Keynote address at Richland2 Google Summit, June 7, 2012

1. ePortfolios as
Digital Stories of
Deep Learning
Dr. Helen Barrett
International Researcher & Consultant
University of Alaska Anchorage (retired)
Seattle Pacific University (adjunct)
REAL ePortfolio Academy (founder)
electronicportfolios.org
Twitter: @eportfolios • Google+: Helen Barrett
Electronic Portfolios and Digital Storytelling for Lifelong and Life Wide Learning

2. Focus of Presentation
• Reflection and multimedia strategies
to support metacognition
• "capturing the moment" with
mobile devices
• blogging/reflective journals
for in-depth reflection
• digital storytelling

3. Simon Sinek’sGolden Circle
product
process
motivation
3

4. WHAT?

5. specialty case responsibilities
Portfolio
One Word,
Many Meanings
art work collection of artifacts investments

6. Who was the
first famous
“folio” keeper?
Definitions

7. Leonardo da Vinci’s Folio

8. What is a Portfolio?
• Dictionary definition:
a flat, portable case
for carrying loose
papers, drawings, etc.
• Financial portfolio: document
accumulation of fiscal capital
• Educational portfolio: document
development of human capital

9. +Electronic
• digital artifacts organized online
combining various media
(audio/video/text/images)

10. E-Portfolio Components
< Multiple Portfolios for
Multiple Purposes
-Celebrating Learning
-Personal Planning
-Transition/entry to courses
-Employment applications
-Accountability/Assessment
< Multiple Tools to
Support Processes
-Capturing & storing evidence
-Reflecting
-Giving & receiving feedback
-Planning & setting goals
-Collaborating
-Presenting to an audience
< Digital Repository
(Becta, 2007; JISC, 2008)

11. WHY?

12. What is Your Online
Personal Brand?
E-portfolios can help us
build a positive online
identity.

13. Digital Identity
• Creating a positive digital footprint

14. Lifelong Context for E-
Portfolios

15. E-Portfolios in
Generational
Contexts
1. Family – Birth & up
2. Formal Education
• K-12 - Schools
• Adult/Post Secondary Education
3. Workplace – Professions
4. Retirement – Legacy

16. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/201
Digital Birth: 01006006722/en/Digital-Birth-Online-World
Welcome to the Online World
• Mothers with children aged under two (N=2200) that have
uploaded images of their child (2010)
• Overall – 81%
• USA – 92%
• Canada - 84%
• (EU5 - 73%)
UK - 81% France - 74% Italy - 68% Germany - 71% Spain –
71%
• Australia – 84%
• New Zealand – 91%
• Japan - 43%
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sailbit/3329477282/
The research was conducted by Research Now among 2200 mothers with young (under two) children during the week of 27
September. Mothers in the EU5 (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain), Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan
were polled.

17. 5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence
Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years
1. Social networking use is skyrocketing while email is
plummeting
2. You can’t find jobs traditionally anymore
3. People are managing their careers as entrepreneurs
4. The traditional resume is now virtual and easy to
build
5. Job seeker passion has become the deciding
factor in employment
http://blogs.forbes.com/danschawbel/2011/02/21/5-reasons-why-your-online-
presence-will-replace-your-resume-in-10-years/

18. Dan Schawbel, Forbes
“personal branding guru”
“Your online presence
communicates, or should
communicate, what you’re truly and
genuinely passionate about… I firmly
believe that you won’t be able to
obtain and sustain a job without
passion anymore.”
• http://blogs.forbes.com/danschawbel/2011/02/21/5-reasons-why-your-online-
presence-will-replace-your-resume-in-10-years/

19. Four key pillars of Lifelong Learning
(Barbara Stäuble, Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2005/refereed/stauble.html

20. Knowing the learner
(Self-awareness)
• Understanding prior knowledge
• Motivation for and attitudes toward
learning
• Help learners understand
themselves
• See their growth over time

21. Planning for learning
(Self management)
• Setting goals
• Develop a plan
to achieve
these goals

22. Understanding how to learn
(Meta-learning)
• Awareness of learners to
different approaches to
learning
• Deep vs. Surface Learning,
Rote vs. Meaningful Learning
• Different Learning Styles
• Help learners recognize success
• Accommodate approaches that are
not successful

23. Evaluating learning
(Self monitoring)
• Systematic analysis of learners’
performance
• Responsibility to construct meaning
• Be reflective & think critically
• Learners construct meaning,
monitor learning, evaluate
own outcomes

24. Reflection:
The “Heart and Soul”
of a Portfolio
Metacognition = “thinking about thinking"

25. What is Reflection?
• Major theoretical roots:
• Dewey
• Habermas
• Kolb
• Schön
• Dewey: “We do not learn
from experience… we learn
from reflecting on
experience.”

