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Spring-Summer
2008 Vol.
7, Issue
3
TASKSTREAM: ONLINE TOOLS HELP WITH PLANNING, ORGANIZING AND
MANAGING PROGRAM EVALUATION, LEARNING OUTCOMES, ASSESSMENT
AND ACCREDITATION PROCESSES
TaskStream today is a
company that has parlayed more than a decade of its
experience creating instructional design,
lesson-plan-building, performance assessment, curriculum
management and eportfolio tools to a new level of products
and services that focus on accountability and learning.
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UNCW WATSON SCHOOL OF ED ONE OF MANY IN THE FIELD ADOPTING
EPORTFOLIOS
Like many schools and colleges of education,
the Watson School of Education at the University of North
Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) has transitioned over to
requiring all of its student teacher candidates seeking
initial licensure to create eportfolios. These UNCW students
use the TaskStream LAT to maintain what’s called a
"Foundations Portfolio," which is basically an electronic
compilation of selected work from each of their foundations
courses. TaskStream is also used later in their academic
programs as a tool for gathering evidence of their work in
meeting performance standards, and it becomes part of their
exit requirements from the Watson School of Education.
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HOW LIVETEXT HELPS HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
MANAGE
AND AUTOMATE ACCREDITATION PROCESSES
LiveText is a provider of a flexible, multi-faceted
accreditation management system for developing, assessing
and measuring student learning. Co-Founder Robert Budnik
talks about how this company has grown to offer a suite of
tools that addresses six guiding principles for
accreditation.
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LIVETEXT RESPONSIVE TO TEACHER EDUCATION COMMUNITY NEEDS
Lance Tomei is Director for Assessment, Accreditation, and
Data Management at the University of Central Florida (UCF)
College of Education. He took a close look at LiveText in
2002 when he attended the company’s first annual
Collaboration Conference held in Chicago. He says he
attended the conference in order to hear what users had to
say about LiveText technology, as well as to get an
understanding of what kind of reputation the company had
established as an organization.
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DIGICATION MAKING HEADWAY IN HIGHER ED EPORTFOLIO
MARKETPLACE
Digication is a web-based eportfolio software
company that was created by two art educators, Jeffrey Yan
and Kelly Driscoll, both graduates of and faculty members at
the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), noted as one of
the top art schools in the country. Driscoll and Yan also
have extensive backgrounds in web application development,
user interface design, and digital media, so it makes sense
that they have created an eportfolio product and service
that has become highly regarded for its ease of use;
great-looking, customizable and intuitive interface; and its
strong capability to easily store and display complex
digital images and video files. Driscoll and Yan also have a
strong community-building, social-networking, Web 2.0 kind
of mindset that is helping to steer their product down
interesting and highly creative educational pathways.
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HOW CHALK AND WIRE HELPS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES BUILD
MULTIPLE LEVELS OF PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENTS
The
first in our series on electronic portfolio vendors . . .
Chalk and Wire is more than a provider of electronic
portfolio software. It also helps institutions implement
assessment systems with sophisticated analysis and reporting
features and functions that have been utilized for
accreditation management processes. See how Chalk and Wire
started and grew. Several institutions explain how the
collaborative relationship they have experienced with this
modern company, with a usability, learner-based and
assessment-focused mindset, has helped them move forward in
building out a culture of evidence.
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