ENGINEERING NOTEBOOKS,

PORTFOLIOS AND EPORTFOLIOS

By Janet Lopez

OUR JOURNEY

Engineering notebooks Use, construction, no-no’s, grading, best practices

PortfoliosDefinition, hard copy vs e-portfolios, Items to include, grading, best practices

ENGINEERING NOTEBOOK

Engineering Notebooks exist for one reason: Documentation of all work to substantiate originality of design, idea or process.

In my classroom, the engineering notebook also serves as a notebook to record class notes and vocabulary in addition to design documentation.

ENGINEERING NOTEBOOK CONSTRUCTION Content: Title pageTable of contentsChronological entriesIncludes sketches, notes, calculations, brainstorming, designs (initial, changes, final), team information, pictures, etc.

Expert contacts

These are a Must:Every page numbered sequentially

Two dated signatures on each page - authors and witness

Include the words Proprietary Information on each page

ENGINEERING NOTEBOOK NO-NO’SNo empty pagesNo white spaces (general rule – no more than 4 lines of unused paper)

No pages unnumberedNo missing pagesNo added pagesNo pictures loosely attached (all pictures must be securely attached and signed)

No pencil (I break this rule!)

GENERAL SET UP Title Page Table of Contents

1st column Date

Page Content

Page Number

Include Name of course, student name, year and school.

GENERAL SET UP GUIDELINES Content Pages Content Pages

Page Title

Content

Student Signature

Picture Glued in

Signature that goes across the picture onto the page

Witness Signature Proprietary Information

X’d out white space

GRADING ENGINEERING NOTEBOOKS What I have done in the pastHaving Friday as a EN grade day

Not recommended!!!!Grading every notebook once a week on a certain day. IED was on one day, POE another, etc

Having myself be the witness signature

My plans for this year:For IED - I will be witness signature

Other classes – classmates will be witness signature

Will still try to grade once a week

BEST PRACTICES????

PORTFOLIOS

A portfolio is a sampling of the breadth and depth of a person's work conveying the range of abilities, attitudes, experiences, and achievements.

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic82.htm

What is a Portfolio?

A portfolio is usually described as a collection of students’ work and achievements during their academic career.(Challis, 1999; Chen, Yu & Chang, 2007, http://www.cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/505/236

PORTFOLIO: HARD COPY VS ELECTRONIC Hard CopyHard copy portfolios present well

Can use a range of media including 3D material

Many people prefer to have a hard copy to view

Printing pages and pages of documents is expensive

BulkyCannot send easily

ElectronicNo need to carry bulky items aroundCan easily be seen via link by numerous clients

Flexible formatsCurrency of information – easily updated

Quality of information is greater

Technical issues can cause problemsViewer may not be able to view your portfolio

May not always be readily availableEncourage students to do both

ITEMS TO INCLUDE IN THE PORTFOLIO Title page – for hard copies this must be on the outside of the 3 ring binder

Information page – succinct

Table of Contents – Usually done by units/topics

Title page for each unitA representative example of your work from each activity or unit

Reflection page

Use a rubric to grade the portfolio

E-Portfolios are fairly easy to make and there are a plethora of websites available to aid in the construction of the e-portfolio.

The easiest I have found (may not necessarily be the easiest for all) is on Google sites.

Best Practices on Grading or Construction?

As with everything, adapt to fit your class and your students. The important thing is to encourage documentation.

Donald Clark blogged the following to keep all of this in perspective:

E-portfolios have taken up more conference time and wasted effort than almost any other learning technology topic I can recall. The idea’s been around since the nineties but isn’t it odd that no one seems to have one? And if they do it's forced upon them by an institution or LMS. Never has so much time been devoted to something with so little real impact.

http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2011/03/e-portfolios-7-reasons-why-i-dont-want.html

REFERENCES – WEBSITES USED IN THIS PRESENTATION

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic82.htm

http://www.electronicportfolios.com/ Dr. Helen Barrett

http://academic.regis.edu/LAAP/eportfolio/basics_include.htm

https://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioapps/overview

http://www.cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/505/236

http://www.cvtips.com/job-search/paper-vs-online-portfolios.html

http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2011/03/e-portfolios-7-reasons-why-i-dont-want.html

https://blog.udemy.com/professional-portfolio-examples/