Intended Outcomes: - Identify the strengths and weaknesses in leading the PALSI sessions - Identify possible solutions to the challenges faced - Explain how ePortfolios can help manage & present one's learning, development and accomplishments Activities: - Self reflection on the PALSI sessions & performance using the SWOT analysis & a simple survey - Discussion on problems faced and possible solutions through small group discussion, i.e. think-pair-share - Lecture on basic concepts of ePortfolios - Demonstration of a portfolio using a celebrity as a sample

1. PALSI Leaders Workshop II
Peer Assisted Learning using Supplemental Instruction (PALSI)
Hokling Cheung
Office of Education Development and General
Education (EDGE)
11 October, 2011

2. My PALSI sessions
What are my strengths or expertise as a What possible solutions &
PALSI Leader opportunities arise in my PALSI group?
What are my weaknesses or needs as a What problems, challenges or issues my
PALSI Leader PALSI group is facing?

3. Please indicate to what extent you agree with the following descriptions of
YOU in the PALSI sessions so far. “I am ..
not prepared at all well prepared for each session
-2 -1 0 1 2
anxious to deal with people happy to deal with people
-2 -1 0 1 2
worried about my subject mastery very confident about my subject
mastery
-2 -1 0 1 2
feel confused with the clearly understand the
administrative procedures & administrative procedures &
requirements -2 -1 0 1 2 requirements
It aims not to evaluate your
performance but to aid your
reflection and help inform us with
your needs.

4. Any other issues
Please write on the back of the page.

5. Image this …
Time really flies
and
you are about to graduate
in a month’s time

6. My Portfolio
What is the most remarkable
Who are you? work or artifact to showcase
What you aspire to be? or evidence your claims?
What are your expertise &
accomplishments?
Who will be the audience and for what
purpose is it? What would be their
expectation?
Is there any objective
recognition of your work and
experience?

7. Who are you? Who will be the audience and What is the most remarkable Is there any objective
for what purpose is it? What work or artifact to showcase or recognition of your work and
What you aspire to be? would be their expectation? evidence your claims? experience?
What are your expertise &
accomplishments?

8. ePortfolio for Learning
Outcomes Extrinsic Motivation
attend classes
relate
Reflection, Feedback &
complete assignments Activities + Outcomes
Dialogue
take examinations Outcomes + Goals
ePortfolio: Goals, Action get the grades Goals + Actions
Plans, Accomplishment ,
internalise
Reflection, Collection of
Artifacts, Qualification enjoy the break
Intrinsic Motivation

9. Technologies have enabled us to
take snapshots of communicate
different moments of everywhere
life
capture the motion of interact in different
time and interaction ways
record the music of make all the things
laughters and tears much more portable
and sharable

10. What are my goals?
“We do not learn from How can I achieve them?
experiences; we learn from How should I live my life?
reflecting on our
experiences.”
ePortfolios
John Dewey 1933
I am unique.
I am interested in …  self-management
My expertise is …
 reflective lifestyles
 express ourselves
 communication and
employability
passion and
directions for life
Constructive use of technologies

11. Global Trend
Europe Europass to increase transparency
of qualification/mobility of citizens
UK Personal Development Planning (PDP)
Australia development of graduate
capabilities
US reflective learning and personal
development
Canada Graduation Portfolio Assessment
HK Outcomes-Based Teaching & Learning
(OBTL), Student Learning Profile (SLP) & Other
Learning Experience (OLE)

12. Driving Forces
– National policy (Mobility of Citizens)
POLICY – Course/Programme/School level
– Student centered learning
LEARNING
– Graduate capabilities
OUTCOMES
– Generic skills & knowledge for real-world applications
– Employment, Job search/ Transparency of Qualifications
EMPLOYABILITY
– Appraisal, Tenure and promotion processes
– Infusion of technology/ Empowerment of individuals
TECHNOLOGY
– Digital, Not Physical!
– Outcomes based teaching & learning
QUALITY
ASSURANCE – Authentic and performance assessment
– Institutional achievement/ improvement
GUIDANCE – Academic advising
– Career consultation
LIFELONG – Whole Person Development
LEARNING – Lifelong learning

13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E6v9lnktlM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbqmOLu4hwY
Brevity & first hand
wisdom were found in
What have you learnt from his talk.
being a PALSI Leader? How
would you describe this
experience?

