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TEACHING EVIDENCE E-PORTFOLIO WITH WORDPRESSMaking it easy to collect and orgainise your teaching practice
Making a online portfolio is easy and the website Wordpress.com has 3 simple tools that will keep all your evidence for teacher registration organised at the click of a button.
A Wordpress Blog Wesite is Free !
Templates sort out all the layout for you.
A home page will list all your basic teacher info
As you post each piece of evidence you simply tick one or many of the 12 registration criteria it
applies to.
STEP 1
SIGN-UP TO A WORDPRESS BLOG
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1. Visit Wordpress.com2. Click “Get Started”3. Enter ersonal email (Not your school
email)4. Invent a UserName (Login)5. Invent a password (with Number)6. YourNameTeacher.Wordpress.com or
topic.wordpress.com if general blog
SamSmithTeacher
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7. Click “No thank, I’ll us the free address”
BigPinkBalloon
iPad4Schools.org
STEP 2
Activate & Setup
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Sam Smith
Teacher Reg No. 1234567 4
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6 I Chose “The Clean Home Theme.”
1. Look at your email and click the Activate button on the confirmation email.
2. Create your own Website
3. Blog Title = Your Name
4. Tagline = Teacher Reg Number
5. Next
6. Choose a Theme / Template (I chose “The Clean Home Theme” as it’s really simple)
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7. Don’t worry about ‘Customising” yet - Click Next
8. Don’t worry about posting yet either - Click Finish
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1. Make sure you are at your new website by checking the address is YourNameTeacher.wordpress.com
2. Hover over the Blog Menu next to the Wordpress logo and click “Dashboard”
Dashboard(Control settings)
STEP 4
Changing the About page to
be you Portfolio “Home” page
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Completing your Home
Page Content & removing
share buttons
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1. Click “Pages”
2. Click “Edit”
3. Type Subject as heading
4. Add Appropriate teacher details
5. At bottom of options, Un-tick the “Likes and Shares”
6. Click “Update”
1. Hover over Appearance and Click “Customise”
2. Click “Front”
3. Click “Static Page”
4. Change to “About”
5. Click “Save”
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Removing the “Allow Comments”
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7. Click “Pages”
8. Click “Quick Edit”
9. Un-tick “Allow Comments”
STEP 6
Adding the 12 Teacher registration categories ready to tick when you add evidence
1. Hover over “Posts”
2. Click “Categories”
3. Number Each Category - shortening it’s name
4. Click “Add New Category”
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01. Professional relationships02. Well-being of all akonga03. Bicultural partnership04. Ongoing Professinal Learning05. Show leadership for Learning06. Implement learning programme07. Supportive learning environment08. Understand of how akonga learn09. Needs of individuals and groups10. Bicultural context of Aotearoa11. Use of assessment information12. Critical inquiry and problem solving
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STEP 7
Adding evidence & files to the portfolio and categorising & “Tagging”
1. Hover over “Posts” in the Dashboard
2. Click “Add New”
3. Title the evidence
4. Type an introduction or explanation
5. Add Media button allows you to drag in pictures and files (Preferably PDFs for documents)
6. Tick ALL the categories that the evidence relates to. This quickly builds each category.
7. “TAGS” are key words which add more sub-categorisation. You might add ICT as a tag to all the evidence that indicates the use of ICT or “Leadership” as another Tag.
8. “Publish” then adds it to your e-portfolio
CONCLUSION
You now have a public site that can showcase your own practice. You can send the address to future employers and even the government if reqired (as it is in NZ)
