Accessing Your eportfolio for the First Time
Students can utilize the computers in the Combs, Library, or SSB building, to set up their eportfolios. This initial experience will be scheduled by instructors. Students accessing their eportfolio for the first time will need to complete the following steps:

1. Login to the computer using the login instructions found in this manual.
2. Open the L: drive. (Labs on studentsrv)
3. Open the COE folder and copy the appropriate folder to their W: drive.
4. Find the W: drive with your name and double click to open it.
5. Right click in the blank space and select paste. Allow the computer to paste the  template (it may take a minute).
6. Right click on the pasted folder and choose “rename”.
7. Rename the folder “eportfolio” (no spaces or dashes).
8. You will perform this procedure only once.
9. Next, visit http://www.coe.eku.edu.
10. Click the “student resources” tab.
11. Click the “search student eportfolios” link.
12. Click where it says “Please click here to add your Web link to the search engine”.
13. Now enter your first name, last name and your Blackboard username in the spaces provided.
14. You should see a message that says “Your Professional Education Portfolio Page is added to the Database successfully. Click here to go to search page”.
15. Please click the link and search for your eportfolio.

Opening Your eportfolio for Editing
Microsoft FrontPage will be used for editing the eportfolios. To open an eportfolio with FrontPage:
1. Open your W: drive
2. Open your ‘eportfolio’ folder
3. right-click on the default page
4. Select Edit from the menu. This will open this page in the FrontPage Editor.

Changing the Theme of Your eportfolio
The background, color scheme and buttons on your eportfolio are all created using a theme. There are many different themes to choose from in FrontPage. To select a theme:
1. Open your eportfolio in FrontPage for editing.
2. Click the “Format” menu at the top of the page.
3. Choose “theme”.
4. Make sure that “all pages” is selected.
5. Use the arrow keys to view the different themes and select the one you would like to use.
6. Next, click “ok”. FrontPage will now apply the theme to all the pages in your eportfolio. This will take a few minutes. Please wait patiently until the process is complete.

Overview of eportfolio Contents
The eportfolio contains a list of folders and files. Some of these files and folders will be edited by you and some will not. Notice that the bottom of each page in your eportfolio contains a set of instructions that can only be seen while editing the eportfolio. These instructions will not show up when someone else views the eportfolio with a browser.

Default Page
The default page is the first page that people will see when they view your eportfolio. Double-clicking this file will allow you to preview and edit the page. This is where you should add a picture of yourself or other graphic, your personal information, and possibly an audio or video introduction. Your personal introduction on this page should be similar to the introduction in a well-written paper. Your major objectives are to grab the reader's attention and motivate the reader to read further and learn more about you. To complete the home page:
1. Enter your personal information by clicking in the appropriate box and typing the necessary text.
2. Underneath your personal information is a place for your personal narrative. Erase the text in the box and type your narrative.
3. Click on the File menu in the upper left-hand corner of your screen and click “save” to save your changes.
4. Refer to Appendix C or D for a list of colleges, departments and majors.

Add Your Name to All Pages:
Open the _private folder Double-click on the “your_name.htm” file. Replace the text on the document with your own name. click the save icon. Once saved your name will show up on all pages of the eportfolio.

Table_of_Contents.htm
The table of contents also appears in the list of files and folders. If you double-click the table of contents icon you will see that it contains links to all the parts of your eportfolio. You will not need to change this page unless you decide to include an optional entry in your eportfolio. Put your cursor in the box next to “optional entry” and type a descriptive title for your optional entry. Click on the File menu in the upper left-hand corner of your screen and click “save” to save your changes.

Button Files (.class files)
There are several other files in this list that you do not need to worry about.
Do not delete the “fphover.class” and “fphoverx.class” files.

INTRODUCTION ENTRIES FOLDER
The next folder in the list is called “introduction_entries”. This folder contains important introductory entries that will appear in the eportfolio including: Authorship Form, Dispositions, Letter of Presentation, Philosophy of Education, Portfolio at a Glance, Portfolio Interview Verification Form, and Reflection on the Portfolio. Click the + next to this folder to view its contents.

