portfolios, Students, Assessment, Teachers, Professional Development
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Researching Electronic Portfolios and Learner Engagement: The REFLECT Initiative
Helen C. Barrett
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 50, No. 6 (March 2007) pp. 436–449
Theoretical background for researching student learning, engagement, and collaboration through the development of electronic portfolios is described in this article. After providing an overview of the limited research on portfolios in education, the ...
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Directions in Electronic Portfolio Development
David Gibson; Helen Barrett
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 2, No. 4 (2002) pp. 556–573
Portfolios have been around a long time. Educators used them long before the digital age, which suggests that perhaps the new media and medium of electronic portfolios, in part, can be looked at through lenses from the past. For example, in the past,...
Topics: Educational Technology, Portfolios
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Assessment and E-folios Issues
Vicki Napper; Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 39–40
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Assessing the ISTE NETS for Teachers Standards
Helen Barrett; Peggy Kelly
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 41–45
Learn about performance-based strategies for demonstrating achievement of the ISTE NETS for Teachers, including web-based basic skills assessments, performance tasks, electronic portfolios, and observation tools. Review ISTE's newest publication...
Topics: Literacy
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Directions in Electronic Portfolio Development
David Gibson; Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 58–64
This article explores the advantages and trade-offs of two paths to the development of electronic portfolios - using generic tools and using customized systems. The analysis assumes that the goal of electronic portfolios is to stay focused on the...
Topics: Portfolios
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Exploring the use of electronic portfolios in international contexts
Marja Kankaanranta; Helen Barrett; Elizabeth Hartnell-Young
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 874–876
One of the most exciting developments in the school reform movement is the use of alternative forms of assessment to evaluate student learning and teacher development. Different alternative assessment systems and forms must be judged based on the...
Topics: Interaction, Assessment, Professional Development, Portfolios, Students
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Anchorage Consortium for Technology and Teacher Training (ACT3)
Sharon Bandle; Helen Barrett; John Hart
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1609–1613
The Anchorage School District and the University of Alaska engaged in a two year process to identify teacher competencies in the area of technology, develop a set of standardized courses to provide these competencies and establish a framework of...
Topics: Competencies, Schools, Teachers
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Lessons Learned
Ann H. McCoy; Helen C. Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2029–2030
Last year our School of Education received a PT3 Capacity Building grant. This year we received a PT3 Implementation Grant to continue our work with integration of technology into our teacher preparation program. In addition, last year we received ...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology
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Researching Electronic Portfolios in Teacher Education, Part 2
Helen Barrett; Joanne Carney; Neal Strudler; Keith Wetzel
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 36–39
This symposium will draw together the current research activities of several teacher education programs implementing electronic portfolios to address some key questions around implementation. For the last three years, ISTE's PT3 Catalyst Grant has...
Topics: Portfolios, Teachers, Evaluation