Using Voicethread and Google Docs for Digital Portfolios

1. Reflecting on progress………. Digital Portfolios

2. We hope that through this portfolio process you will better understand the way that you personally learn and grow. Armed with this understanding you will be able to face challenges in your academic, athletic, artistic and personal life with a new kind of confidence.

4. Scanning

5. Uploading files

6. Hyperlinking

7. Creating .pdf files

8. Cloud computing

9. Creating and editing images, video and audio files

11. VOICETHREAD A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Each page of your Voicethread portfolio will focus on a particular event or idea that is worthy of your reflection and evaluation. These topics will be explained in detail during your advisory periods.

13. one page of an electronic document

14. A personal photograph

15. An image from the Internet that can be legally used

16. A video that you created

17. A slide show that you created

18. An original work of art Please be as creative and individual as you can.

19. Ideas for representing Mid Summer Night’s Dream

20. Getting Started http://voicethread.com Use your Sem E-mail address Your password is your student ID#

21. The VoicethreadEnviroment 3 tabs Browse lets you search through Voicethreads that others have made if they are set to be public Create is the tab that you will use to make your own Voicethreads MyVoice is the tab that holds links to your Voicethreads and to ones created by others that you have selected as a favorite.

23. Some video (flvis the best)

24. MS Word

25. MS Excel

26. PDF documents (the best)We are going to learn to create .PDF files from our existing documents

28. Your reflection will be recorded or typed. You can doodle on the image as you add your comment (reflection)

29. For any multi-page paper or project that you choose to put in your portfolio, you should display only one page in Voicethread. It is important, however, for anyone viewing your portfolio to be able to see the entire paper or project. In order to satisfy both of these requirements, you will upload the complete document to Google Docs. You will publish the document and copy the URL so that you can put a hyperlink on the corresponding Voicethreadpage.

30. What is a HYPERLINK ? Definition from WIKIPEDIA - In computing, a hyperlink is a reference in a document to an external or internal piece of information. The most common usage is in the Internet to browse through web pages: some text in the current document is highlighted so that when clicked, the browser automatically displays another page or changes the current page to show the referenced content. Usually a word that is the hyperlink is underlined and a different color so that you know you can click on it and it will open up another web page.

31. Tim Berners-Lee who is credited with the invention of the World Wide Web, saw the potential for easily accessing information by clicking on a word or image to get or go to additional information on a topic.

32. In order to create a hyperlink to another webpage, you must have the URL of that webpage. For more information about this, please click here Here is that other webpage with the information you were looking for www.otherpage.com Remember that the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the address of the webpage.

33. Store documents online and access them from any computer. Get to Google Docs from your SEM E-Mail account

34. Click “upload” “Choose file” will allow you to navigate to your document. Click “Upload” after you have chosen the file. Then click “back to Google Docs”

35. Once your document has been uploaded to Google Docs, Choose SHARE  PUBLISH AS A WEB PAGE Here is your URL to copy

36. Paste your URL here to create your Voicethread hyperlink