The document discusses ePortfolios, which are digital collections of student work that allow students to organize artifacts, reflect on their learning, and share their work. It defines ePortfolios as containers to hold student work in various media types and as an ongoing process of collecting, selecting, reflecting and presenting work. The document outlines the benefits of ePortfolios for student learning and engagement, and notes some considerations for implementing ePortfolios, such as determining criteria for selecting a platform and integrating ePortfolios into teaching practices.

1. ePortfolios
Nick Rate nick.rate@core-ed.net http://nickrate.com

2. ePortfolios: A definition...
What is your current definition of an
eportfolio?

3. The ePortfolio as a Container:
...uses electronic
technologies as the container,
allowing students/teachers to
collect and organize portfolio
artifacts in many media types
(audio, video, graphics, text)...
Barrett, 2005

4. The ePortfolio as a Process:
“...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

5. “...ideas of what an e-portfolio 'is' are
complex and to an extent the
definition and purpose will
vary depending on the
perspective from which a
particular person is approaching the
concept...”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darthdowney/ JISC ePortfolio Infokit

6. ePortfolios: The purpose...
What are you trying to achieve by
implementing ePortfolios?

7. “...gives schools the
flexibility to design
and deliver
programmes that
will engage all
students and offer
them appropriate
learning pathways.”
The New Zealand Curriculum

8. Do you use...
“...teaching approaches
that consistently have a
positive impact on
student learning...”
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/ The New Zealand Curriculum

9. Do you have...
“...assessment for
the purpose of
improving
student
learning...”
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/ The New Zealand Curriculum

10. Do you use...
“...elearning to open up
new and different
ways of learning...”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47899590@N00/ The New Zealand Curriculum

11. Do you see...
“...parents and caregivers
as key partners...”
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/ The New Zealand Curriculum

12. Do you have...
“...programmes that will engage
all students...”
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/ The New Zealand Curriculum

13. Does feedback on learning...
“...develop strategies for self-
monitoring and
collaborative evaluation
of their performance in relation to
suitable criteria.”
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/ The New Zealand Curriculum

14. Are your students...
“...connected...”
www.flickr.com/photos/saschaaa The New Zealand Curriculum

15. effective pedagogy
motivation & engagement
parent involvement
ePortfolios
effective assessment
connects learners
feedback
elearning
www.flickr.com/photos/taniwha

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

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

19. Assessment for Learning:
It is based on the idea
that pupils will improve
most if they understand
the aim of their
learning, where they are
in relation to this aim
and how they can
achieve the aim (or
close the gap in their
knowledge).
QCA, 2005

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

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

22. “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

23. “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

24. “Formative assessment
does make a difference,
and it is the quality,
not just the quantity, of
feedback that
merits our closest
attention.”
Sadler, 1998

25. ePortfolios: Types...
What are you trying to achieve by
implementing ePortfolios?

26. ePortfolios
The
Accountability
ePortfolio
The The
Process Showcase
ePortfolio ePortfolio
www.flickr.com/photos/96dpi

27. The Process ePortfolio
Supports students
towards achieving their
learning goals.
www.flickr.com/photos/viernest

28. The Showcase
ePortfolio
Celebrates learning
outcomes & shows the
highest level of achievement.
www.flickr.com/photos/made2serve

29. The Accountability ePortfolio
Documents learning for achievement
www.flickr.com/photos/abbyladybug
of specific outcomes or standards.

30. ePortfolios: Benefits...
What can ePortfolios offer the learner?

31. “The use of
multimedia
tools is one strategy
that involves and
engages learners.”
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/ Barrett, 2005

32. The power of ‘student voice’
should not be underestimated.
To hear students reflecting on
their own work, in their own
voice, with their own
intonations and expressions,
conveys meaning in a
manner that is simply
not possible
in written form.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthileo/ Ian Fox 2008

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

34. “...it is the quality,
not just the quantity, of
feedback that
merits our closest
attention.”
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/ Sadler, 1998

35. “...supporting the general
process of reflection,
self-evaluation and action
planning for
lifelong learning...”
MOSEP 2007

36. “...students can
literally carry
their eportfolio
around with them and
update it at
any time in
any place.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirak/ MOSEP, 2007

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

38. ePortfolios: Process...
What do eportfolios look like in action?

39. Collect Project purpose
Select
Reflect Collect & organise
Project Select learning
Interject personality
Reflect metacognitively
Inspect to self-assess
Perfect & evaluate
Connect & conference
Inject/Eject personality
Respect accomplishments
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/ Burke, Fogarty & Belgrade (1994)

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

41. ePortfolio Learning Cycle
Exemplars,
creating LI, SC, Students working towards
matrices/rubrics new goals in their learning
Feed back Learning
& feed artifact
forward & embedded in
reflection portfolio

42. ePortfolios: The tools...
What technologies make it happen?

43. ePortfolios: The ‘container’...

44. ePortfolios: The ‘container’...

45. ePortfolios: The tools...
Have you thought about these...?

46. Should an eportfolio
include all aspects of a
student’s life and
learning?
www.flickr.com/photos/pasq

47. What happens when a student leaves
school?
Moves to a new class?
Transfers?
www.flickr.com/photos/bigtallguy

48. Who retains ownership and control?
www.flickr.com/photos/sveinhal

49. Open to the world?
www.flickr.com/photos/willfuller

50. Are your parents and teachers ready?
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/

51. Do your current internet & computer
use policies cater for eportfolios and
use of Web 2.0 tools?

52. Will your eportfolios play a role in
reporting achievement against the
National Standards?

53. Do you need a packaged solution or is
a mash-up of Web 2.0 tools OK?
www.flickr.com/photos/diathesis

54. Is it important for eportfolios in your
school to have a consistent look and
feel?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/

55. Should your school expect the teachers to
have a reflective eportfolio just as the
students do?
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/

56. ePortfolios: The criteria...
What would your criteria be for selecting
an eportfolio solution?

57. Selecting an ePortfolio Solution
Purpose and Perspectives
Student Parents
ePortfolio
Solution
School
Teacher Management/
Leadership
Government
Policy?

58. Selecting an ePortfolio Solution
Parent/School
Students Teacher Leadership
Communty
Purpose:
Non-Negotiable Criteria/features:
What capability does the eportfolio need to support this purpose?
Additional criteria/features:
What else do you want to be able to do?

59. Selecting an ePortfolio Solution
Parent /
Students Teacher Leadership
School Com
Purpose:
• Support assessment for learning. (criteria,
feedback, feedforward, peer/self-
assessment, reflection)
• Celebrate and share achievement.
• Ownership of learning
Non-Negotiable Criteria/features:
What capability does the eportfolio need to support this purpose?
• Upload/embed post learning examples
(photos, movies, Web 2.0 creations)
• Allow comments
• Ability to customise/personalise
Additional criteria/features:
What else do you want to be able to do?
Student retains ownership even if leaving or transferring schools.

60. Web based (anywhere, anytime)
Web 2.0 tool integration
Ability to comment, reflect & feedforward
Ability to demonstrate learning
Facilitate social networking
Secure
User friendly
Aesthetics
User storage space
Manageability
Expandability
Level of technical know how required
Availability of technical support
Cost
Access/edit from mobile device

61. 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.
•you need to set time aside for students to first learn
how and then to actively reflect and give feedback
on learning.
Start small, and work your way up. Get students actively blogging
in a class blog and move on to individual spaces

62. 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.

63. ePortfolios ➡ National Standards
ePortfolios ➡ mobile phones
ePortfolios ➡ live streaming
ePortfolios ➡ No container
necessary, just
mash
www.flickr.com/photos/opacity