No Rough Waters Ahead

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No Rough Waters provides rationale for using online e-Portfolios for reaching out to students who are in an alternative setting - such as alternative centers, "boot camps" or out of school suspension. Using PBworks has been effective for maintaining connections and providing support to students who are not currently in your classroom.

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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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