for learning and teaching

Centre for the Advancement of Learning and TeachingUniversity of Tasmania

This is an introductory, hands-on session for staff considering using PebblePad, the University's ePortfolio tool, for teaching and learning during 2010. No experience with ePortfolios or PebblePad is required.

Who should be here: anyone who wants to introduce the use of eportfolios into their learning and teaching.

Discuss a variety of learning and teaching outcomes that can be effectively supported by ePortfolios.

Learn how to access PebblePad and use some of its components to achieve these learning and teaching outcomes.

Know where you can locate support resources and obtain further assistance.

Discuss the relative strengths and weaknesses of PebblePad, compared with existing learning and teaching tools.

An eportfolio is a purposeful presentation of digital artefacts which is aimed at a selected audience. An eportfolio may be used as evidence of learning, ideas, experiences, achievements and reflections.Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching website (2010)

is an electronic presentation;

tells a story to a selected audience;

draws upon a collection of electronically stored artefacts; and

is developed over a period of time. JISC (2008). Effective practice with

e-Portfolios, p.7.

Prospective employers Registration board of professional body Course entry application Evidence of competence or ability Promotion Award or Grant application Record of, and aid to, personal development

http://www.teaching-learning.utas.edu.au/elearning/eportfolios

What is it? What can it do?

http://www.pebblepad.com.au/utas

http://www.pebblepad.com.au/utas

What we are going to do in this session is:◦ Look at a variety of Teaching & Learning

strategies that you could include in an eportfolio◦ Learn some of the tools in PebblePad that support

these T&L strategies

Class participation Collaboration in projects Demonstration of practical skills and

capabilities (and reflecting on practice) Developing reflective practice Presentation of work Formative Feedback

Answering questions ◦ Education (thought)

Creating an Action, Study or Research Plan◦ Nursing, AMC (action plan)

Literature Review◦ Education (thought)

Submitting work (file)◦ Arts, Engineering

Case Study◦ Business Law (thought, blog)

Collaborative projects for small groups ◦ Case study – Business Law

Group presentation using the Webfolio◦ Nursing Conference◦ Zoology

Meetings and Action Plans (showing the process of collaboration)

Clinical performance◦ Nursing◦ Medicine

Capability based assessment◦ Medicine

Field experience◦ Education

Ability, Activity, Thought, File

Learning Journals◦ Education

Reflective Journals◦ Nursing

Individual and/or collaborative Reflecting on practical experience

◦ Medicine◦ Education

Blog or Webfolio (thoughts, etc)

Portfolio of tasks◦ Education◦ Medicine

Group presentation Webfolio

Submitting work for feedback◦ Send to … comment

Tracking progress◦ Use of gateways

Forms

Profiles

PebblePad help including videos and tipsheet - http://www.pebblepad.com.au/help.asp or http://www.pebblepad.co.uk/help.asp

CALT eportfolios webpage (which includes links to a variety of resources) - http://www.teaching-learning.utas.edu.au/elearning/eportfolios