Philosophy of Education
A personal philosophy of education is a statement of your beliefs about the purposes of education, the ways that students learn and develop, and what and how students should be taught. Your philosophy of education should be a one page (300 to 350 words) statement of what you believe about education, learners, and teaching. As you draft your philosophy answer the following questions:
(1) What do I believe is the purpose of education?; (2) What is the way students learn best?; and (3) What are my roles as a teacher? The Philosophy of Education can be found in the Introduction Entries folder. To complete the Philosophy of Education type or copy and paste your philosophy of education into the appropriate box. To copy and paste your philosophy:
1. Open the philosophy that you have already completed.
2. Highlight all of the text that you will want to copy.
3. Click the Edit menu at the top of your screen and choose “copy”.
4. Return to FrontPage and click to place your cursor in the box that you are going to copy the text to.
5. Click on the Edit menu and choose “paste”.

PDF DOCUMENTS FOLDER
The PDF Documents folder is where you will save all of your standard entries, disposition entries, optional entries and resume. Each standard has room for two entries (additional entries can be added if necessary). Std1_1.pdf represents the first entry for standard one. Std1_2.pdf represents the second entry for standard one.

Converting documents to PDF format
1. Open the document that you wish to convert.
2. Click on the File menu in the upper left-hand corner of your screen and click “print”.
3. At the top of the print box that opens you will see a drop down menu called “printer name”. This box should be set to “CutePDF writer”. If any other printer is selected you must change it. Then click “ok”.

Ignore the Acrobat Distiller reference above and use CutePDF writer

4. You should now see a box that says “save PDF file as”. In the drop down menu find your web site. You will look for the W: drive with your name. Next, double-click the folder with your name and then click the “PDF documents folder”.
5. Change the filename to match the name of the entry that you are working on. For example, the first entry under standard 1 is called “std1_1”, the second entry under standard 1 is called “std1_2”, the first entry under standard 2 is called “std2_1”, etc.
6. Click “save”. A box should appear that says “This file already exists. Do you want to replace it?” You should answer “yes”. If this box doesn’t appear, you have not given your file the correct name. The conversion will take approximately a minute. Wait patiently until the process is complete. View your web site with a browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, etc.) to make sure that your entry has been successfully loaded.

Resume Template
In the private folder there is a Word document called Resume template. Double click this document to open it. Replace the resume content with your own. Do not alter the headings. Under some of the headings you may need additional room. To add additional space to this document you will need to insert a row:
1. Place your cursor on the page directly above where a new row should appear.
2. Click the Table menu at the top of the page.
3. Choose insert row. After you have finished filling out the template you will need to save it. Click the File menu at the top of the page and choose “Save”. Now it is time to convert your resume to a PDF document. All editing on your document must be completed and saved prior to conversion to Adobe pdf format. If you wish to make changes you must go back to your original document and re-save to PDF. Save the PDF form of your resume in the PDF Documents folder as “Resume.pdf”.

Dispositions
Dispositions are often defined as the personal qualities or characteristics that are possessed by individuals, including attitudes, beliefs, interests, appreciations, values, and modes of adjustment. Not surprisingly, there is a significant body of research indicating that teachers’ attitudes, values, and beliefs about students, about teaching, and about themselves, strongly influence the impact they will have on student learning and development (Collinson, et. al., 1999 and Combs, 1974). It is important for professional educators to know and understand the dispositions of effective teachers, so as to design experiences that will help to develop these characteristics in students and to help students discover if they have the “dispositions to teach.” You can write full-text disposition entries in any program you like--MS Word, Word Perfect, etc. However, MS Word is preferred as it is easiest to convert to Adobe pdf format. All editing on your document must be completed and saved prior to conversion to Adobe pdf format. If you wish to make changes you must go back to your original document and re-save to PDF. You will also need to type the title and a brief description of your entries in the space provided.

NOTE: All hyperlinks are linked to an existing file in the eportfolio, so do not change the file name. Browse for the existing file and let Windows replace it with the updated file.