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Once you're settled in on your beach chair, click on the "Post a comment" space herein and please tell us the answers to the following questions:
1. Your first name and what discipline you teach.
2. How the topics of ePortfolios and the reflection component of the IPP connect with what you already know or do.
3. What you hope to achieve by completing this course.
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Corey, Music. I do a lot of reflection in my classes on memory, imagination, feeling and to be able to reflect more consistently before, during and after an activity is something I'd like to explore more in my teaching.
ReplyDeleteCorey, I think you'll find this course useful. I've posted Quest 2 & part of Quest 3 if you want to get a jump-start on creating your site. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteJane, I am trying it again
ReplyDeleteYeah, it worked!
DeleteJane Carney, Art
ReplyDeleteI think e-portfolio will be helpful in students developing editing skills. What information do they hold on to and how do they present themselves as learners and artists. I am curious to try a site. Is an e-portfolio the same as a web-site? Are there differences? Also wondering what we can get to our students through e-portfolio that is different from or more than what we do on ITunes U?...Finally it works!
Hi, Jane.
DeleteGood questions! And good thoughts.
Yes, an ePortfolio is, in this case, a Google website where either you or your students will collect and archive content, the product.
Taking it to the next level will include the reflection process, identifying how the artifact helped them grow, any challenges in completing, what the learner might have learned about him or herself, et cetera.
iTunes U is a system for teachers to push course materials to students, and teachers can likewise do that within a Google site. The main difference is the ePortfolio would be something students can create, their own website within our Google Loyola domain, in this case, to demonstrate learning and growth. Perhaps it could be a picture of a painting and the Garageband audio or written reflection, as your students created for the art show. Only it's available 24/7, on the web! Teachers likewise can create a professional portfolio, for the same reasons.
When you are comfortable moving on from the materials in Quest 1, you can begin to build a site in Quest 2.
Thanks for your persistence in posting. We will have to get the bugs out of why you were not able to post while logged into your Loyola Google account.
Jane,
ReplyDeleteJust started quest 2 and after exploring I wanted to try to set up a site. I did it but know want to delete it ...want t organize more and don't like template or title. I googled help to delete and it directed me to a drop down menu with more options to delete but I cam'tlocate where the drop down is...sorry if this is too basic.
Dear Anonymous,
DeleteSorry to hear the directions from your search were vague. Good for you for trying to figure it out though!
To delete your site, you need to click on the "gear" icon in the top-right of your sites screen. Look under site actions for manage site option.
Click on manage site. You will be in the default "general" screen. Scroll half-way down and find the button for "delete site." You will be prompted to confirm the deletion. Say yes if you really mean it!
It may take a bit of time for the site to be deleted. You can always create another one in the meantime, but the name would need to be different.
Hope this helps.
Signed,
Jan Stoner
Summer Online Camp Director
I teach Math and I already have my students complete a portfolio each quarter. For each portfolio, I give my students a prompt to respond to about their growth over the quarter. I want to learn how to use an eportfolio so that I don't have to carry home so many folders!
ReplyDeleteGreat, Matt, that you're already having them do a portfolio! I think you will enjoy this because it will help give your back a break, not break your back!
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ReplyDeleteI'm Sandra and I will be teaching English next year. In teaching track one, I have found reflection to be imperative to student success. It is hard for this population to pinpoint what good reading and writing looks like; they need to reflect on these skills in order to improve. I am looking forward to using portfolios in an organized manner, so students can really do some longitudinal looking at their skills. I'm hoping this portfolio process with teach them (and me!) some things about how reflecting on skills is a powerful way to gauge skills.
Hello, Sandra! Besides the tech basics, in Quest 4 we will be looking at different times reflection occurs in the learning process. Much like your literacy strategies, there is reflection before, during, and after a learning experience, which will help embed the learning experience into a student's long-term memory. Stay tuned!
ReplyDeleteHi, I'm Josh in the Theology department. I have used portfolios in the past to engage students - both in the classroom and on service-immersions - in the IPP (documenting their growth through experience, reflection and action). I have tried to streamline this process in digital form with some other formats, but have found them to be cumbersome. I am hopeful that Google ePortfolio will be helpful in the coming year. This also seems to be helpful collaborative tool with colleagues.
ReplyDeleteHi, Josh,
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us. I hope you will find this format to be what you are looking for in order to streamline your processes. Having a digital space and the iPads should help with that.
Your experience with portfolios is welcome! If you have any resources you'd like to contribute to our summer camp experience, please feel free to share through this Google Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/a/loy.org/folderview?id=0B63tLeI3hREGbFY4NC1WWTF2dW8&usp=sharing or by posting a web link herein.
Looking forward to seeing and hearing about your progress. Sorry for the delay in my response. I was on vacay!
This is Colleen, visual arts. I am curios to see if portfolios can help my AP Art History students engage and interact with the material more effectively. I also think the ePortfolios will be a good tool for studio students. They can record their process and products as well as reflect on the creative process.
ReplyDeleteColleen, glad you will be joining us! I think your students will find value in creating an ePortfolio to extend their creativity and learning endeavors. Also a great way to showcase their work.
ReplyDeleteLeslie photography and studio. I have been using reflection as one of my classroom goals. I am interested to see if eportfolio could be a good way of displaying photo portfolios and reflection. I like the idea of the "product" to show students what they are learning.
ReplyDeleteWelcome, Leslie! I think you'll like this for a showcase tool. The reflection capabilities makes it more powerful than just storing photos on photo-sharing sites.
DeleteJulie nold here from Languages. I have used portfolios in the past and find them to be an excellent tool for the students to look back and see how much they've learned! Last year I used various applications to have students create/submit projects (Educreations, Ask3, Edmodo, PicCollage and Prezi), but I'm curious to know if ePortfolios will allow collection of such projects to be held in one place.
ReplyDeleteWelcome, Julie! Great that you have had students creating projects using these apps! If they can send them, then an ePortfolio is a place to store them. Keep working through the quests and you'll see how.
DeleteHello, I posted once, but it's not showing. Didn't know if you have to approve it, or if it's not showing up because I didn't log in first. Regardless, here is a repost: I believe ePortfolios will be an excellent resource in languages. I think it will be quite useful for reflection on writing, especially in the 3rd year, where writing should be more fluid. I like the real-time responses that Google products provide, and I hope that students will be more open to reflection, especially without the shuffling of papers. I also look forward to being able to collaborate with my colleagues.
ReplyDeleteOops, forgot my name: Tania López from Languages.
DeleteThanks, Tania, for joining us! I think you're spot-on for the writing benefits of ePortfolios in languages. Also, since ePortfolios are capable of handling the inclusion of multi-media files, students can of course upload their iMovies, podcasts, and whatever other activities you have them doing on the speaking and listening aspects of learning a language. We look forward to your progression through the quests! And remember to refresh the page after you post, so you'll be able to see it.
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