The Digital Rucksack

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1. Slide 1: The Digital Rucksack Contents (Embarking on The Learning Journey with e-Portfolios) Wayne Barry - LTEU
2. Slide 2: The Digital Rucksack • Defining e-Portfolio Contents: • Features of e-Portfolio Contents • Roles of e-Portfolio • Uses for e-Portfolio • How e-Portfolios work • Features in Blackboard e-Portfolio • Meet Alex
3. Slide 3: The Digital Rucksack “…is a digital collection of authentic and diverse Defining e-Portfolio: evidence, drawn from a larger archive representing what a person, a community or organization has learned over time and on which the person, community or organisation has reflected, and designed for presentation to one or more audiences for a particular rhetorical purpose.” Source: Educause NLII (National Learning Infrastructure Initiative), (2003)
4. Slide 4: The Digital Rucksack “An e-portfolio is a personal digital collection of Defining e-Portfolio: information describing and illustrating a person's learning, career, experience and achievements. e- Portfolios are privately owned and the owner has complete control over who has access to what and when.” Source: EIfEL (European Institute for e-Learning), (2005)
5. Slide 5: The Digital Rucksack “…e-portfolios have emerged as a valuable online tool Defining e-Portfolio: that learners, faculty, and institutions can use to collect, store, update, and share information. e-Portfolios allow students to reflect on their learning, communicate with instructors, document credentials, and provide potential employers with examples of their work ” Source: Educause, (2005)
6. Slide 6: The Digital Rucksack “…is a personal webspace within which an individual Defining e-Portfolio: can plan, document, evidence, reflect and comment upon, and present information relating to their study or work for a variety of contexts and time periods.” A working definition?
7. Slide 7: The Digital Rucksack Features of • Uses electronic technologies as a form of “rucksack”. e-Portfolio: • Allows students to collect and organise portfolio “assets” of many media types (audio, video, graphics, text, websites, etc.). • Uses hypertext links to organise and link the material together. • Allows students to collaborate and receive feedback from tutors, mentors, peers, friends, and family.
8. Slide 8: Traditional processes: Processes using technology: • Collecting • Archiving • Selecting • Linking, connecting • Reflecting • Storytelling • Projecting • Collaborating • Presenting • Publishing • Celebrating! • Feedback to show growth and change over time
9. Slide 9: The Digital Rucksack • Portfolios of Learning - used to document and reflect upon learning Roles of over time, and to plan future learning. They can be particularly e-Portfolio: useful in linking and integrating diverse learning experiences, such as curricular and extra-curricular activities • Portfolios of Assessment - used to demonstrate achievement and competences by presenting evidence within the e-portfolio which relates to performance criteria or standards of a particular authority. • Portfolios of Experience - used, as form of web-based CV, to evidence both learning and achievement. • CPD / PDP - supporting the general process of reflection, self- evaluation and action planning for lifelong learning, including guidance on educational and/or career pathways.
10. Slide 10: The Digital Rucksack • Expression of self-identity. Uses for • Powerful tool for representation, reflection and revision. e-Portfolio: • Document knowledge, skills, abilities, and learning. • Track development within a programme / module. • Showcase accomplishments to prospective employers. • Tool for assessment of learning, professional development, and accreditation. • Monitor and evaluate personal performance. • Enables feedback and exchange of comments between author and tutors, mentors or peers. • Enables the formation of communities of learning through various modes of communication.
11. Slide 11: The Digital Rucksack How e-Portfolios work:
12. Slide 12: Ability View Achievement Comment Create Shared Copy Action Plan Published Collaborate Edit Experience Asset Printed Meeting Linked Review Thought Blog Scans Portfolio Pictures Files CV Movies Sounds Transcript
13. Slide 13: Placement Action Plan Placement Reflections Experience Placement Module 1 Report Abilities Audit Feedback Module 1 Module 1 Officer Placement SU Reflections Placement CV Initial Diagnostic Presentation Assessment Module 4 Work My Thoughts Experience Transferred From College My Thoughts Personal Tutor Careers Meeting Feedback Action Plan Personal Module 5 Stuff Careers Meeting The Digital Rucksack as a growing asset store
14. Slide 14: The Digital Rucksack • User interface is simple to use. Features in • Uses a powerful WYSIWYG editor to create bolder and Blackboard more interesting text, graphical or hypertext entries. e-Portfolio: • Special templates designed to aid personalisation and can provide structure. • A personal and private space. • Can share assets with people inside or outside of the Institution for user-defined periods of time. • Sharing allows users to invite others to access the assets they share with permissions to view, comment, copy or collaborate on individual records or collections like portfolios. • The collaboration facility means, for example, that users working on a joint project can collectively create assets. • Can embed photos, videos, flash presentations and special HTML features.
15. Slide 15: The Digital Rucksack • Degrees in Palaeontology & Museum Studies Meet Alex • Alex uses e-portfolios for: – Personal Use – Course Assessment – Personal Development Planning – Research – Work Based Learning