A workshop for teachers on e-Portfolios

08-April-2007

[ social software , e-Portfolios ]
I am designing a workshop on e-portfolios for teachers and trainers,. I am going to develop a self learning version. Would anyone like to work with me on this?
Sorry I've been so quiet lately. I have been traveling endlessly and then returned home to write a funding application (more on that tomorrow).

But at last today I've found a bit of time to return to doing some more creative work - blogging and writing an outline of a two day workshop. The workshop is for the EU funded MOSEP project (incidentally if you've been there before and were not impressed do take another look. The site has been completely redesigned and is beginning to look pretty cool). The MOSEP project is researching, developing and piloting e-Portfolios - designed for use by 14-19 year old socially disadvantaged young people. The main output of the work will be a handbook (I'm still struggling to complete the first draft of that) and a series of workshops for teachers and trainers about e-Portfolios. I am responsible for the main module. This is intended as a two day face to face workshop.

 I have written the a first draft of the Main Module on the project wiki. I have not done the timings yet but suspect I may have to reduce some of the activities slightly. I would love some feedback from you. The activities may not be quite transparent (there are some fairly oblique references to some of the activities which I will try and clarify int he next few days)- but you can get a feel for the issues I am covering. Is the balance about right? Have I missed out any important issues?

Thsi blog is currently syndicated on the JISC Community Emerge site. I wonder if anyone in that community is working on e-Portfolios and would like to collaborate with me. Whilst this version is written for workshop delivery it  would be quite simple to write another version intended for self learning - and very worthwhile i think. One issue is availability.  I would love to make it available through some of the Open Content sites - say Open Learn and Connexions. But this is where the standards issue comes into play. These sites use completely different standards. It will be a pain  writing different versions. Does anyone have any good ideas. I could produce a version in Learning Design - but am unconvinced how useful that would be. The workshop and all materials will be published under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license.

I know the comment function on the Wales Wide Web is not really working (sometimes comments do get through but most times they don't). If any of you do have comments or would like to work with me on this could you leave a comment on my Emerge bog or on my MOSEP project blog.




Graham Attwell; 08-April-2007 15:35:02;