Faculty+Feedback+and+Suggestions

3/30/15 (M Dudiak) Personal Sec: Didn't see the Acceptance letter or transcript. I am seeing a nice balance of K and 3rd grade lessons. Just incredibly impressed with what I see so far. It is such a showcase of your journey!!! Well done.

3/2/15 (M Dudiak) I love all the pics on the cover page but with the video and screencast-o-matic eventually there you might want to take a few off. Up to you. If you think you might have only two artifacts for some standards you should take off the third placeholder title on the table of contents.Remember your student teaching COL goes in InTASC 6. What are you planning for InTASC 7? Love all the student work shown--it is looking really so professionally done. Would love to share some of your web 2.0 tools with the class.

1/24/14 (M Dudiak) We will work on revising your resume during seminar class. Glad to see how you reorder everything--it is now easy to follow your journey. I really like your Kizoa tool--nice way to view with labels the student work from the lesson. I wasn't able to view the pics at the end of multiple artifacts. We need to explore if it is a "plug in" issue on multiple computers or just mine. You might give a peer access to your wikis and see if they can see those pics or not. Nice to see student work evident. To make sure e portfolio more interactive--consider any videos to bring the artifact alive. Looks like you should keep in mind areas you need artifacts when in your student teaching rotations to help fill in the blanks.

8/12/14 (M Dudiak) Make sure that you have your artifacts in the same order: RN, artifact write up (JPTAAR, 5 E, etc) and then student work. This should be a consistent format for each artifact. You can just reorder them. Make sure the Table of Content artifact Names are descriptive enough--maybe say "External Features Science Lesson Plan." I notice on that same lesson your curriculum objectives say MSC--that is an extremely outdated reference and should reflect the MD Common Core which is now MD College and Career Ready Standards (MCCRS). We will discuss it more in my classes but if you keep this in your portfolio you will need to change MSC. Same in your Similar Looking Animals artifact--though I think you are on the right track with the order and presentation of the artifact--better.

If you keep the Literacy Bag as an artifact it should have more to it. Pictures of the bag, samples of the activities, etc. Not a strong artifact in its current capacity. Shared Reading artifact looks the most promising--nice job.

Good start to your portfolio. Obviously you are going to have more artifacts to pick from in your senior year semester. Remember to be taking pictures and saving or scanning student work to use in your portfolio. Keep it up.

1/10/14 (M Dudiak) Personal section: I liked learning more about you on your video. For the future, you can focus it more on your early childhood journey with more visuals and creative components. Glad to see most of your personal section is complete....do you need a copy of your Praxis scores? We should have an electronic copy at the USG office we can send you.

Professional section: Happy to see you are embedding your documents. Check your field trip letter google docs heading--there is a typo with the word "field" spelled "feild" it shows up and could reflect poorly when reviewed.The second embedded doc for the Interactive lesson is not showing--probably a "sharing" issue in google docs. If that is a reflective narrative it needs to be moved to the top and the lesson comes after it. Good start on writing your reflective narrative.

Please make any updates or changes before the spring semester starts.

10-16-13 (Dudiak) Make sure to add the Personal Section and Professional Section headings (with no links to pages) in the appropriate place on the table of contents.

4/8/14 (L Shiffman) You currently have 5 artifacts, 3 of which have reflective narratives. I know that you are looking for a way to revise your video, yet still keep it secure. Be sure to continue to revise RNs if you plan to keep them and to include the NAEYC along with the NAEYC plus number. I know you are planning to add visuals and work samples. Keep up the great work.

5/14 (LShiffman) You have all 10 required artifacts with RNs across several standards. Your intro screen is very inviting Also live the pictures and samples of student work on some artifacts