ePortfolio is a personal portfolio tool for storing, organising, reflecting on and sharing items that represent your learning. You can include: Documents (PowerPoint, Word etc.) Images Audio Video Items can be at any stage of completion, so e-Portfolio can be a tool for: Collaborating on, or getting feedback on, the creation of items Showcasing finished items How is e-Portfolio typically used in H.E.? To support reflective activity To build an evidence base for achievement of competencies or learning outcomes To enable peer-peer and student-tutor dialogue around e-P items To organise and present material… For assessment purposes For an external audience, e.g. potential employers

What are the main bits of an e-Portfolio? Artefacts, Collections, Reflections and Presentations

ePortfolio stores digital artefacts that representyour learning. An artefact might be: A file A new page of content (HTML page) created in ePortfolio An internet reference (URL) Imported results from a learning room: assessment results, dropbox feedback, grades…

A reflection can be: An independent portfolio item Associated with an existing artefact, collection or presentation. Associating reflections with other items helps others see the relationship between the items and makes it easier to revisit your goals and assumptions later.

A reflection can be: An independent portfolio item Associated with an existing artefact, collection or presentation. Associating reflections with other items helps others see the relationship between the items and makes it easier to revisit your goals and assumptions later.

A reflection can be: An independent portfolio item Associated with an existing artefact, collection or presentation. Associating reflections with other items helps others see the relationship between the items and makes it easier to revisit your goals and assumptions later.

A reflection can be: An independent portfolio item Associated with an existing artefact, collection or presentation. Associating reflections with other items helps others see the relationship between the items and makes it easier to revisit your goals and assumptions later.

A reflection can be: An independent portfolio item Associated with an existing artefact, collection or presentation. Associating reflections with other items helps others see the relationship between the items and makes it easier to revisit your goals and assumptions later.

Collections are groups of artefacts, reflections and presentations. They are like folders, except an item can belong to multiple collections at the same time. For example, you can add a short story you wrote to a collection called 'Fiction' as well as a collection called 'Creative Writing 1a'.

Tags are keywords or descriptive labels that you can add to items to help organise and categorise them. You can search both your own portfolio and others' shared items by tags.

Presentations let you compile a number of portfolio items into a web project that showcases your achievements. They can be shared with anyone inside or outside NTU. Someone might want to create a presentation to: Showcase their portfolio items to a potential employer Gather a number of items together into a single presentation and submit the whole thing to NOW’s dropbox for marking

Enabling comments on an artefact, collection, reflection or presentation allows users who are viewing the item to leave feedback. Use this feature to collaborate with peers or tutors around works-in-progress or finished items.

Case study example – Carol Jones and Gabi Burgess School of Education – Journalism course (example to be shown) PhD student support – BLSS and poss ArchBE

Discussion activity What about: Hosting: when a student leaves NTU, what happens to their eP? Capacity: how much storage space does each student have? Interoperability: can eP items be transferred from one eP system to another? Anything else?...

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Introduction to ePortfolios Sarah Horrigan, eLearning Developer

What is an ePortfolio and what is it used for?

Artefacts Collections Reflections Presentations

What are artefacts?

Artefact 1 Artefact 2 Where do Reflections fit in? Collection 1

Artefact 1 Artefact 2 Where do Reflections fit in? Reflection on Artefact 2 Collection 1

Artefact 1 Artefact 2 Where do Reflections fit in? Reflection on Collection Collection 1 Reflection on Artefact 2

Artefact 1 Artefact 2 Where do Reflections fit in? Reflection on Artefact 2 Reflection Reflection on Collection Collection 1

Artefact 1 Artefact 2 Where do Reflections fit in? Reflection Reflection on Collection Collection 1 Reflection Reflection on Artefact 2

And what about Collections? Collection 1 Collection 2

This is where tagging comes in…

How does tagging work?

How does tagging work?

How does tagging work? needle Search:

How can you share it with others?

ePortfolios were made for sharing! Source: Jeff Bauche, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeff-bauche/2230236391/

How are e-Portfolios being used at NTU?

e-Portfolios in practice – what do we need to think about?