For bank street students working on their portfolio

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Bank Street College of Education
Principals Leadership Portfolio – How to and Helpful Hints
K. Crowley and S. Sherwood

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The background
 As part of our graduation requirements we need to have a
portfolio of our 18 months in leadership.
 In the past these portfolio's have been complied in
binders, then electronically on a jump drive.
 However, in order to keep up with the ever growing changes in
education, the portfolios have moved to a new form:
Online e-portfolios

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Google Sites for e-portfolio’s
 In
order to organize our portfolio’s a template for a
website has been developed using google sites.
 This
template can be customized allowing for your
own flare and creativity or can be left as is.
 The following slides will provide a quick reference
tool as you begin to familiarize yourself with google
sites (if you don’t know how to use it already)

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How to access google sites
 Log into your google email – www.gmail.com
 If you do not have a google email – type in www.gmail.com and set
up a google email address.
 Once logged in go to and look at the black toolbar at the top;

5. + Getting your site set up
 The select the “more” tab
 And then the “even more” option

6. + Getting your site set up continued
 Scroll down to the “sites” option
 Next chose the create button

7. + Getting your site set up continued
 Chose the browse the gallery for more thumbnail
 Type in “Bank Street College
of Education and click the
magnifying glass

8. + Getting your site set up continued
 Chose the template that looks like the one below;
 If this screen appears then make sure
this template in the blue toolbar at
top.

9. + Getting your site set up continued
 Make sure that this box is highlighted;
 Then name your site (it may take a
couple of tries as your name may be
taken. Fill in the security code and
then hit the create button

10. + Editing your site
 There are several key things you need to know that will help
you understand the basics to editing a site. As an overview
keep the following in mind;
 There is a pencil at the top of every page that allows you to
edit.
 There is also the “more button” which will bring you to the
back end of your site and will allow you to change the theme of
your site, organize your toolbars, and allow you to personalize
your site more. This is the “manage site” option

11. + Editing your site – MORE TAB
 The MORE TAB allows you access
to different parts of the site;
Page settings allows you to
edit the following features
Manage site brings
you to the back end of your site

12. + Editing your site – MANAGE SITE
 On this page using this tab you;
 Access your pages with the PAGES tab
 Delete items with the DELETE ITEMS tab
 Change theme with the THEMES tab
 Change the order of things with the SITE
LAYOUT tab
 Check the activity of the site with the RECENT
SITE ACTIVTY TAB
 Check your attachments with the
ATTACHMENTS tab

13. + Editing your site – COMPETENCIES
 At the home page click on the tab for – 18 MONTHS IN
LEADERSHIP
 Then click on one of the competencies
 Then chose one of the personal elements

14. + Editing your site – COMPETENCIES
 From here you can add images, charts, documents, from
google docs

15. + Editing your site – COMPETENCIES
 From here you can edit the text
 And you can also add files using this button

16. + Example sites and future reference
If you are looking for some inspiration you can check out these
two sites which are still two very big works in progress but at
least they will give you some ideas;
https://sites.google.com/site/kristinmcrowley/
Or
https://sites.google.com/site/sherwoodleadershipportfolio/
Future Reference
You can find this slideshow by scanning the QR Code below
Bank Street Leadership Portoflio How-to