Continuing Teaching License (CTL) Digital Portfolio

Exhibits

• Examples that “show” what you did

•  Lesson plans (open and show in word) or save as graphic or as pdf.
•  Student work samples – a must!
•  Handouts
•  Quizzes/puzzles/other assessments
•  Digital images showing your class in action
  
•  Audio or video files can be more challenging

• Remember to save your work in "web-friendly" formats inside the exhibits folder in your portfolio and then link to them on this and other pages.
  
• Use the "save as webpage" or "save as html" feature of many popular programs such as MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, AppleWorks, Inspiration, etc.
• Scan in paper documents using a scanner and save the image as .jpeg (if it is a photo) or .gif (if it is a graphic). Remember to scale down the size of the scanned image so that it is the size you want viewed on the web. A typical full page should not require more than 200-300 Kb of memory. Smaller is always better.
• Bring in digital photos, but again scale them to the size you want displayed in your exhibit. About 150 Kb is a typical size for a large photo.
• PDF files (or portable document files) created by programs like Adobe Acrobat or on any OS X Macintosh computer are a great way to bring in newletters and other formatted desktop publishing documents in such a way that the formatting is preserved. These are documents the user will often download in order to view.
• text files are also web-friendly--simple word processed files with minimal formatting. Most word processors can save a given files as text or .txt but a lot of formatting (like bold, italics, columns, etc.) is lost. Text files are rather rare for student exhibits.