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ePortfolios
ePortfolios: A definition...
What is your current definition of an eportfolio?
The ePortfolio as a Container:
...uses electronic technologies as the container, allowing students/teachers to
collect and organize portfolio
artifacts in many media types (audio, video, graphics, text)...
Barrett, 2005
The ePortfolio as a Process:
“...what is produced when persons
collect, select, reflectively interpret, and/or present their own evidence to support their assertions
about what they have learned, know and can or
should do...”
Cambridge, 2003
“...ideas of what an e-portfolio 'is' are complex and to an extent the
definition and purpose will vary depending on the
perspective from which a particular person is approaching the concept...”
JISC ePortfolio Infokithttp://www.flickr.com/photos/darthdowney/
ePortfolios: The purpose...
What are you trying to achieve by implementing ePortfolios?
“...gives schools the flexibility to design and deliver programmes that will engage all students and offer them appropriate learning pathways.”
The New Zealand Curriculum
Do you use...
“...teaching approaches that consistently have a
positive impact on
student learning...”The New Zealand Curriculumhttp://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Do you have...
“...assessment for the purpose of
improving student
learning...”
The New Zealand Curriculumhttp://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Do you use...
“...elearning to open up
new and different
ways of learning...”The New Zealand Curriculumhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/47899590@N00/
Do you see...
“...parents and caregivers
as key partners...”
The New Zealand Curriculumhttp://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Do you have...
“...programmes that will engage all students...”
The New Zealand Curriculumhttp://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Does feedback on learning...
“...develop strategies for self-monitoring and
collaborative evaluation of their performance in relation to
suitable criteria.”The New Zealand Curriculumhttp://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Are your students...
“...connected...”
The New Zealand Curriculumwww.flickr.com/photos/saschaaa
connects learners
effective pedagogy
effective assessment
parent involvement
motivation & engagement
ePortfolios
elearning
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feedback
Engage, motivate, create, collaborate, share, present...
eLEARNING
Participation, interaction, collaboration, social networking...
Web 2.0
Effective Pedagogy & Assessment:
ASSESSMENT FOR
LEARNING
ePORTFOLIO
...assessment for learning is one of the most powerful ways of
improving learning and raising standards.
Assessment Reform Group, 2002
QCA, 2005
Assessment for Learning:
It is based on the idea that pupils will improve most if they understand the aim of their learning, where they are in relation to this aim and how they can achieve the aim (or close the gap in their knowledge).
“Good planning is essential to being clear.”
Absolum, 2006
“Embedded in a view of teaching and learning, of which
it is an essential part.”
Assessment Reform Group, 1999
“The awareness of
learning and the
ability of learners to
direct it for
themselves is of increasing importance in the context of
encouraging lifelong learning.”
Assessment Reform Group, 1999
“What this amounts to is that
self-assessment by pupils, far from being a luxury, is in
fact an essential component of formative assessment.”
Black & Wiliam, 1998
“Formative assessment does make a difference,
and it is the quality, not just the quantity, of
feedback that merits our closest attention.”
Sadler, 1998
ePortfolios: Types...
What are you trying to achieve by implementing ePortfolios?
TheShowcaseePortfolio
ePortfolios
TheAccountability
ePortfolio
TheProcess
ePortfolio
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The Process ePortfolio
Supports students towards achieving their learning goals.
www.flickr.com/photos/viernest
The Showcase ePortfolio
Celebrates learningoutcomes & shows thehighest level of achievement.
www.flickr.com/photos/made2serve
Documents learning for achievement of specific outcomes or standards.
The Accountability ePortfolio
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ePortfolios: Benefits...
What can ePortfolios offer the learner?
“The use of
multimedia tools is one strategy
that involves and
engages learners.”Barrett, 2005http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Ian Fox 2008http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthileo/
The power of ‘student voice’ should not be underestimated.
To hear students reflecting on their own work, in their own voice, with their own intonations and expressions, conveys meaning in a manner that is simply
not possible in written form.
...the social networking potential of the learning landscape and eportfolio-related tools are
features that facilitate and
enhance the making of
connections and the linking
together of people, ideas,
resources and learning...
Tosh et al., 2006
“...it is the quality, not just the quantity, of
feedback that merits our closest attention.”
Sadler, 1998http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
“...supporting the general process of reflection, self-evaluation and action planning for
lifelong learning...”
MOSEP 2007
“...students can
literally carry their eportfolio around with them and
update it at
any time in
any place.”
MOSEP, 2007http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirak/
...to define e-Portfolios as a
process, rather than just a product or a technological system.
Attwell, 2007
ePortfolios: Process...
What do eportfolios look like in action?
