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Hvad kan dette bruges til? E-portfolio, lærings indhold, 22

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Use Web 2.0 for experience-based learning Free taster session

Why a VITAE course? If you can use a PC but would like to use more of its potential in your teaching If you want to implement e-portfolios, awareness of own learning and more differentiation If you want to increase your professional competence If you are willing to help colleagues.

Try this free sample of the VITAE course In this course snippet you will Reflect on your professional development in a visual way and Make a portable presentation and Gain an insight into your students’ pedagogical development and Answer one of the important mentor questions which you could use later with your colleagues.

You will need… Powerpoint (or another presentation program which makes .ppt files such as Open Office) The Slideboom tool (no sign up necessary) You are welcome to Upload your task to http://vitaeproject.ning.com (you need to sign up)

If you can cut and paste then you can use the free tool Slideboom straight away. Slideboom will use the Powerpoint you prepare for this task. Your portable presentation can be placed at http://vitaeproject.ning.com

Digital immigrants Starting to use digital tools can be a little like moving into a new culture.

The VITAE course will help you to avoid the computer frustration which may result from your foray into the new digital culture by giving you lots of guidance, access to resources and a mentor programme. Don’t use more than 5 minutes on a technical task before calling for help.

So let’s get going! Awareness of your own learning There is much focus on awareness of your own learning both from the student’s point of view and from the teacher’s side regarding professional development requirements. We learn from many different sources both formal and informal. How could this look from a visual point of view? Examples include Michele Martin and Ray

More? Watch this video

My learning network

Task: Your learning network Use Powerpoint to make a picture of your own learning network (.ppt file not .pptx)

Ready? Have you really finished your powerpoint already?

With your PPT… Go toslideboom.com and click on upload

Choose the ppt file from your computer (not a .pptx file!) This will say ’browse’ in your language.

Copy the html code and paste it into one of your webpages, blogs or your personal page on the VITAE learning community site at http://vitaeproject.ning.com

Copy the html code and paste it into one of your webpages, blogs or your personal page on the VITAE learning community site at http://vitaeproject.ning.com Click on this icon Paste here

Now you can position the presentation as you wish. Click here

Stop! Go no further until you have tried the task!

Well done!

Other possibilities? Hand draw, take a photo and upload Use a drawing tool like Gliffy Use a program already on your computer like ’Paint’ and upload. Other?

Mentor question How could you extend your learning network? You could add this response to your page at http://vitaeproject.ning.com In doing this you learn about the questions which you, as a mentor, can use with your mentee.

Now what? Now you can use Slideboom or a similar tool for some of your teaching content so your students can access it on the internet. Now you know what it is like to think about your own learning.

Now you can Use Slideboom (or similar such as Slideshare) Talk about your own learning (and therefore about your students’ learning) Begin to plan your professional development in connection with teaching. Copy and paste html code to add online tools to your LMS, blog etc.

If you want to do more… Join the VITAE course by contacting www.vitae-project.eu . Find out more and participate in the conversation at http://vitaeproject.ning.com If you want to save this presentation then follow the instructions below under ’share’ Make your own presentation for use with your students. (Practice makes perfect!)