Session 4 - Activity 1 : using ePortfolios in my teaching
Task 1. Work in pairs. Take one lesson or course that you teach and discuss how you could use ePortfolios in that lesson or course.
If you have already used ePortfolios in your lessons, discuss how you could use ePortfolios in other areas of your teaching.
Write this up in your ePortfolio/ Record your reflection
Task 2: work in pairs on designing an action plan for your personal teaching practice ->
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Session 4 - Activity 2 : institutional level - the barriers and challenges
Task 1 Work in pairs. Think on what would need to be done on the institutional level for your personal ideas to be implemented. What barriers need to be overcome? How can they be overcome? You may want to consider time and resources allocation, motivation, existing competences, institution profile and goals, incentives, your students' profile, legal constraints etc.
discuss your ideas with other participants. Write down most important things to keep in mind when implmeneting ePortfolio into curriculum?
Task 2 work in pairs on designing an action plan for a specific institution. You may refer to the [ePortfolio case studies] or other resources and explore how different institutions tackled ePortfolio implementation. How these situations are similar to yours?
Task 3 Can you extract more general barriers and strategies of implementing ePortfolio? Discuss it with the whole group. Sum up the crucial point and record them.
Task 4 Working with young learners from voctional schools you encounter different problems with motivation, career planning etc. Would you like to image how ePortfolio might help overcome these difficulties?
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Session 4 Activity Legal aspects
Task 1 Licenses and copyright. Show creative commons video.
security issues / open vs closed ePortfolio systems - advantages and disadvantages
providing learners with feedback
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Session 4 - Activity 2 : providing learners with feedback
task: match feedback options with scenarios
task: design a resource that will support students who will provide other students with feedback
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Session 4 - Activity 3: Providing feedback on line
Video by Jenny Hughes on providing feedback.
Discussion - this video was made for adult learners. is it different with younger people and how and why? Is there anything different about on-line feedback in e-Portfolio?
In pairs. Take one e-Portfolio entry by someone else in the group. Provide feedback on this entry.
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