26. Self-Regulated Learning
Abrami, P., et. al. (2008), Encouraging self-regulated learning through electronic portfolios.
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, V34(3) Fall 2008.
http://www.cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/viewArticle/507/238
Goals Captions/Journa
ls
Change over Time

27. Learning/Reflection Cycle
blog
Why?
(double-loop learning)
Now What?
What?
So What? website

28. Workshop 11:30-12:20

29. Portfolio Learning
Experience
Reviewing Feeling
Publishing & Selecting Recording
Sharing &
Receiving Synthesizing Dialogue Organizing
Planning Collaborating
Feedback
Understanding Conceptualizin
Reflecting
g
& Constructing
Meaning
Figure 2 A model of e-portfolio-based learning, adapted from
Kolb (1984) JISC, 2008, Effective Practice with e-Portfolios, p.
9

30. QUOTE
 The e-portfolio is the central
and common point for the
student learning experience… It
is a reflection of the student as
a person undergoing continuous
personal development,
not just a store of evidence.
-Geoff Rebbeck, e-Learning Coordinator, Thanet College,
quoted in JISC, 2008, Effective Practice with e-Portfolios

31. Deep Learning
• involves reflection,
• is developmental,
• is integrative,
• is self-directive, and
• is lifelong
Cambridge (2004)

32. “metacognition lies at
the root of all learning”
“…self-knowledge, awareness of how and
why we think as we do, and the ability to
adapt and learn, are critical to our survival as
individuals…”
- James Zull (2011) From Brain to Mind: Using Neuroscience to
Guide Change in Education

33. Temple at Delphi
“Know Thyself”

34. Managing Oneself
Peter Drucker, (2005) Harvard Business Review
• What are my strengths?
• “Success in the
knowledge economy • How do I perform?
comes to those who
know themselves – • What are my values?
their strengths, their
• Where do I belong?
values, and how best
they perform.” • What should I contribute?
• Purpose: Use e- • Responsibility for
portfolios for Relationships
managing knowledge • The Second Half of your Life
workers' career

35. What about
Motivation?
Why would a student want to put all that
work into developing an ePortfolio?
How do we make it relevant?

36. Similarities in Process
• Major differences:
• extrinsic vs.
• intrinsic motivation
• Elements of True
(Intrinsic) Motivation:
• Autonomy
• Mastery
• Purpose

37. Help Students Find
Purpose and Passion
Through Reflection
&Goal-Setting in
E-Portfolio Development

38. HOW?

39. Balancing the Two Faces of
E-Portfolios
Presentation
Working Portfolio
Portfolio(s)
Digital Archive The “Story” or Narrative
(Repository of
Artifacts)
Docs Multiple Views
Sites (public/private)
Collaboration Space
Varied Audiences &
Reflective Journal Blog Purposes
Portfolio as Portfolio as
Process Product
Workspace Showcase

40. Teacher Portfolios
Working Portfolio Showcase Portfolio
• Keep a Reflective Journal • What is your purpose?
(10 minutes every Friday!) Who is your audience?
• Tweet with your PLN - • Select and reflect on
Collaborate/Share with the highlights of your
Colleagues year/career
• Save everything in Google • Model for your
Drive/Docs (digital students!
archive)

41. Examples
Collection (Google Drive/Docs)
Reflection, Feedback (Blogger)
Showcase (Google Sites)

42. Level 1 - Collection

43. Level 2: Primary Purpose: Learning/Reflection

44. Level 3:
Level 3: Primary Purpose: Showcase/Accountability
Showcase
Portfolio

45. Is the Future
of E-Portfolio
Development
in your Pocket?
• “Capture the Moment” – Reflection in the Present Tense
• What am I learning at this moment?
• Using the tools in our pockets!

46. With iOS
(iPod Touch,
iPhone,
iPad)
Text
Image Capture the
s Moment
Audio “everydayness”

47. Learning is a Conversation
E-portfolios should be
more
Conversation
than Presentation
Because Conversation
transforms!

48. Twitter
micro-blogging
“tiny bursts of learning

49. Post to from
Mobile Phones
• Send email to pre-arranged email address
• Use BlogPressiOS app ($2.99)
• Set up Blogger Mobile and
send SMS

50. Blogging* by eMail
*the act of sharing yourself
Tumblr Posterous
• Set up account on website • Just email to
post@posterous.com
• Send email to:
myaccount.tumblr.com • iPhone App
• iPhone App • Cross-post to Facebook&
• Call in your posts for audio Twitter
post to blog
• Cross-post to Facebook&
Twitter

51. Do Your E-Portfolios have
CHOICE and VOICE?
• Individual Identity
• Reflection
• Meaning Making
• 21st Century Literacy
• Digital Story of Deep Learning

52. Portfolio as Story
"A portfolio tells a story.
It is the story of knowing. Knowing
about things... Knowing oneself...
Knowing an audience... Portfolios
are students' own stories of what
they know, why they believe they
know it, and why others should be of
the same opinion.”
(Paulson & Paulson, 1991, p.2)

53. Roger Schank, Tell Me a Story
“Telling stories and listening to
other people's stories shape the
memories we have of our
experiences.”
Stories help us organize our
experience and define our sense of

54. Digital Storytelling Process
• Create a 2-to-4 minute digital video
clip
• First person narrative
[begins with a written script ~ 400 words]
• Told in their own voice [record script]
• Illustrated (mostly) by still images
• Music track to add emotional tone

56. Convergence

57. Workshop 10:30-11:20
Digital Storytelling Process

59. A Reminder…
Reflection & Relationships
… the “Heart and Soul” of an
e-portfolio…
NOT the Technology!
59

60. My Final Wish…
• dynamic celebrations
• stories of deep learning
• across the lifespan
60

61. My Story

62. Dr. Helen Barrett
@eportfolios
Researcher & Consultant
Electronic Portfolios & Digital Storytelling for Lifelong and Life
Wide Learning
eportfolios@gmail.com
http://electronicportfolios.org/
http://slideshare.net/eportfolios
https://sites.google.com/site/mportfolios/