Electronic Student Portfolios at Brescia

Brescia College in Owensboro, Kentucky is designing its Teacher
Education program around the use of Electronic Student
Portfolios (ESPs).  Each student's ESP is a comprehensive
three-year record of their development into a teacher.
Students are encouraged to be as creative as possible as they
develop their ESPs using state-of-the-art IBM workstations with
multimedia and authoring capabilities.

All Teacher Education classes have portfolio requirements.
Specific portfolio requirements include a field journal of
schools visited during the program, software evaluations, and a
carefully documented evolving knowledge base in the studentUs
particular area of emphasis.  The ESPs combine the strong
liberal arts emphasis of the Brescia program with the use of
computer technology.  The ESP is actually a three-ring binder
containing floppy disks and the information necessary to run
the various programs and files on them. 

As part of their ESP, students develop instructional
programming using Linkway and Toolbook which prepares them, as
future teachers, to create software for use in their own
classrooms.  Other areas covered by the portfolios include the
use of desktop publishing and graphics programs.  Some students
bring their ESPs to life with audio clips, video clips, or
dramatic visual effects theyUve created with the multimedia and
authoring technology .

The program's emphasis on integrating technology and education
provides an exciting and unique environment for stimulating
intellectual growth.  The Teacher Education faculty at Brescia
College believe that the Electronic Student Portfolios provide
a very meaningful way for students to capture and explore
professional education.  

For more information contact: 
Steven Turner
Brescia College
717 I Yederica Street
Owensboro, KY  42301
.