43-E-Portfolios and Online Learning with Gencie Houy, Texas Tech

<p><strong>SHOWNOTES:</strong></p><p>•   I'm preparing students to be family consumer sciences teachers. And one of the things I do in the freshman level course is I actually have them compile a live binder of all of the resources that they have found, and they actually have to collect some sort of document or website or media for five different content areas in family consumer sciences. So, maybe they're going to have a tab that's on culinary arts, or maybe they're going to have another tab that's for child development, maybe one for your food and nutrition, and then underneath those tabs, they have all of the resources that are going to help them and guide them into becoming that professional educator.(3:58)</p><p>•   There's a lot of different platforms that you can use for e-portfolios, and the one I love is live finders, that's the one I focus on. There's also things like web quests that you could put together, and I would definitely, as a professional family consumer science is educator, I would put together a live binder that maybe has your credentials in it or use some sort of a portfolio that way, (7:56)</p><p>•   My husband, he's a secondary educator, teaches high school engineering, and of course, when it moved to all virtual, it was extremely difficult for him as well to move his stuff virtual. We has since gone back face-to-face, but it's face-to-face and virtual at the same time, so those students who don't want to come face-to-face can log and virtually. My husband is teaching face-to-face at the same time that he's teaching virtually, and for the first, like you said, until October November, he just is exhausted.  (30:28)</p><p>•   Those reflective journals have really helped me, as an instructor, to reach out to students individually and just connect with them on our normal FCS mentoring way that we always do in our classroom. So I've been able to make those connections with these post-secondary students and some of them, they may not ever get that. Texas Tech is a large school. You could have a