Transcript ENGINEERING NOTEBOOKS, PORTFOLIOS AND EPORTFOLIOS By Janet Lopez OUR JOURNEY Engineering notebooks Use, construction, no-no’s, grading, best practices Portfolios Definition, hard copy vs e-portfolios, Items to.

ENGINEERING NOTEBOOKS,
PORTFOLIOS AND EPORTFOLIOS
By Janet Lopez
OUR JOURNEY
Engineering notebooks
Use, construction, no-no’s, grading, best practices
Portfolios
Definition, hard copy vs e-portfolios, Items to include, grading,
best practices
ENGINEERING NOTEBOOK
Engineering Notebooks exist for one reason:
Documentation of all work to substantiate originality of design,
idea or process.
In my classroom, the engineering notebook also serves as a
notebook to record class notes and vocabulary in addition to
design documentation.
ENGINEERING NOTEBOOK CONSTRUCTION
Content:
 Title page
 Table of contents
 Chronological entries
 Includes sketches, notes,
calculations, brainstorming, designs
(initial, changes, final), team
information, pictures, etc.
 Expert contacts
These are a Must:
 Every page numbered sequentially
 Two dated signatures on each page
- authors and witness
 Include the words Proprietary
Information on each page
ENGINEERING NOTEBOOK NO-NO’S
No empty pages
No white spaces (general rule – no more than 4 lines of unused
paper)
No pages unnumbered
No missing pages
No added pages
No pictures loosely attached (all pictures must be securely
attached and signed)
No pencil (I break this rule!)
GENERAL SET UP
Title Page
Table of Contents
1st column
Date
Include Name of course,
student name, year and
school.
Page
Content
Page
Number
GENERAL SET UP GUIDELINES
Content Pages
Content Pages
Page Title
Content
Picture Glued in
X’d out white
space
Student Signature
Witness Signature
Proprietary
Information
Signature
that goes
across the
picture onto
the page
GRADING ENGINEERING NOTEBOOKS
What I have done in the past
 Having Friday as a EN grade
day
 Not recommended!!!!
 Grading every notebook once a
week on a certain day. IED was
on one day, POE another, etc
 Having myself be the witness
signature
My plans for this year:
 For IED - I will be witness
signature
 Other classes – classmates will
be witness signature
 Will still try to grade once a
week
BEST PRACTICES????
PORTFOLIOS
A portfolio is a sampling of
the breadth and depth of a
person's work conveying the
range of abilities, attitudes,
experiences, and
achievements.
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic82.htm
What is a Portfolio?
A portfolio is usually described as a
collection of students’ work and
achievements during their academic
career.
(Challis, 1999; Chen, Yu & Chang, 2007, http://www.cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/505/236
PORTFOLIO: HARD COPY VS ELECTRONIC
Hard Copy
 Hard copy portfolios present well
 Can use a range of media including
3D material
 Many people prefer to have a hard
copy to view
Electronic
 No need to carry bulky items around
 Can easily be seen via link by numerous clients
 Flexible formats
 Currency of information – easily updated
 Quality of information is greater
 Printing pages and pages of
documents is expensive
 Bulky
 Cannot send easily
 Technical issues can cause problems
 Viewer may not be able to view your
portfolio
 May not always be readily available
Encourage students to do both
ITEMS TO INCLUDE IN THE PORTFOLIO
Title page – for hard copies this must be on the outside of the 3
ring binder
Information page – succinct
Table of Contents – Usually done by units/topics
Title page for each unit
A representative example of your work from each activity or unit
Reflection page
Use a rubric to grade the portfolio
E-Portfolios are fairly easy to make and there are
a plethora of websites available to aid in the
construction of the e-portfolio.
The easiest I have found (may not
necessarily be the easiest for all) is on
Google sites.
Best Practices on Grading or Construction?
As with everything, adapt to fit your class and your
students.
The important thing is to encourage documentation.
Donald Clark blogged the following to keep all of this in perspective:
E-portfolios have taken up more conference time and wasted effort than almost any
other learning technology topic I can recall. The idea’s been around since the nineties
but isn’t it odd that no one seems to have one? And if they do it's forced upon them by
an institution or LMS. Never has so much time been devoted to something with so little
real impact.
http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2011/03/e-portfolios-7-reasons-why-i-dontwant.html
REFERENCES – WEBSITES USED IN THIS
PRESENTATION
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic82.htm
http://www.electronicportfolios.com/
Dr. Helen Barrett
http://academic.regis.edu/LAAP/eportfolio/basics_include.htm
https://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioapps/overview
http://www.cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/505/236
http://www.cvtips.com/job-search/paper-vs-online-portfolios.html
http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2011/03/e-portfolios-7-reasons-why-i-dont-want.html
https://blog.udemy.com/professional-portfolio-examples/