14. ePortfolios
self process product
Personal particulars Learning Showcase
Biography Development Assessment
Values & Beliefs
Plan Execution Graduate
Goals
Aspirations Documentation Employment
Reflection Professional
Styles
Interests & Hobbies
+ Collaboration + Appraisal
IDENTITY MANAGEMENT (frequent PRESENTATION
update, sharing, dialogic feedback &
collaboration)

15. ePortfolios: Plan, Manage, Reflect and Present Your
Goals, Accomplishments and Expertise
I continue to study
for a higher degree.
The learning portfolio I can easily create my CV Having worked for a
helps me to transit to the and employment few years, I need to
university’s study and life portfolios for job carefully determine My professional
with a clear goal and application. More my career path. ePortfolio showcase
direction. importantly I have been my efforts and
Check out my learning planning and preparing dedications over the
outcomes and well for it! years!
My boss is
achievements please!
impressed by
I am so proud of myself.
ePortfolio for
event organisation workshops community services performance
study trip courses exchange appraisal! publications
final year project
course work internship
part-time jobs awards professional membership
group projects Student unions community services
Learning & Development Graduation Continuing Professional Development

16. Types of Portfolios
• Learning portfolios
• Employment/Career/Professional portfolios
• Assessment portfolios
• Showcase portfolios
• Personal development portfolios
• Teaching portfolios
• Training portfolios
“These different “types” of ePortfolios reflect the fact that
ePortfolios are being produced and consumed (used) in many
different processes, or to manage different processes.”
Serge Ravet
http://www.eife-l.org/publications/eportfolio/documentation/positionpaper

17. Generic Structure of ePortfolios
PROFILE Personal particulars, biography, values & beliefs,
interests and hobbies etc
SUMMARY Purpose, audience, achievements and
development, reflection and future direction
SHOWCASE Representative work & evidence
Official recognition of achievements,
QUALIFICATIONS
qualifications, contribution and participation

18. Need a sample portfolio?
An example …

19. Summary
“You’ve got to find what you love,” Steve Jobs
A speech in Stanford’s commencement dated June 12, 2005 When we are motivated by goals
that have deep meaning, by dreams
that need completion, by pure love
that needs expressing, then we truly
live life. Greg Anderson
Image sources: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
http://www.sloganmaker.net/2011/08/love-what-you-do/

20. Profile
Connecting the dots ..
See also “The life and work of Steve Jobs”
http://timelines.latimes.com/steve-jobs/

21. Showcase

22. Qualifications
Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak received
First National Medal of Technology, 1976
Obama remembers Steve Jobs
as visionary, innovator. (2011)
“CEO of the Decade”
Fortune, 2009

23. Retrieved from Customer THINK.com
http://www.customerthink.com/blog/remembering_steve_jobs

24. Credits & thanks to the image sources
STANFORD UNIVERSITY - News
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
BNET
http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/with-steve-jobs-passing-apple-loses-its-top-sales-
advertising-and-pr-man/10399
BeHance NETWORK
Illustration by Charis Tsevis (Tsevis Visual Design)
Photography by Corbis
Apple products courtesy by Apple Inc
iPhone app icons by their respective owners
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Steve-Jobs-and-Apples-DNA/371851
MacDailyNews
http://macdailynews.com/2011/04/27/woz-to-hold-fireside-chat-at-esc-silicon-valley-conference-
on-tuesday-may-3/

25. Wikipedia.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Medal_of_Technology_and_Innovation
INSIDE GRAPHICS
http://www.insidegraphics.com/visiting_cards/visiting_cards_fonts.asp
APPLE INC
http://www.apple.com/hk/imac/
Kirin
http://kirinblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/imac-medres.jpg
Slogan Maker. NET
http://www.sloganmaker.net/2011/08/love-what-you-do/

26. Business Over Broadway, Bob E. Hayes, Ph.D.
Retrieved from Customer THINK.com
http://www.customerthink.com/blog/remembering_steve_jobs
APPLE INC
http://www.apple.com/iphone

27. "A certain amount of opposition is a
great help to a man. Kites rise against,
not with, the wind." John Neal