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These teacher or student portfolio criteria include:
1.
Audience/purpose/persuasion
2.
Contact information
3.
Biography/credentials
4.
Educational philosophy/pedagogy
5.
Evidence of professional development
6.
Evidence of student work
7.
Educational curriculum, management and assessment measures
8.
Links for educators, parents and students
9.
Interactive features
10.
Visual layout
Now let's try to operationalize these criteria and measure them against
randomly selected Web portfolios found in the field of education.
Audience/Purpose/Persuasion
Audience:
Before writing, an author must identify his/her audience. The author writes with
an intended audience in mind, and often times, the content of the text is written
for a specific target audience.
In a teacher Web portfolio, the teacher has an audience in mind when he/she
writes the content or narrative for the portfolio. One such target audience is the
employer. Colleagues and peers are another audience group. Parents are an
intended audience, and students are a possible audience as well. A teacher's
Web portfolio might target one or multiple audience groups.
Purpose:
An author writes with purpose. The writing is intentional, and the author has a
reason(s) why he/she is writing. A teacher also has a purpose for creating a
Web portfolio. Purposes vary and often times overlap. In addition for the
reason(s) why a teaching Web portfolio is created, the teacher needs to also
decide what to include and how to convey his/her message.
