CA Teacher Center Tutorials - general skills, electronic portfolios, electronic presentations

Computer Skills &
Electronic Portfolio Tutorials

We are providing on-line tutorials for basic computer skills and the creation of electronic projects and portfolios. Electronic portfolios and projects are truly authentic assessment pieces. Ask for a workshop at your school.

Portfolio creation and maintenance is an important skill for today's students. Electronic portfolios take things one step further by allowing students to share their information in a way that is accessible through CD's, the web, or both. Colleges and employers are looking for technology savvy people. Students who create attractive electronic portfolios will have a leg up on those who don't.

Examples: Tim H Portfolio Sarah Houseknecht Sports Portfolio

St. Bonaventure Teacher Portfolio Program

Sample Portfolio With Various Ways of Displaying Images

Live Tutorials Click here for an overview of this project.

General Skills	MS Word	Image Editing	PowerPoint	Spreadsheets
Portfolio Specific Tutorials (watch these first before the Word and PowerPoint stuff above) Teachers: Click here to see a workshop review of Tim's electronic portfolio workshops.

Most of the tutorials linked above are to live tutorials, with voice and screen movements. You need Macromedia's Flash Player installed to run the live ones. Get Macromedia Flash Player
We're working to create a short tutorial for common computer skills and each essential portfolio or presentation making skill.

It is not our intention to create tutorials for every single skill in each one of these programs (we're not totally nuts!). Our goal is to create tutorials for some of the handiest (and often overlooked) skills and tools.

Subject Area Help (all of these links are on the web):

ELA - Writing:

Purdue University Online Writing Lab
This is a great and award winning site for help with writing and research papers. You can use the presentations from their site or save them to your computer.

Other computer tip sources:

Free Typing Course Microsoft Office Home Microsoft Learning Page Worldstart Computer Tips Want to learn even more?	From Goodtyping.com Tutorials available here. Find training and sign up for MS E-learning Great tips and their newsletter archived here. Get a subscription to Atomic Learning. A subscription is $79.95 for a year. A district can purchase a site license (600 users) for $750.
General Computer Help	Worldstart Computer Tips -great source for all sorts of tips. World Start (Great computer tips and software deals!) World Start Video Tips (step by step videos)
Excel spreadsheets For other Excel links, go to your favorite search engine and type in something like spreadsheet classroom.	Everyday Spreadsheets in the Classroom LT Technologies - Spreadsheet Links MS Excel Resources Spreadsheets in the Classroom Integrating Spreadsheets in the Classroom To Excel in the Classroom
Digital Imaging	Short Courses (www.shortcourses.com)
Organizations	National Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)