1. Simon Webster School of Further and Secondary Education University of Plymouth

2. Context

3. Project rationale

4. What is PebblePad

5. The University approach to PebblePad • http://plymouth.ac.uk/

6. Project approaches to PebblePad

8. Professional standards http://www.lluk.org/2986.htm

10. tagging • http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2065633/Tag • http://www.visualthesaurus.com/landing/?ad=ddc.large&utm_medium=large&utm_campaign=VT&utm_source=ddc&word=tag&lang=en

11. Assessment woes

12. Further issues arising from the research • Unfamiliar interface • Computing access • Integrated approach across the partnership • Where next?

13. Its not windows!http://wordperhect.net/

14. Computing access • Trainees were able to effectively access PebblePad from campus computer suites and their homes • Most teaching rooms are not equipped with computers for students to use • Only some (20%) students brought laptops or netbooks with them to class

15. References Bateman, S.; Brooks, C.; & McCalla, G. (2006) ‘Collaborative tagging approaches for ontological metadata in adaptive e-learning systems’ available at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.61.8032&rep=rep1&type=pdf Berendt, B. & Hanser, C. (2009) ‘Tags are not metadata, but “just more content” – to some people’ available at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.70.9086&rep=rep1&type=pdf Hunter, J.; Khan, I.; & Gerber, A. (2008) ‘HarvANA – Harvesting Community Tags to Enrich Collection Metadata’ available at http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~agerber/papers/JCDL2008.pdf Kay, R. & Knaack, L. (2005) ‘A Case for Ubiquitous, Integrated Computing in Teacher Education’ Technology, Pedagogy and Education Vol. 14, No.3, 2005 pp391-412 Lucas, N. (2002) ‘The introduction of national standards and compulsory teacher education for further education college teachers in England: issues and challenges’ Teacher Development Vol. 6, No. 3, 2002 Mathes, A. (2004) ‘Folksonomies – Cooperative classification and communication through shared metadata’ available at http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html Nasta, T. (2007) ‘Translating national standards into practice for the initial training of Further Education (FE) teachers in England’ Research in Post-Compulsory Education Vol. 12, No. 1, March 2007, pp. 1–17 Takahashi, T. & Pollard, J. (2000) ‘Word Perhect’ available at http://wordperhect.net/frame.html Tolley, R. (2008) ‘The prime directives for an e-portfolio’ available at http://www.maximise-ict.co.uk/Prime%20Directives-2.pdf Wikipedia ‘Tag (meta data)’ available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29

16. Picture references Slide 1 http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=29636 Slide 2 http://www.synchrocity.co.uk/images/EventImages/Graduation_Hat_Toss.jpg Slide 4 https://wiki.unisa.edu.au/download/attachments/1441840/pebblepad.jpg Slide 11 Product of a long, dark evening! Slide 13 Screen grab from http://wordperhect.net/