Our schools journey in exploring the use of eportfolios.

1. ePortfolios
The story so far...
Nick Rate nickrate@gmail.com http://nickrate.com

2. “...gives schools the
flexibility to design
and deliver
programmes that
will engage all
students and offer
them appropriate
learning pathways.”

3. Do you use...
“...teaching approaches
that consistently have a
positive impact on
student learning...”

4. Do you have...
“...assessment for
the purpose of
improving
student
learning...”

5. Do you use...
“...elearning to open up
new and different
ways of learning...”

6. Do you see...
“...parents and caregivers
as key partners...”

7. Do you have...
“...programmes that will engage
all students...”

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9. Engage, motivate, create,
collaborate, share, present...
eLEARNING
ePORTFOLIO
Effective Pedagogy &
Assessment:
ASSESSMENT
Participation, interaction, FOR
collaboration, social networking...
LEARNING
Web 2.0

10. You and ePortfolios
Questionnaire
Please go to:
http://nickrate.com and click:
Link 1: My ePortfolio Story
(results on screen...)

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12. The ePortfolio:
...uses electronic
technologies as the container,
allowing students/teachers to
collect and organize portfolio
artifacts in many media types
(audio, video, graphics, text)...
connecting evidence to appropriate
outcomes, goals or standards.
Barrett, 2005

13. The ePortfolio:
“...what is produced when persons
collect, select, reflectively
interpret, and/or present their own
evidence to support their assertions
about what they have
learned, know and can or
should do...”
Cambridge, 2003

14. “The use of
multimedia
tools is one strategy
that involves and
engages learners.” Barrett, 2005

16. “...opens wide the possibilities for
reflections... in action, before
action, after action, in solitude, in
consultation with peers, in
consultation with instructors...
written, spoken,
videotaped, or
graphically
represented...”
Riedinger., 2006

18. social networking
...the
potential of the learning landscape
and eportfolio-related tools are
facilitate and
features that
enhance the making of
connections and the linking
together of people, ideas,
resources and learning...
Tosh et al., 2006

19. ...to define e-Portfolios as a
process, rather than
just a product or a
technological system.
Attwell, 2007

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22. 2007 ePortfolios & PMI
on your CD
folder: eportfolios
select student and open folder
open index.html file to view portfolios
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Please go to:
http://nickrate.com and click:
Link 2: ePortfolio PMI
(your feedback on screen...)

25. ...assessment for learning
is one of the most powerful ways of
improving learning and
raising standards.
Assessment Reform Group, 2002

26. “Good planning is
essential to being clear.”
Absolum, 2006

27. “Embedded in a view of
teaching and learning, of which
it is an essential part.”
Assessment Reform Group, 1999

28. “The awareness of
learning and the
ability of learners to
direct it for
themselves is of
increasing importance in
the context of
encouraging lifelong
learning.” Assessment Reform Group, 1999

29. “What this amounts to is that
self-assessment by
pupils, far from being a luxury, is in
essential
fact an
component of formative
assessment.”
Black & Wiliam, 1998

30. Nick’s AFL & ePortfolio Cycle
Exemplars,
creating LI, SC, Students working towards Future learning
matrices/rubrics new goals in their learning
“finished”
1st draft
teachers example
of writing
Learning Learning
peers Feed back Feed back
story
artifact artifact video
& feed & feed
board
demonstrated demonstrated
forward & forward &
self in portfolio in portfolio
reflection reflection
brainstorm 2nd draft
family

31. Collect
Select
Reflect
Project
Burke, Fogarty & Belgrade (1994)

32. ePortfolios 2009
Please go to:
http://nickrate.com and click:
Link 4: ePortfolios 2009. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5.
1 = Year 6 girl
2 = Year 5 boy
3 = Year 6 boy
4 = Year 5 girl
5 = Year 5 boy

33. ePortfolio Management...
In order to be effective and support the process of student
learning, eportfolios:
•need to be embedded into your teaching and
learning.
•require a high level of access to technology.
•and you need to set time aside for students to actively
reflect on learning in their eportfolio environment.
Start small, and work your way up. Get students actively blogging
in a class blog and move on to individual spaces

34. ePortfolio Management...
ePortfolios do not add to your workload. Instead you will need
to change some of the ways you:
• give feedback
• facilitate reflection
• engage students in self and peer assessments
and
• you need to adapt learning and teaching so that
the process and outcomes can be shared
digitally within the eportfolio platform.

35. Web 2.0 & your school & your students...
copyright
parent understanding
cybersafety
bandwidth
blocked sites
cost
age restrictions
computer &
internet use policies
computer &
privacy
internet user
permissions agreements

36. ePortfolios 2009
Please go to:
http://nickrate.com and click:
Link 5: Future Proofing our Web 2.0
students.
Read-Think-Pair-Share

37. Where to...
“Learning that
happens
mlearning
across
moblogging
locations, or
mfolios
that takes
mportfolios
advantage of
learning
opportunities
offered by
portable
technologies.”
Wikipedia

38. “...students can
carry
literally
their eportfolio
around with them and
update it at
any time in
any place.”
MOSEP, 2007

39. The iPhone or iPod Touch as an example...

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