Artifacts

Guiding Questions

• 1. What is an artifact?• 2. What is one approach to developing a

reflection to go with an artifact?• 3. How can you embed PPTs. PDFs and

slideshows on your site?• 4. How can you embed images and video to

your site?

What is an artifact?

Artifact –an item that the candidate creates to demonstrate knowledge, dispositions, and performances acquired within a particular course or experience.

Helen Barretts Guide to Reflections

As one of the projects for the practicum I had to create a WordPress manual to supplement the current e-Portfolio. I had done some technical writing in the past although with very little guidance. Completing the manual was an exercise in trial and error. How could I write a manual that the teacher candidates could easily follow?I began by only describing paths and instructions:To Write a Page: Dashboard>Write>Write PageClick on the write and then write page tabs. A page view will appear. Fill in the title and the page content in the visual editor. Click save.

However after exploring examples of instructional manuals I realized I needed to also present the information visually. I asked around at work and figured out how to use Alt Print Screen to print screens. Then I opened them in paint and used the paintbrush tool to describe the process. The quality of these images really lacked. Here is an example:.

Pictures

Slideshow

PDF

Video: Bliptv

Tasks

• 1. Embed photos in your site with a URL• 2. Change one of the photo’s dimension to 100

by 100 pixels, change its alignment and set its borders and vertical and horizontal space

• 3. Add the video to a page on your site using the provided password (user name: lucwrite, password: eportfolio.)

• 4. Add a slideshare to a post using the provided password (Username: LucWrite password: ganesh23)