TUC-Teaching Updated Course 2008 ePortfolio; Engaging Students in Active and Reflective Learning (Workshop II: Hands on ePortfolio & Digital Story) Guest Speaker: K. C. Poon, United Christian College Speakers: Dean Fisher, H. L. Cheung & Vicky Chan, City University of Hong Kong TUC 2008, 4 August

TUC-Teaching Updated Course 2008 Intended Outcomes Identify common tools for developing ePortfolios Use one of the tools to develop an ePortfolio or digital story Evaluate one of the tools according to its features and functions

TUC-Teaching Updated Course 2008 Common tools for developing ePortfolio Blackboard Personal Portfolio Blackboard Personal Portfolio (a mechanism of artifacts & views creation) a tool comes with Learning Management System & Content Collection (LMS & CMS) WYSWYG editor (WhatYouSeeisWhatYouGet) require some skills to edit and control release comment function is available for the whole portfolio Blog/Journal Writing Blog/Journal Writing (record and reflection) a free format writing focuses on the process and progress of learning allow unorganised thoughts and feelings to express Questions set to guide reflection may help WikiWiki (quick and easy authoring tool with version control and collaboration capabilities) an individual knowledge management tool which also allows collaborations with others version control, change history logged Form filling Form filling (a structured approach) a structured approach focuses on collection of pre-defined data especially convenient for central data manipulation or analysis lowest technical requirement lowest user control in the product creation Digital Storytelling Owner be the narrator with audio and visual elements to help illustrate ideas and thoughts identity personality Reflection

TUC-Teaching Updated Course 2008 Samples of ePortfolio and digital story Go to ePortfolio project website (TDG funded project) Gut’s employment portfolio Gut’s employment portfolio (CityU ePortfolio) Vera’s learning portfolio Vera’s learning portfolio (CityU ePortfolio) Darry’s learning portfolio Darry’s learning portfolio (Google Docs) Agnes’s learning portfolio Agnes’s learning portfolio (My Expo Site) Anthony’s learning portfolio Anthony’s learning portfolio (Pbwiki) Kit’s reflective digital story Catherine’s digital story

TUC-Teaching Updated Course 2008 ePortfolio ~ Hands on! Form into groups of 2-3 people Define important features of an ePortfolio tool/system Take reference on the sample ePortfolio with an assigned account Construct a learning ePortfolio Insert a photo Type the contents Introduction (about this portfolio & about me) My Achievements Goals and Action Plans My Work (list or showcase work & state your reflection) Evaluate this tool

TUC-Teaching Updated Course 2008 Accounts for trial LMSs with Portfolio functions: Group 1: Blackboard Portfolio (CityU Environment): Group 2: eClass iPortfolio: Web 2.0 Portfolio tools: Group 3: PBWiki: Group 4: Google Docs: Group 5: My Expo Site (CityU Environment): Digital Storytelling Group 6: Window Movie Makers Upload video to Youtube

TUC-Teaching Updated Course 2008 Experience Sharing Different Group Presentations Digital Story Blackboard Portfolio with Artifact eClass iPortfolio My Expo Site with Wiki and Blog Google Docs PBWiki

TUC-Teaching Updated Course 2008 The Features of Different ePortfolio Tools Cost Space for uploading files Insert image directly Insert video Directly Add a hyperlink (external or internal) Archive (Export) Version control Sharing functions Comment function Blackboard portfolio with artifacts Yes Depend on school policy Yes NoYes My Expo site with Wiki Yes Depend on school policy Yes GoogleDocsNo Specification (support 5000 documents) YesNoYes No eClass iPortfolio Yes Depend on school policy YesNoYes (for system administrator only) Yes PbWiki No (for basic version only) 10MBYes No (it cannot backup images and Documents for free version) Yes BloggerNo 1GBYes No PublicYes Webnode No (Basic version only) 100MBYes (support HTML code) YesNo Public only (free version) Yes