Burke, Fogarty & Belgrade (1994)
CollectSelectReflectProject
Project purpose
Collect & organise
Select learning
Interject personality
Reflect metacognitively
Inspect to self-assess
Perfect & evaluate
Connect & conference
Inject/Eject personality
Respect accomplishments
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Exemplars, creating LI, SC, matrices/rubrics
Learning artifact
embedded in portfolio
Feed back & feed
forward & reflection
Students working towards new goals in their learning
Future learning
Feed back & feed
forward & reflection
1st draft of writing
story board
brainstorm
teachers
peers
self
family
Learning artifact
embedded in portfolio
“finished” example
2nd draft
video
ePortfolio Learning Cycle
Exemplars, creating LI, SC, matrices/rubrics
Students working towards new goals in their learning
ePortfolio Learning Cycle
Learning artifact
embedded in portfolio
Feed back & feed
forward & reflection
ePortfolios: The tools...
What technologies make it happen?
ePortfolios: The ‘container’...
ePortfolios: The ‘container’...
ePortfolios: The tools...
Have you thought about these...?
Should an eportfolio include all aspects of a student’s life and learning?
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What happens when a student leaves school? Moves to a new class? Transfers?
www.flickr.com/photos/bigtallguy
Who retains ownership and control?
www.flickr.com/photos/sveinhal
Open to the world?
www.flickr.com/photos/willfuller
Are your parents and teachers ready?
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Do your current internet & computer use policies cater for eportfolios and use of Web 2.0 tools?
Will your eportfolios play a role in reporting achievement against the National Standards?
Do you need a packaged solution or is a mash-up of Web 2.0 tools OK?
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Is it important for eportfolios in your school to have a consistent look and feel?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Should your school expect the teachers to have a reflective eportfolio just as the students do?
ePortfolios: The criteria...
What would your criteria be for selecting an eportfolio solution?
Selecting an ePortfolio Solution
Purpose and Perspectives
Student
TeacherSchool
Management/Leadership
Parents
ePortfolioSolution
Government Policy?
Selecting an ePortfolio Solution
Students TeacherParent/School
CommuntyLeadership
Purpose:Purpose:Purpose:Purpose:
Non-Negotiable Criteria/features: What capability does the eportfolio need to support this purpose?
Non-Negotiable Criteria/features: What capability does the eportfolio need to support this purpose?
Non-Negotiable Criteria/features: What capability does the eportfolio need to support this purpose?
Non-Negotiable Criteria/features: What capability does the eportfolio need to support this purpose?
Additional criteria/features:What else do you want to be able to do?
Additional criteria/features:What else do you want to be able to do?
Additional criteria/features:What else do you want to be able to do?
Additional criteria/features:What else do you want to be able to do?
Selecting an ePortfolio Solution
Students TeacherParent /
School ComLeadership
Purpose:Purpose:Purpose:Purpose:• Support assessment for learning. (criteria, feedback, feedforward, peer/self-assessment, reflection)• Celebrate and share achievement.• Ownership of learning
Non-Negotiable Criteria/features: What capability does the eportfolio need to support this purpose?
Non-Negotiable Criteria/features: What capability does the eportfolio need to support this purpose?
Non-Negotiable Criteria/features: What capability does the eportfolio need to support this purpose?
Non-Negotiable Criteria/features: What capability does the eportfolio need to support this purpose?
• Upload/embed post learning examples (photos, movies, Web 2.0 creations)• Allow comments• Ability to customise/personalise
Additional criteria/features:What else do you want to be able to do?
Additional criteria/features:What else do you want to be able to do?
Additional criteria/features:What else do you want to be able to do?
Additional criteria/features:What else do you want to be able to do?
Student retains ownership even if leaving or transferring schools.Student retains ownership even if leaving or transferring schools.Student retains ownership even if leaving or transferring schools.Student retains ownership even if leaving or transferring schools.
Web based (anywhere, anytime)Web 2.0 tool integrationAbility to comment, reflect & feedforwardAbility to demonstrate learningFacilitate social networkingSecureUser friendlyAestheticsUser storage spaceManageabilityExpandabilityLevel of technical know how requiredAvailability of technical supportCostAccess/edit from mobile device
ePortfolio Management...
In order to be effective and support the process of student learning, eportfolios:
•need to be embedded into your teaching and learning.
•require a high level of access to technology.
•you need to set time aside for students to first learn
how and then to actively reflect and give feedback
on learning.
Start small, and work your way up. Get students actively blogging in a class blog and move on to individual spaces
ePortfolio Management...
ePortfolios do not add to your workload. Instead you will need to change some of the ways you:
• give feedback• facilitate reflection• engage students in self and peer assessments
and
• you need to adapt learning and teaching so that
the process and outcomes can be shared
digitally within the eportfolio platform.
ePortfolios ➡ National StandardsePortfolios ➡ mobile phonesePortfolios ➡ live streamingePortfolios ➡ No container necessary, just mash
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