Supporting Learning with Technology: E-portfolio

Presented by: Dua’a Mohamed, Mike Gauthier, and Cierra Andrews

Table of ContentWhat is an e-portfolio?Why use an e-portfolio?Types of e-portfoliosThe benefits of the e-portfolioHow they support learningExamples of e-portfoliosUseful Websites

What is an E-portfolio?By definition:

◦An e-portfolio is a learner-created collection of digital items (artifacts).

◦ “ E-portfolios are meant to be more than simply a collection of students work stored in an electronic format. Rather, they are intended to purposefully exhibit students’ efforts, progress and achievements” p.247

Howland, J. L., Jonassen, D., & Marra, R. M. (2011). Meaningful learning with technology. Allyn & Bacon.

Why an E-portfolio? According to the QEP

◦ Involves students in their learning ◦ Allows students to increase their ability to self-evaluate ◦ Teaches students to make choices ◦ Encourages students to better understand themselves

and focus on their strengths ◦ Allows students to reflect on their procedures,

strategies, and accomplishments◦ Promotes feedback during the learning process◦ Encourages students to reflect on their strengths,

needs, errors, interests, challenges, and objectives ◦ Encourages interactive processes among students,

teachers, and parents◦ Shows student progress

Wade,et al.(2005) “An Electronic Portfolio to Support Learning.” Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, Volume 31(3).

Types of PortfoliosWorking Portfolios

◦ Displays a student’s best work. These portfolios allow for feedback from the viewer in order for the student to improve their work and/or thought process.

Example: Artist’s Portfolio◦ Artist portfolios are composed of a variety of

different works to display the student’s style and progress over the many years.

◦ These portfolios can also contain compositions to show the experience a student has in different art fields.

Types of PortfoliosStandards-based Portfolios

o A portfolio which students are entitled to create over the course of a year so that their teacher can assure that the content within it is meeting curriculum requirements.

o Used to evaluate whether or not students are having a positive or negative learning experience.

o They can also help a teacher evaluate what they might be doing right or wrong within their teachings, what strategies they enjoy the most, and how responsive students they are to each strategy. After evaluation, the teacher can put their newly developed teaching strategies to the test.

Types of PortfoliosExternal Evaluation Portfolio

◦ A collective portfolio that contains external works to depict that a total school grade has met the curriculum requirements.

◦ These portfolios can contain information from school/board wide surveys about what students would like and what they don’t like about the daily schedules.

Benefits Developing E-Portfolios

Minimal storage space Easy to create back-up files Portability Long shelf life Learner-centered Increases technology skills Hypertext linksQuick access (especially web portfolios)

http://eltchat.com/2011/11/04/e-portfolio-for-students-and-teachers-%E2%80%93-eltchat-summary-26102011

More Benefits of E-Portfolios Can be used to provide peer-teacher or peer-peer

feedback such that students can make modifications and improve their previous work. This can range from teachers providing anecdotes and observations as well as notes from student-teacher conferences.

They can provide teachers with insights on how much his/her students are progressing through the curriculum.

Can provide work progress insights which can range from reading/writing logs, writing samples, work samples, etc.

Can provide guidelines for schools, teachers and districts on how to meet state/national standards as well as if they are meeting those standards already.

Students’ voices “The e-portfolio experience gave me a chance to find out about the skills I

should be learning in college and there are ways that I can keep track of how I am doing. I was not taught how to think in terms of outcomes of skills so it was kind of challenging at first. When I was trying to figure out what types of knowledge, skills, or abilities I had learned from volunteer or internship experiences, it was very helpful to go to the Pathways Outcomes in my e-portfolio and think about how they applied to the experiences I was writing about for my public portfolio.” Third-year student, University of Michigan

“I didn’t realize the importance of the work I was doing… all the communication skills I was learning while doing research.… When I had a chance to reflect on it and was asked to describe the experience to others in my e-portfolio, I realized that I had learned a lot more than I thought. I was so focused on getting into business school, that if I had not had the space to stop and reflect on my experiences, I would have never known how I much I actually gained from everything I did my first year.” Second-year student, University of Michigan

Millier, R. (2009). “The Benefits of E-portfolios for Students and Faculty in Their Own Words”. Association of American Colleges and Universities, vol.1 (1). http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-wi09/pr-wi09_benefits.cfm

Create Your OwnE-Pearl:

http://grover.concordia.ca/epearl/promo/en/index.php

Student Jotter: http://www.studentjotter.com/

FolioSpaces: http://www.foliospaces.com/

E-Portfolio.org: https://www.eportfolio.org/index.cfm

Notable Websiteshttp

://eduscapes.com/tap/topic82.htm

http://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioapps/overview/levels

http://www.esao.net/index.phphttp://miguelescotet.com/

Professional E-Portfolios

References Howland, J. L., Jonassen, D., & Marra, R. M. (2011).

Meaningful learning with technology. Allyn & Bacon.

Wade, et al.(2005). “An Electronic Portfolio to Support Learning”. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, Volume 31(3).

Millier, R. (2009). “The Benefits of E-portfolios for Students and Faculty in Their Own Words”. Association of American Colleges and Universities, volume1 (1). http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-wi09/pr-wi09_benefits.cfm

http://eltchat.com/2011/11/04/e-portfolio-for-students-and-teachers-%E2%80%93-eltchat-summary-26102011