1. Oxon-Bucks Partnership e-portfolio story so far…

2. Context EBITT with 69 trainees £20,000 TDA grant in 2004-5 to set up website and VLE Bespoke site – no annual charge beyond website hosting Encouragement over last three years to trainees to post materials into their ‘folder’ 2007-8: optional project to encourage greater dialogue between trainees and tutors – through e-portfolio

3. E-portfolios – aims Encourage trainees’ reflective practice through reflective commentaries, individual training plan reviews Facilitate better communications between trainees and tutors (who they see once a term) Develop Partnership’s monitoring and quality assurance of school based training using ICT

4. Word based because Cheap Portable No additional training necessary

5. Pitfalls we have tried to avoid: Ensure all trainees, mentors and tutors have access, irrespective of employer Ensure individual permission levels to protect individuals’ privacy and data Encourage learning portfolios rather than assessment/presentation portfolios

6. A trainee’s perspective

7. Minor problems… Automated emails from website deleted as spam School network permissions sometimes prevent Word documents being opened (need to liaise with school network manager) Problems associated with editing web- based documents (forgetting to save first etc)

8. Future plans Rebuild website with trainees able to allocate permissions to others within the community to access their e-portfolio to encourage: collaborative construction of knowledge online (Seddon and Posstlethwaite, 2007) Communities of Practice (CoP) model (Lave and Wenger, 1991) All trainees to upload all assessment records onto website as part of e-portfolio: reflective commentaries, mentor and tutor reports. Automatically generated database; automated reminders to those who miss deadlines Enable Partnership to quality assure quality of training via trainees’ e-portfolios