[senit] digital portfolios

David

Hi David

[I ought to make clear first that I work for  Learning Platform provider; 
UniServity as their Education Development Consultant, although the 
experiences below are from my previous school role with Infant children]

Having only been out of the classroom since the autumn, it would be great to 
share with you some easy ways of students, families and teaching staff 
collaboratively working on portfolio building within the child's Learning 
Platform. We encouraged all parties to share achievements, whether through 
photographs, photostory, film, music, captured images (camera, visualiser), 
scanned art, mark making, writing, modelling, sound recording, video and so 
forth; in line with given headings (which could include assessment 
statements or Learning Journey milestones, targets, hobbies, areas of 
personal interest, themes or dates amongst others). It was great for 
students as their achievements had an increased profile through this 
activity, and great for parents as they were able to share home achievements 
more effectively, and great as a teacher in terms of sharing workload and 
keeping up to date with out-of-school achievements. Great use can be made of 
"Learning Journals" as a place for reflection-on-learning by the child 
alongside family & school support. As the child gets older, this medium of 
self-reflection and self-target-setting becomes more and more powerful in 
terms of application to further activities.

One of the most effective ways that this took place was by dropping these 
achievements into a blog where the whole learning support team (family, 
school, clubs, community) as well as the student, could then comment & 
annotate; great for next steps & target setting, as well as celebration. 
Equally, we often set 'tasks' to prompt learning support teams to add 
specific evidence of achievements; for example to support assessment or 
targets. We tried out a number of other ways of doing this including just 
adding the files to Eportfolio Resource folders or shared areas, but this 
was not effective in terms of purposeful use in developing learning.

I'm more than happy to share examples with you of how this can be achieved 
easily, but please be aware that due to my role I could only show you 
examples from one Learning Platform, and the various platforms all have 
different ways of achieving these kinds of outcomes.

Best wishes
Fiona Aubrey-Smith

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "david fettes" <davidfettes3 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [senit] digital portfolios

thanks Eileen, have you seen how transfering them to
the learning platform will work? eg will you be able
to upload the photos and annotate them there rather
than doing it in Publisher and uploading the publisher
files?
David
--- it.belstead.s at talk21.com wrote:

> David
> I write them in publisher put on a photo save an
> electronic copy in the personal folder, (we are
> shortly to transfer them to the learning platform),
> most staff want a hard copy to put in an ROA folder
> so I send them one.
>
>
> Eileen Perrins Belstead School
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: david fettes <davidfettes3 at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
> Sent: Monday, 21 April, 2008 10:19:51 PM
> Subject: [senit] digital portfolios
>
> > hi , do any schools use some kind of digital
> > portfolio
> > or record of achievement for each student? Either
> a
> > software program or website or a virtual learning
> > environment (VLE)? Or do you know of anything I
> could look at. It seems strange to be using
> paper-based ROAs in this day and age!
> > thanks
> > David
>
>
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