My Professional Portfolio Companion DVD Help

Welcome to the companion DVD for Instructional Technology and Media for Learning, 9th Edition. This DVD contains many resources to aid you in developing your own ASSURE lesson plans. The My Professional Portfolio application allows you to create lesson plans, assess them, and create portfolios of your lessons that can be submitted for class projects or included with job applications. PC Users will be prompted to enter a username when accessing the database. Enter a username of your choosing or leave the field blank. Users will be able to enter the database regardless of whether or not they have entered a username.

View a sortable list of your Lesson Plans Find specific Lesson Plans Print Lesson Plan lists or full details

Lesson Assessments Assess the implementation of your Lesson Plans Apply the NETS-S and Curriculum Standards that were met during the implementation of the Lesson Plan Store student artifacts along with the assessment record Complete Selection Rubric Evaluations of the media and materials used Print Selection Rubric Evaluations Print Lesson Assessment Lists or full details

What can I do with the My Professional Portfolio Database?

My Info Enter your contact information Include a picture of yourself Lesson Plans Create new ASSURE Lesson Plans Apply pre-loaded NETS-S and Standards to your Lesson Plans Setup and Apply Curriculum Standards to your Lesson Plans

Portfolios Create Portfolios for class projects or to submit with job applications Add Lesson Plans to your portfolios Customize your personal information for each portfolio Print all of the lessons in a portfolio

Print Wizard Choose Lesson Plans to print based on Subject, Standards or Portfolio

Getting Started
Basic database glossary The system will be even easier to use if you understand a few simple terms that describe how a database works. record: Each item in a database is a record. So in the Lesson Plans, each Lesson Plan is a record. Similarly, each Portfolio is a record. field: A database field contains descriptive information about the record, also knows as attributes of the record. For example, a Lesson Plan record has fields such as Title, Creation Date, Subject, Grade Level, etc. find: Find is another term for a search or query; you tell the database what kind of information you want to find, and it finds the set of records that match your request. portal: A portal is an element that is used to hold lists of records. For example, the Objectives for a Lesson Plan are contained in a portal so that you can keep them separate and add or delete individual Objectives. You can recognize a portal in the database by the alternating background. found set: A found set is the set of records currently active in the database as you work with it. The found set is the set of records showing on screen at a given time. By default, the found set in a particular area is all of the records of a particular type (in the Lesson Plans area, it would be all the Lesson Plan

records existing in the system). This is how youll find the system each time you open it. You can change the found set as you work by using the Find tool. sort - The different list layouts in the system have a default sort associated with them. You can make the records in the Lesson Plans list and Portfolios list sort into more useful orders with the sorting tools. Look for column headings that are underlined; these can be clicked to sort the list by that columns values. If you click the Title column, the list will sort by the Lesson or Portfolio title. If you click the Subject column, the list will sort by Subject.

How to get around The Home screen features some quick link buttons that you can use to jump to specific areas of the database.

Also, the Home, Help and detail screens feature a side navigation bar with links to the sections of the database. If you click on the Lesson Plans, Lesson Assessments or Portfolios buttons, you will be taken to a list of those respective items. By default, these lists are sorted by title and contain all records of that type (i.e. all Lesson Plans). You can narrow the list by using the Find function on the Lesson Plan and Lesson Assessment lists. See the section covering finds below. Click on any item in the list to view its full details. An overview of the ASSURE model for Lesson Planning is provided on the Home page of the database. Simply click on the tabs to read a description of each component of the model. My Info The first step is to enter your personal information. Click on the My Info button and fill in the fields. You can add a photo of yourself by clicking the Upload Photo button. You will be asked to locate the picture file to upload. Just navigate to the file and click OK. You can change the photo at any time by clicking the Upload Photo button again.

Lesson Plans When you click the My Lesson Plans button you are taken to the Lesson Plan list view. To create a new Lesson Plan, simply click the New Lesson button. You will be taken to the Lesson Plan detail screen where you can enter all of your Lesson Plan information. There are fields for basic information at the top of the screen; the ASSURE model component information is located on the tabs on the lower portion of the screen. Some of the information such as Objectives, Media, Materials and Standards allow you to enter several items into a portal. Most of the time, you can add one item at a time to a portal. In the case of Standards, however, you are allowed to select several items to add at one time. If you add something and later decide that do not need it, you can always delete the item by clicking on the red x to the right of the item.

Selecting Standards: The system is pre-loaded with the NETS-S standards that are current as of the publication date. Simply click the Add button above the NETS-S Standards portal and select the applicable standards by clicking the checkbox(s) next to the standard. When you click the Submit button, the selected Standards will be applied to your Lesson. When you click the Add button above the Curriculum Standards portal, you will see a list of those standards you have already set up. If no Curriculum Standards have been set up, this list will be blank. Click the Setup Standards button on the Standards tab. You will be taken to a list of Standards Sets, which is initially empty.

