Category — Resources

Dr. Helen Barrett points out that there is a new resource on the Saskatchewan Learning Website

A JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY: Facilitator’s Guide to Reflection and Portfolio Development (PDF)
This guide has been developed to support facilitators as they lead learners through a process of thinking about what they know and can do (reflection). Through involvement in these activities, learners identify the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they have developed, and create evidence of their learning. These general activities are intended to be adapted by facilitators to meet the needs of any group.

This is a useful resource for designing and facilitating e-portfolio and reflection assessments.

Thanks to Bob for pointing out this paper on Communities of Practice and Complexity : Conversation and Culture by Peter Bond

http://www.leader-values.com/Content/detail.asp?ContentDetailID=984

Kele, Brian and Michelle Chua recently gave a BCcampus webcast on Blogfolios.

Description:
Blogfolios are the happy blend of e-Portfolios and blogs. Take your typical blog ingredients, add a dash of….and a pinch of…..and you’ve got yourself a blog that meets your portfolio needs as well! Please join the UBC three Amigos, Brian Lamb, Kele Fleming and Michelle Chua in this recorded webcast, as they mash together ingredients from blogs and eportfolios and serve up a blogfolio.

The PowerPoint presentation can be found here: BCcampus_blogfolios.pdf

An archive of the presentation is also available on the BCcampus website.

Thought I’d point to a very nice resource from the University of Iowa College of Education, a white paper published in 2002 entitled “A WHITE PAPER ON PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT IN TEACHER EDUCATION: The Iowa ePortfolio Model”, accessible at http://www.education.uiowa.edu/eportfolio/whitepaper.pdf.

The paper outlines their approach to introducing and supporting e-portfolios as a professional and personal tool. AS well, it provides a section on the employer perspective on this effort. I believe this will be interesting to both students and faculty. It has a strong focus on the requirements of teacher education within Iowa, but I believe that there is much to learni from the approach.

THe whitepaper describes a three part model that takes into account the the concept of development – what you need to do to get a student started (focus on practical!), how you engage them further and support they their increase in understanding of their learning over time, and how you help them once they have graduated…

The process outlined moves the students from focusing on their course requirements to a broader understanding. I need to read a little deeper to see how reflection is encouraged throughout.

Figures 2 and 3 are quite interesting in this paper — looking at the timelines from both student and faculty points of view. It would be interesting to look at our projects and see what our timelines look like – given their broad range in context and purposes.

Figure 4 is also useful — what is the technical framework required…

Interesting read!

Bjorn Thomson, our MEd. student who coordinates 3 of our pilots, has started a Teaching e-Portfolio wiki. Bjorn’s done a wonderful job of collecting examples of teaching e-portfolios as well as building his own in the various softwares we’re piloting. This is an excellent resource for our community!

I have written a few how-to dcouments as tips and hints when using iWebfolio. They are now avaliable at the e-Learning website.iWebfolio

• Creating an Introduction Page
• Converting my e-Portfolio to PDF using Acrobat (WinXP and Mac OS X)
• Printing your e-Portfolio–An Alternative
  Related Files:
  • 124F81_stylereport.css
  • print.css
  • 124F81_stylereport_original.css (If you want to undo the changes, save this file as “124F81_stylereport.css”)
• Linking two e-Portfolios in iWebfolio