My little statement about e-portfolios.
How it was before?
Traditionally, portfolios have been stored in boxes and three-ring binders. Although this format works fine for paper and other print-based materials, it misses many other ways of communicating ideas.
So what we have now?
Over the past decade, many people have found electronic portfolios as an effective way to more clearly present information not only through text, but also through visuals, audio, and video formats. Documents can be stored on hard drives, Zip disks, or CD-ROM in many digital formats such as text documents, picture files, web pages, digital video, and presentation files. They can be stored on hard drives, Zip disks, websites, or CD-ROM.
What is a purpose?
The implementation of electronic portfolios in a preservice education curriculum requires a well-defined purpose, framework and standards that support the integration of technology into teaching and learning. The purpose and framework of portfolios can be achieved if conceived as a primary tool for examining growth and development related to the specific standards and competencies.
What kind of benefits and outcomes?
Electronic portfolios are a unique way to document student progress, encourage improvement and motivate involvement in learning. There are a variety of tools for constructing electronic teaching portfolios. The choice of software can either restrict or enhance the development process and the quality of the final product. Online research using these tools is now being conducted to determine the best technological strategy to use, based on a variety of human and technological factors.
Hi,Umid,
ReplyDeleteI like your slides, most entertaining, but I feel that you have a rather narrow view of what an e-Portfolio can do for learners and for learning. Much has happened over the last few years but most of your references are some 5 years old!
Much of what you discuss can be delivered within a standard institutional VLE. - So what is the USP of the e-Portfolio? - Surely it is about: 1. Ownership and self-representation - of being able to say 'This is ME!' - of being able to organise and select appropriate artefacts.
2. Following on from this is the ability to share or collaborate within a closed group and encourage peer-review.
3. The outcome of the above must be the ability to share certain parts of the e-Portfolio with selected audiences.
4. And, as a result of the above, to be able to reflect and express one's evaluation of the processes that one has inevitably experienced.
As a technologist AND an educationist I would suggest that it is not primarily about determining "the best technological strategy to use", but rather the teaching and learning strategies should comprehend emergent collaborative processes and thus use any technologogical solutions presently abvailable to us.
A recent slideshow I used really needs some documentation, but for now, have a look at:
http://www.slideshare.net/maximise/why-so-many-eportfolios/17
or my blog at: www.efoliointheuk.blogspot.com
Kindest Regards,
Ray T