A.++CAPSTONE+OVERVIEW

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INTRODUCTION **

** Purpose: ** I am currently in the last of five VHS courses, //Becoming an Online Teacher//. This Portfolio serves as the Capstone Project for this course and the four previous courses. The purpose of this Portfolio is to serve as a place where I will reflect on what I have been learning, doing, observing and thinking about throughout the VHS course series. This will be a final product that will critique/analyze how my teaching in my f2f classes has changed, grown and expanded as a result of participating in these online classes. As I continue through this final course, I will learn more about online teaching. I plan to weave these reflections into this Portfolio and explore hybrid possibilities.

** Audience: ** Initially, the primary audience for this Portfolio will be my VHS instructor and me. By the end of this capstone course, my fellow classmates will become audience members as we look over each other’s Portfolios. This sharing of each other’s Portfolio’s will be important to everyone…my fellow classmates are a smart and insightful group of people, and their feedback on my Portfolio will be invaluable.

** Goals: ** My goals and standards are to organize the Portfolio and create a product that will serve me well after this course is finished. By reflecting on how I have implemented 21 century skills and Web 2.0 technologies into my classes and how I can continue to improve and grow in these areas, I plan to produce a document that I can refer to again and again. I am going to consider this Portfolio to be a summary of all the things I have learned over the past five courses as well as a reminder of the things I want to implement in the future. I truly think it will take several years to incorporate the skills and technologies I have learned into my classes. I do not want to create a Portfolio that will collect dust as soon as this course is over. I hope also that this Portfolio will serve as a launching point for me to further explore online teaching. I would like to continue taking online courses (I am hooked) or explore the process of becoming a VHS online teacher myself.


 * Technologies/Platform: ** To showcase my Portfolio, I am using a wiki at wikispaces.com http://capstoneportfoliokathydeasy.wikispaces.com/A.++CAPSTONE+OVERVIEW. I will also be using other wikis, a blog, Powerpoint, etc.