Paul Leslie gave a presentation on idea management for teaching and learning. He discussed the need for students to capture ideas from group and personal work, share, manipulate, reconfigure, and carry ideas forward. However, students currently lack ways to effectively store and manage their ideas. Leslie proposed using tools like Google Drive, YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn to allow students to create personal and community portfolios for storing ideas. These portfolios could then be used for assessment of learning.

1. P R E S E N T A T I O N T O T H E C U R R I C U L U M A D V I S O R T E A M
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P A U L L E S L I E
Idea Management
for Teaching and Learning
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The Problem
Ideas
Capture
from group
work
Share from
personal
work
Manipulate
and reflect
Reconfigure
and
transform
Carry
forward and
integrate
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3. 3
The Problem
Ideas
Capture
from group
work
Share from
personal
work
Manipulate
and reflect
Reconfigure
and
transform
Carry
forward and
integrate
Where are they?
29 July 2016Dr. Paul Leslie - WSU Office of the PVC Learning Transformations

4. 4
The Context
Individual
effort
• Preparing for
class
• Making notes
Community
effort
• Group work
• Social
construction
Idea creation
• Medium is the
message
• Narratives of
learning
• Making thinking
visible
Idea
Management
• Preserve for
reflection
• Articulation
• learning
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5. 5
The Context
Repeat
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6. 6
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model
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7. 7
Learning Styles
Remember
and Learn
Auditory
• Listen to
classmates
• Listen to
content
Visual
• Look at ideas
• Concept maps
• Imagery
Kinesthetic
• Type, write,
manipulate
• Move,
gesticulate
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8. 8
Learning Styles
Remember
and Learn
Auditory
• Listen to
classmates
• Listen to
content
Visual
• Look at ideas
• Concept maps
• Imagery
Kinesthetic
• Type, write,
manipulate
• Move,
gesticulate
• Many students do not know how
they learn
• Many people do not know how
they learn
29 July 2016Dr. Paul Leslie - WSU Office of the PVC Learning Transformations

9. 9
Narratives of learning: Introduction
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Capturing Processes with Products -unintentional

10. 10
Narratives of learning: Introduction
29 July 2016Dr. Paul Leslie - WSU Office of the PVC Learning Transformations
Capturing Processes with Products - intentional

11. 11
Curation
• For showcase and assessment purposes,
documents and ideas can be pulled from
the personal workspace
• As noted earlier, when students show
their best work, where do they keep the
other work?
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12. 12
Narratives of learning: Introduction
 As Freire (1998) notes, we must create for our students and
colleagues “the possibilities for the production and construction of
knowledge” (p. 30).
Freire, P. (1998). Pedagogy of freedom. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman
& Littlefield.
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13. 13
Not Cool
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14. 14
Cloud Storage
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So…
 Format
 Personal ideas
 Community ideas
 Competency Portfolio
 Assessment
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16. 16
So…
 Personal Portfolio
 Google Drive
 use their own cloud storage tools for the actual storage of their data in its various formats. There are a variety of different tools
available.
 Google is recommended because it offers
 an integrated range of tools
 longevity for the account
 easier access to other account holders
 ample storage space
 YouTube
 provides a video platform.
 Twitter
 can hold links, articles,
 Share ideas
 LinkedIn
 Profile, employment related groups and discussions
 Great source of professional communities
 Can be linked in showcase, used for communication, updated and shared

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So…
 Community Portfolio
 Google docs
 Synchronous editing
 Exports to Word, Excel, PPT.
 Supports forms
 Documents and videos from these platforms and from social media including
Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. can be easily embedded.
 vUWS
 Discussion boards, wikis,
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So…
 Competency Portfolio
 Blogger
 Can hold embedded documents, RSS feeds from Twitter, LinkedIn profile etc.
 Can be used for reflective writing and exported.
 Can be closed, shared, partially or fully public.
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So…
 Assessment
 Contents:
 The contents can be assessed as individual items.
 Classroom activities
 Work sheets
 Quizzes and results
 Presentations
 The collection itself can be assessed for such aspects as:
 Completeness / inclusion of
 Instructor and / or peer feedback
 Individual homework items
 Reflections on activities
 Presentation of contents
 Ease of access to contents
 Curation
 Are the contents representative of some element of the unit e.g. real world examples of unit content found in
media / imagery
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