To set up new Standards, begin by clicking on the New Set button and you will be taken to a screen where you can set up your Standards Sets. You will be taken to the Standards Set Detail screen where you can enter the Standards Set Name (i.e. High School English) and a description where you can record the formal name of the Standards Set

To add standards to your new Standards Set, click the Add button above the portal on the Standards Set Detail screen. A window will pop up where you can enter the specific text of the standard. For your convenience, a List of weblinks is available if you click the Show/Hide Weblinks to Standards button. Click on the web address you would like to open and it will open the website in your browser. You will need to copy and paste the text of the standard into the fields. Click Submit when you are finished, and your new standard will appear in the portal. Click the Back to Lesson Plan button in the upper right-hand corner of the screen to return to the lesson plan you were working with.

Lesson Assessments After implementing one of your Lesson Plans, you can use the fields in the Lesson Assessment section to evaluate your implementation of the Lesson Plan. Click the Create Assessment button when you are on the Lesson Plan detail screen to begin entering your assessment data. Once an assessment has been created, the button on the Lesson Plan screen will read Show Assessment. You can also access a list of Assessments by clicking on the Lesson Assessments button on the side or top navigation bars.

had previously set up (if any). Adding new Standards follows the same procedure as described above, in the Lesson Plan section. The third tab features a list of artifacts from the Lesson Plan implementation. You can store almost any type of file here, including, but not limited to: pictures, word processing documents, spreadsheets, powerpoint presentations, sound clips and movies. Click the Add button to attach a new artifact. You will be taken to a screen where you can enter information about the document. Click the Upload File button to attach a file.

The first tab of the Lesson Assessment detail contains general information about the implementation of the Lesson Plan, such as the date it was implemented and the school where it was implemented. The second tab is for selecting the standards that were met during the implementation of the Lesson Plan. These may or may not be the same as those you selected when planning the lesson, so initially these lists will be blank. The NETS-S Standards operate the same way they do in the Lesson Plan section of the database. When you click the Add button above the Curriculum Standards you will see a list of the standards you

The final tab of the Lesson Assessments section contains a listing of Rubric Evaluations. When you click the Add button, you will be asked to select the type of Rubric you wish to use; For example, if you are evaluating a computer game, you would choose Simulations and Games. Once you have selected the Rubric Type, the Rubric Evaluation screen will appear. The Overview tab has two sections: General Criteria and Additional Criteria. Fill in the fields that apply to your evaluation. It is OK to leave the nonapplicable fields blank. The Ratings tab allows you to evaluate certain aspects of the material.

Portfolios You can set up Portfolios to submit for class projects and along with job applications. Clicking on the Portfolios button on the side or top navigation bar will take you to a list of your Portfolios. To create a new Portfolio, click on the New Portfolio button. The Portfolios screen has two tabs. The first contains general information, some of which is prepopulated from the information you entered in the My Information section. You can customize this information for the current portfolio; it will not change the information stored under My Information. Under the second tab, you can add Lesson Plans to the Portfolio. When you click on the Add button you will see a popup window listing all of your Lesson Plans. You can select as many Lessons as you would like and add them all at once to your Portfolio. If you decide that you would like to remove a particular lesson, simply click on the red x.

Working with List Views

Sorting List Views You can sort the list view by any of the underlined headings. Just click the heading and the list will sort accordingly. Finding Records The Lesson Plan and Lesson Assessment lists include a Find tool. Clicking on this button will bring up a popup window with fields where you can enter your search criteria. You can search on any of the fields; you can type in entire words or phrases, or just a few letters, and you do not have to fill in all of the fields. Click on the Search button to see a list of the records matching your search criteria.

Printing
Printing Lists of Records Once you have a list of records you want to print, simply click the Print This List button to print it to your printer. Printing Lesson Plans You can print a Lesson Plan from the detail screen. The printed Lesson Plan will contain all of the information about the Plan, including your Objectives, Media, Materials, Standards used, etc. The Lesson Plan printout will likely span several pages. Printing Lesson Assessments Lesson Assessments print all of the information contained in your Lesson Assessment. You will be asked whether you want to print the Rubric Evaluations in list or detail view. If you choose detail view, be advised that the Rubric Evaluation printouts are each two pages long. Printing Portfolios When you are on the Portfolio Detail screen, you can choose to print all of the Lesson Plans in that Portfolio. The printout will contain full Lesson Plan details as described above under Printing Lesson Plans. Creation PDFs When printing, you will be given the option of either printing to paper or to a PDF file. To create a PDF, choose the PDF option, then specify a name for your file when prompted. The file will be saved to your desktop.

Print Wizard A Print Wizard is included in the database to help you find sets of Lesson Plans to print. When you click the Print Wizard button you will be asked how to find Lesson Plans: by Subject, by Standards or by Portfolio. If you choose by Subject or Standard, you will be presented with a list of Subjects or Standards. Click on the Subjects/Standards you want to print. If you chose to find Lessons by Portfolio, a list of portfolios will be presented. You may select only one Portfolio. When you click Continue, a list of the Lesson Plans that match your criteria will be presented. You can omit Lesson Plans you do not wish to print from this list. When you click continue, you will be asked if you would like to print Lesson Plan details or just a list Lesson Plans. Click Continue after making your selection to print the Lesson Plans.