I attended the Northern Voice: Canadian Blogging Conference on February 19.
It was a very different experience. This conference was run under a more casual setting. Some of the attendees just blogged along as it goes. Others just took pictures and posted it on thier blog or flickr-ed it.
Volunteers and speakers at the conference also received a very pretty “Bloggable” T-shirt, too.My notes at the talks can be found here:
Keynote: Tim Bray – What’s in That Soup Pot?
Robert Scoble
This is a document we shared at our last Community of Practice Meeting on February 23rd. The table summarizes scope of the various e-Portfolio pilot projects at UBC.
File: project_summary.pdf
Bob mentioned that there’s a new release of the KEEP Toolkit at our last Community of Practice meeting.
So, I loggged into the system and checked out the new features.
New features of this version of KEEP Toolkit (v1.6) includes:
and more… a complete list can be found here.Some screenshots:
The Dashboard – an improved interface
Stitching a few snapshots together with a horizontal navigation bar.
Stitching a few snapshots together with a vertical navigation bar.
Posted on behalf of Cindy Underhill
Just a brief update on the progress of this working group. Essentially we were brought together to look at the potential for e-portfolio use in Adult Basic Education programs. To date: we have decided on three platforms to pilot: SEGUE, OSPI and ELGG.
We have formed three test groups around these platforms. Our next steps are
to:
* create our own portfolios using the three systems.
* defeine a use case for the ABE programs
* examine the pedagogical issues
A rubric for assessment is in development and we will use this to guide our explorations. The goal is to test in April, evaluate in May and prepare to incorporate into some classes for September.
FYI:
BCCampus has worked with David Tosh and co. to develop some short, contextual “help” demos – dealing with a few aspects of portfolio development in ELGG. These can be viewed from the BCCampus Ed Tech Community of Practice site under Discussions > E-Portfolios > E-Portfolio ABE Pilot Project: http://community.bccampus.ca/bccampus
OSP is moved to a production server recently. It is a completely new installation and will be running for our pilot projects.
You can access OSP 1.5 from http://eportfolios.olt.ubc.ca
Please note that old copy on http://station01.olt.ubc.ca:8800/portfolio will not be accessible anymore.
I attended the School District 43 (Coquitlam) e-Portfolio container meeting on November 26, 2004. There were several software demos during the meeting. I have compiled a the notes from the meeting. Please find the file under the “Continue reading ….” section.Meeting notes
Since the instance of OSP on http://station17.olt.ubc.ca:8800/portfolio/
is demonstrating some strange behaviour (e.g. It does not allow anyone to log in), we are planning to move the testing to another server http://station01.olt.ubc.ca:8800/portfolio/.
Please also take note that the OSP instance sitting on the old server will soon become unavailable.
If you would like to check out OSP, you can self-register an account from here.
The generic template I developed earlier can now be found here
The Community of Practice had our last CoP meeting on Oct 27.
During the meeting, we also had a short discussion on Jenny Moon’s paper on reflection. Thanks to Bob for preparing a summary on the paper.
The meeting minutes and the summary can be found in the extended entry (Click on “Continue reading “October 2004 Community of Practice Meeting””).Related files:
IMS Global Learning Consortium’s ePortfolio Public Draft Specification was released earlier this month. It is available from the IMS Global website: http://www.imsglobal.org/ep/index.cfm.
A few weeks ago, I posted a message on the OSP website to inquire on the interoperability of OSP 2.0 and WebCT Vista. Sasan replied my message earlier last week and said:
The WebCT PowerLink for OSPI is undergoing final testing and packaging. It should be available for download in the next 2 to 3 weeks.
Related Link: The OSPI forum posting