1. Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2012-09-13

2. Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2012-09-13
SOCIAL
MEDIA
LEARNING DIARY
FEEDS AND READERSMULTIMEDIA
CONTENTS
SOCIAL
INTERACTION
REPLACEMENT FOR A TRADITIONAL
WEBPAGE?
SIMPLE AND FREE
PUBLICITY
STRUCTURED IN
CERTAIN WAY
GROUP BLOGS
BLOGGERS’
NETWORKS
COMMENTS AND DISCUSSIONS
NEW WAYS OF EXPRESSING
YOURSELF
DIGITAL
PORTFOLIO
PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT (PLE)

3. Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2012-09-13
• A collection of documents that have been chosen to
demonstrate person’s expertise, skills, learning and
development
• Portfolio is always personal and unique
(e-portfolio) means a portfolio
that contains digital documents and different kinds of
media contents.
• Usually digital portfolios are published in the internet

4. Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2012-09-13
, which is a
record of things that the owner has done over a
period of time, and may be directly tied to learning
outcomes.
includes personal
reflection on the content and what it means for the
owner’s development.
that shows
the owner’s achievements in relation to particular
work or developmental goals.
• When portfolio is used for job applications it can be
called also a .

5. Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2012-09-13
How can you make
your learning visible?

6. Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2012-09-13
, and
• Contains:
– Learning assignments that are written as a text
– Embedded or linked multimedia files that you have produced
during the studies
– Reflective writings on what you have learned, thought and
discovered during your studies
– Comments from and discussion with your peers, tutors and
teachers
– Anything else you want to include to your portfolio as a
showcase of your learning and expertise 

7. Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2012-09-13
• Helps you to learn by articulating your thoughts (and discussing
them with others)
• Helps you to see the process of your learning, what you have
learned and accomplished
• Helps the teachers and other students to see your thoughts,
learning process and accomplishments
• Provides an easy way to do, ”return” and collect your learning
assignments
• Shows the potential employers your achievements and expertise
• Provides a way to show the world who you are, helps you to
create networks
• Provides a way for your relatives, friends and other interested
people to see how you are doing and what you are thinking
• Helps all interested people to see, what our studies are about

8. Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2012-09-13
What could be the main contents of your potfolio?
Who will be the main readers (target group) of your
portfolio?
What are the main issues you want the reader to
know about you?
Do you want to include other issues besides these
studies?
– Hobbies, interests, happenings in your everyday life,
professional contents, current issues in politics…?

9. Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2012-09-13
• provides a simple and free platform, where you can
share your thoughts, documents and media files in an
well-structured and visually pleasing form without any
specific programming or other technical special skills.
• enables an easy way to comment and discuss, refer
to other blogs or sites and embed multimedia to your
portfolio.
• can be totally public to all web users or some of the
content may be protected with a password for only
selected viewers to see.

10. Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2012-09-13
• Posts
• Pages
• Comments
• Embeddings
• Hyperlinks
• Categories
• Tags
• Archives
• Widgets
• Feeds

11. Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2012-09-13
http://lettin.wordpress.com/
http://polinagrigoreva.wordpress.com/
http://letslearntoblog.wordpress.com/

12. Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2012-09-13
How could you structure your blog?
– What could be the main categories?
– How about tags?
– Should there be some ’permanent’
pages?
How about the visual look of your
portfolio?

13. Venla Vallivaara
LET – Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit
University of Oulu
2012-09-13
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