REFLECTING ON PROGRESS……….

Digital Portfolios

We hope that through this portfolio process you will better

understand the way that you personally learn and grow.

Armed with this understanding you will be able to face

challenges in your academic, athletic, artistic and personal life

with a new kind of confidence.

Why Digital ?

Buffalo Seminary has made a commitment to integrate technology into the fabric of the school.

Through this ongoing portfolio project, you will gain technology skills that are a necessary part of your well-rounded Sem education.

•Digital organization•Scanning•Uploading files•Hyperlinking•Creating .pdf files•Cloud computing•Creating and editing images, video and audio files•Copyright laws and Creative commons

Applications

VOICETHREADA VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

Each page of your Voicethread portfolio will focus on a particular event or idea that is worthy of your reflection and evaluation. These topics will be explained in detail during your advisory periods.

Each Voicethread page will include a visual element as well as the reflection.

The visual element could include (but is not limited to) one of the following:

• one page of a scanned document• one page of an electronic document • A personal photograph• An image from the Internet that can be legally used• A video that you created• A slide show that you created• An original work of art

Please be as creative and individual as you can.

Ideas for representing Mid Summer Night’s Dream

Getting Started

http://voicethread.com

Use your Sem E-mail addressYour password is your student

ID#

The Voicethread Enviroment

3 tabs

Browse lets you search through Voicethreads that others have made if they are set to be public

Create is the tab that you will use to make your own Voicethreads

MyVoice is the tab that holds links to your Voicethreads and to ones created by others that you have selected as a favorite.

Navigate your own computer for a file to upload:

• Most image formats• Some video (flv is the best)• MS Word• MS Excel• PDF documents (the best)

We are going to learn to

create .PDF files from our

existing documents

Use images from an existing Voicethread

Import photos from Flickr

Use your facebook photos

Choose images from an extensive digital collection hosted by the NY public library

•All images used must be public domain or legally attributed

Many images on the web allow you to right click on them and copy the image URL

Your reflection will be recorded or typed.

You can doodle on the image as you add your comment (reflection)

For any multi-page paper or project that you choose to put in your portfolio, you should display only one page in Voicethread.

It is important, however, for anyone viewing your portfolio to be able to see the entire paper or project.

In order to satisfy both of these requirements, you will upload the complete document to Google Docs.

You will publish the document and copy the URL so that you can put a hyperlink on the corresponding Voicethread page.

In computing, a hyperlink is a reference in a document to an external or internal piece of information. The most common usage is in the Internet to browse through web pages: some text in the current document is highlighted so that when clicked, the browser automatically displays another page or changes the current page to show the referenced content.

What is a HYPERLINK ?Definition from WIKIPEDIA -

Usually a word that is the hyperlink is underlined and a different color so that you know you can click on it and it will open up another web page.

Tim Berners-Lee who is credited with the invention of the World Wide Web, saw the potential for easily accessing information by clicking on a word or image to get or go to additional information on a topic.

In order to create a hyperlink to another webpage, you must have the URL of that webpage.

Remember that the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the address of the webpage.

For more information about this, please click here

Here is that other webpage with the information you were looking for

www.otherpage.com

Store documents online and access them from any computer.

Get to Google Docs from your SEM E-Mail account

Click “upload”

“Choose file” will allow you to navigate to your document.

Click “Upload” after you have chosen the file.

Then click “back to Google Docs”

Once your document has been uploaded to Google Docs, Choose SHARE PUBLISH AS A WEB PAGE

Here is your URL to copy

Paste your URL here to create your Voicethread hyperlink