RIVAS What is an e-portfolio? An e-portfolio is the use of electronic technologies that allow the portfolio developer to collect and organize artifacts in many formats (audio, video, graphics, and text. Barrett (2000) An e-portfolio is an electronic format for learners to record their work, their achievements and goals, to reflect on their learning, and share. It enables learners to represent the information in different formats and to take the information with them between institutions Introduction This is an electronic document which evidenced Asmel Castros teaching process through the practice he had developed as English teacher from High school and its supported the tool he used in that process. And the aim of this e- portfolio it is to shared in a virtual way with other people around the word the process and tool to effort the teaching practice and to take this portfolio as an example to being improve for teaching. Resume Herson Asmel Castro Rivas is twenty one years old, he studied his elementary school in Centro Escolar 14 de Abril From 1998 to 2007. After that he graduated from High School at Instituto Nacional El Transito where he finished his high school study in two years from 2008 to 2009. At the present time, he is studying Bachelor Degree in English since 2010 in Gerardo Barrios University. Teaching Experienced Asmel started with his teaching practice on April 07th in 2014 at Instituto Nacional El Transito there he was a tutor from the 1 year vocational technician, he was teaching English in that institutions for a period of forty hours. There he was teaching on Monday, Wednesday and Friday sometimes. He was the responsible of supervising homework, implementing activities for production, creating lesson plans and checking student's progress in that period of time. Effort to improve teaching
Herson Asmel attended the first English congress in San Miguel at Tropico Inc where there were many congressman who talked about Web2.0 there the congressman explained how teacher can applied the web2.0 as a useful tool in teaching in order to improve the learning process and being innovate as well. Facebook Closet Group There is a thought which said that If the student does not learn the way we teach, we have to teach them in the way they learn because of that this social network is a good tool of improvement the classroom and also as a good tool of reinforce because students nowadays most of the time they spent on Facebook and we can used that network in order to assigned then a series of activities to do related to the previews class.
Duolingo I implemented this web site into my practice in order to increase the vocabulary of my students. And also this is an innovated web site in which the students can create their own profile and started with a series of activities which involved the four macro skill. Youtube Here you can find a lot of thing to improve your teaching practices and get students moving around the English language because you can implemented this web site in order to motivated the classroom with meaningful videos related to the topic given. Evidences(Diploma) Conclusion The teaching portfolio and e-portfolio as well, consist in two parts; provide evidences and the reflection of that evidences. That is why creating an e-portfolio is too important for a professional development because this document reflects your work as a teacher and provided a feedback in order to improved what you have done before, in short, we can make a reflection about our process and look for possible thing to improve in our practice.