This is a presentation I gave in October of 2009 at the NZ national ULearn conference. It gives an outline of the journey I have taken with ePortfolios in my classroom over the last year and includes my reflections.

1. Christchurch New Zealand October 2009 Integrating new technologies to empower learning and transform leadership

2. An Interactive inspection of a Primary Teacher’s Journey with ePortfolios from Inspiration to Implementation By Jamin Lietze

4. JISC Ian Fox Mahara Wordpress MU Moodle 21 Classes Edublogs Nick Rate's Criteria KnowledgeNet Pebblepad eFolio MOESP Reports Helen Barrett Ray Tolley Blogs

7. ICT Multimedia Reflective Thinking Goal Setting Celebrating Successes “ Next Steps” Focus Feed Back/Forward Collaboration Co-construction Parents, Friends + Teacher

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11. 1. Do you like having an ePortfolio?

12. 2. What are the best things about having an ePortfolio? “ Other people can look at the work your proud of and you can look at your friends work and leave comments to help them. You can watch the cool movies that people put on their ePortfolio and you can leave comments on their movies.” “ You can send emails to each other. You can look at other ePortfolios of your friends. You can put your work on it and photos and videos.” “ Everything!!!!!! It is as cool as an I-Pod!!!” “ That we can communicate with each other with emailing because we are not allowed to go on our own mail like Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc…” “ Instead of doing everything on paper you can do it on the computer.”

14. 3. What are the negative things about having an ePortfolio? 8% said “You can sometimes get spam.” 50% said “Nothing.” 21% said “One of them is having to put your work on it and having to complete tasks.” 17% said “After a while all the things start to get boring because you have done most of the activities and you have checked out the system.” 4% said “Not being able to email other people that don’t go to our school.” Next Steps: Add Web 2.0 tools eg:

15. 4. How has having an ePortfolio helped you? Features of LMS = Ultranet 0 5 10 15 20 25

18. Video Interviews

21. ICT Multimedia Reflective Thinking Goal Setting Celebrating Successes “ Next Steps” Focus Teacher Feed Back/Forward Collaboration Co-construction eg: eP, WALT, S.Criteria Parents, Friends + Teacher

22. Await MOE announcement Parental education Increase access to ePortfolios HTML templates + Web 2.0 tools Strategic planning + rollout Yr 1-13: Map out purpose + pathway

24. “ Bus Stop”: What is your next step?

25. Jamin Lietze www.lietze.edublogs.org www.twitter.com/jaminlietze [email_address] Integrating new technologies to empower learning and transform leadership