a short look at why we should use e-portfolios in some classes, and how faculty can use them both as teaching tools and professional tools.

1. e-portfolios

3. student & professional
so students can share so you can share

4. student blogs
• Authentic audience – no longer working for a teacher who checks
and evaluates work but a potential global audience.
• Suits more learning styles
• Increased motivation for writing – all students are happy to
write and complete aspects of the post topic. Many will add to it in
their own time
learning styles

5. • Increased motivation for reading – students will happily spend a lot
of time browsing through fellow student posts
• Pride in their work – students want their blogs to look good in both
terms of presentation and content.
• Blogs allow text, multimedia, widgets, audio and images – all items
that digital natives want to use

6. • Increased proofreading and validation skills
• Improved awareness of possible dangers that may confront them in
the real world
• Ability to share – part of the conceptual revolution that we are
entering. They can share with each other, staff, their parents, the
community, and the globe
Ability to share

7. • Mutual learning between students and staff and students
• Parents with internet access can view their child’s work and
writings – an important element in the parent partnership with the
classroom

8. • Blogs may be used for digital portfolios and all the
benefits this entails
• Work is permanently stored, easily accessed and valuable
comparisons can be made over time for assessment and evaluation
purposes
• Students are digital natives - blogging is a natural element of this
Assessment
&
evaluation purposes
digital portfolios

9. • Gives students a chance to show responsibility and
trustworthiness, and engenders independence
• Prepares students for digital citizenship
• Fosters peer to peer mentoring. Students are happy to share, learn
from and teach their peers
Copied from On an e-journey with generation Y
peer to peer mentoring

10. drawbacks

11. the thinker

12. an example

14. larry frolich

15. what’s in it for teachers

16. grading papers

17. so now you have a blog

18. what goes inside?
biographical information
• (for students?)
teaching philosophy
•
resume
•
courses and content
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and, it is easily updated
•

19. examples
• kinda tricky
• free
• free

20. time to make a blog