October 24, 2002

Members of the Hope College Technology Team present:

Naomi Bertram Secondary Haley Martin Elementary

Susan Cherup Education Department Erin McNary Elementary

Deanna Clouse Secondary Kelly Rabe Elementary

Sarah Klooster Elementary Margie Wiersma Elementary & CIT

Chris Major Secondary

Margie and I shared the diagram on gathering and storing information for an electronic portfolio.

The team shared information from Literacy I and the Secondary Block that would be good to include in the electronic portfolio template. Suggestions from Literacy I included lesson plans, lab logs, and the children’s book. Direct instruction lessons were recommended for the Secondary Block. It was suggested that the Microsoft Word document map be the model to use.

The team revised the draft mission statement; to explore technological and electronic methods that can be supported at Hope College, for preservice teachers to save information which documents their knowledge, skills and experiences in order to create an electronic portfolio. We will review it again at the next meeting.

The team would like to meet with Dan from Video Services to learn more about using DVDs as a means to store and showcase information gathered. A date was not determined but it will need to be on a Thursday around 8:00 PM. Thanks, Kristi Creswell for speaking with Dan.

Discussion on using the network to save work resulted in; Sarah Klooster will ask Emily Scott to join our group and to activate her account. Erin McNary will ask Becky Riechel to share her account and to activate it. Naomi Bertram will invite Susana Rodriguez to join the group and activate her account. If you need any help call Steve Bareman at CIT, x7670.

At our next meeting we will meet in a computer lab to work on expanding the portfolio created in Ed. 225 with artifacts from Literacy I and the Secondary Block. Since there were scheduling conflicts we have two dates to do this.

Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 5:30 Thursday, Nov. 14 at 6:00

Deanna Haley

Erin Sarah

Naomi

Chris

Those who were unable to attend this meeting may come to either session. I will try to reserve the Library Teaching Lab but will let everyone know for certain where we will meet. PLEASE BRING YOUR ZIP DISK FROM ed. 225 AND ANY ARTIFACTS YOU WANT TO ADD TO YOUR PORTFOLIO.

We discussed the possibility of sharing our work with the Education Department faculty at some point in the semester.