Sunday, 27 March 2016

ePortfolio

A summary of ePortfolios
I think the use of an ePortfolio tool can showcase the learner’s reflections, help organize some research, projects and displays artefacts. Artefacts It can also be a place where you can store information. As ePortfolio’s have the capability of targeting your growth such as writing skills you see the writing getting stronger as time progresses. Goals can be identified then in later submissions the goals can be accomplished. “Learners are able to best engage with curriculum when they are able to record their own progress, self-assess against learning outcomes and reflect critically upon their development over time. This approach provides students with the opportunity to become stakeholders in their own progress and also provides an environment for deep learning to occur.” (Pelliccione & Dixone, 2008, pg. 751-752) There is a shift to learning as it is just as essential to reflect and take ownership of what student’s are learning. Such as what will they do with the information given? There is a depth to the content when they are asked how have you internally changed from reading the content of the curriculum. “ePortfolios shift the focus of the traditional higher education paradigm as students are encouraged to take responsibility for what and how they learn.” (Pelliccione & Dixone, 2008, pg. 752)
The ePortfolio can be created in tech tools such as PowerPoint. This digital display of a learner’s progression is an achievement in accessing discussions in a more active manner. “An ePortfolio approach that spans a course of study and beyond to a professional setting allows participants to originate and maintain ‘conversations’ about their learning and by doing so they become active in formative assessment rather than passive receivers of graded results.”(Pelliccione & Dixone, 2008, pg. 752) The students take ownership of what is written and shared on their ePortfolio so this ensures an active participation in their learning rather a static one-sided interaction of learning.
ePortfolios in curriculum
           
I think there is a use for ePortfolios as people are posting their status on social media this is a way of presenting student’s self/peer assessments, projects, multi media links and etc. This will allow student engagement using a digital forum. “Each activity builds upon other tasks so that over time a personal learning resource is achieved. The resource, such as a portfolio can be used to validate the extent of student engagement with the learning outcomes and it can also serve as a form of summative assessment prior to the completion of each unit of study, course, as a pathway to graduation and also as an ongoing professional tool once engaged in the workplace for the purposes of appraisals, assessments and revalidation/accreditation.” (Pelliccione & Dixone, 2008, pg. 752) The ePortfolio is a use of tracking student’s self-progression from school to that person who is striving for growth.

The value in creating a personal teaching ePortfolio
           
The ePortfolio offers the student to engage in their journey of learning. This is documented through the ePortfolio with the activities assigned by the instructor. “Each activity builds upon other tasks so that over time a personal learning resource is achieved. The resource, such as a portfolio can be used to validate the extent of student engagement with the learning outcomes and it can also serve as a form of summative assessment prior to the completion of each unit of study, course, as a pathway to graduation and also as an ongoing professional tool once engaged in the workplace for the purposes of appraisals, assessments and revalidation/accreditation.” (Pelliccione & Dixone, 2008, pg. 752) Therefore it is the student; who then continually prepares their ePortfolio. The Assessment Toolkit Assessing with ePortfolios article states, “ePortfolios are planned and compiled by the owner (students) rather than by the educator.” (2015, para. 1) Here the student may need to recognize this may take time to develop their personal teaching ePortfolio.
Remember to discuss/address the topic plagiarism with the students as addressed in Joanne Reid's rubric for the ePortfolio activity module for Vancouver Community College Certificate in Online/eLearning. My instructor states "discussing the implications of plagiarism and illustrating the importance with examples" (Reid, 2016, para. 2) There is a need to discuss this important topic especially when student's have so much access to information. 

The artifacts I would use in an ePortfolio
I like the idea of having a number of artefacts in the ePortfolio.  ePortfolio’s can have a “variety of media – text, video, digital stories, websites, animation.” (Pelliccione & Dixone, 2008, pg. 754) ‘Screencast-O-Matic’ and ‘YouTube’ would be good artefacts to record video. These easy to use and uploaded videos to an ePortfolio can be helpful in the learning process. It also brings a dynamic to the different learning styles. I would like to use ‘Prezi’ to showcase a way to express a concept that has been learned. The progression of the zoom feature adds an element to a project. The choice of so many tools available it is important to remember not to have artefacts that are distracting for the user to use and their audience. 

References

Pelliccione l., Dixone, K. (2008) Portfolios: Beyond assessment to empowerment in 
the learning landscape. Conference proceedings Ascilite 2008. Retrieved from 
http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/melbourne08/procs/pelliccione.pdf

Reid, Joanne. (2016) Complete ePortfolio activity. www.vcc.ca. Retrieved from 
http://moodle.vcc.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=319344&inpopup=1 


(2015) Assessment Toolkit Assessing with ePortfolios. unsw.edu.au. Retrieved from https://teaching.unsw.edu.au/printpdf/535

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