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Enhancing Staff Engagement with e-Portfolios: Tools and Strategies for Effective Implementation

Join Julie Stephenson and Katie Sparks as they explore the transformative potential of e-portfolios in educational settings. This session will provide valuable insights into defining e-portfolios, discussing their benefits and challenges, and identifying strategies to maintain interest in their creation and upkeep. Attendees will learn how to engage teachers and students in meaningful reflection on learning, consider the relevance of various platforms, and understand how to advocate for e-portfolios within their institutions.

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Enhancing Staff Engagement with e-Portfolios: Tools and Strategies for Effective Implementation

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  1. Code = rpMale

  2. Edmodo Quiz

  3. Julie Stephenson: julie.stephenson@cabarrus.k12.nc.us ya_literature • Katie Sparks: kathryn.sparks@cabarrus.k12.nc.us mediasparkles • Mission Statement: We hope that this session will provide with new tools that you can take back and implement with your staff. Introductions

  4. Essential Questions • Define ePortfolio • Discuss Options • Compare benefits and challenges Agenda

  5. 1. What strategies can best ensure that you will maintain an interest and commitment to the creation and upkeep of an e-portfolio? • 2. Who is the audience? What is the desired result of the interaction with the e-portfolio? Where will the portfolio exist online? • 3.How can the e-portfolio encourage teachers/students to reflect on their learning? Essential Questions:

  6. 4. If you don’t use an e-portfolio, what will you use instead? Will it work for you? Will it be relevant in 5 years? • 5. Would there be benefits to your entire school using a single e-portfolio platform? Multiple platforms? • 6. What do you need to do to help administrators understand the value of your e-portfolio? Essential Questions

  7. An e-portfolio is “a digitized collection of artifacts, including demonstrations, resources, and accomplishments that represent an individual, group, or institution” (Lorenzo and Ittelson 2005). Wall and Phillips adds that the e-portfolio is one in “which the person or organization has reflected […] a presentation to one or more audiences for a particular rhetorical purpose” (Dekson and Suresh, 22). Definition

  8. Best options, in our opinion: • Portfoliogen • Digication $ • Pathbrite • Taskstream $ • Epsilen • Edublog • Otherpeoplespixels $ • Weebly • Google Apps/Plus • Schoolwires • Live Binders Options

  9. Behance Prosite $ (for upgrades) • Carbonmade • Wordpress • Blogsy $ The Choice is Yours

  10. Why Make Portfolios Paperless?

  11. Why ePortfolios?

  12. Sustainability • Marketing Tool • Sharing and Collaborating • Quick and Easy Maintenance (Once Established) 21st Century Relevance

  13. Today’s options are adaptable • Embedded sites embedded (RSS feed, Social Icons, …) • More interactive than their predecessors. Benefits

  14. Potential cost • Time involvement • Lack of experience with specific platforms (learning curve for both user and administrator) • TF’s may need training to assist with troubleshooting • May not work with other information/technology systems (social media sites, student information systems, etc…) • Technology and Internet Issues (random outage) • Ability to capture/document rare moments or things that cannot typically be captured Challenges

  15. Choose your ePortfolio preferred site • Create a list of your essential questions, standards, or key features for the site (naming tabs, creating sections on ePortfolio) • Upload documents as needed • Make sure to share link with those who might benefit or want to see your portfolio Show Essential Parts (Bones of Portfolio)

  16. Julie’s Choice -Weebly • http://juliestephenson.weebly.com ePortfolio Samples

  17. Katie’s Choice-Google Plus • https://sites.google.com/a/apps.cabarrus.k12.nc.us/sparks-library/ ePortfolio Samples

  18. Katie’s Google

  19. Katie’s Google

  20. Teacher A’s Choice-School Wires • http://www.cabarrus.k12.nc.us//site/Default.aspx?PageID=10051 ePortfolio Sample

  21. Teacher B’s Choice: Live Binders • http://www.livebinders.com/shelf/my ePortfolio Sample

  22. Rose-anne Camilleri • http://efolio.edublogs.org/ • Dominic Abbenante • http://dominicabbenante.com/section/348831.html ePortfolio Samples

  23. Read “Terms of Use” for the sites considered • Year-long process (add documents as you go about your year) • Explore the options Final Thoughts

  24. Abbenante, Dominic. Developing an Interactive Digital Online Portfolio. A thesis presented to the faculty of San Diego University. (Spring 2013). • Camilleri, Rose-anne. http://efolio.edublogs.org/ Date accessed 8-26-2013. • Dekson, D.E., and Suresh, E.S.M. Adaptive and Intelligent E-portfolio Architecture for Learning. International Journal of computer Applications. Vol. 2. No. 3, May 2010. • Lorenzo, George and Ittleson, John. An Overview of E-Portfolios, ed. Diana Oblinger. (Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. July 2005), http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3001.pdf • Reese, Michael and Levy, Ron. Assessing the Future: e-portfolio trends, uses, and options in higher education. (Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Research Bulletin. February 2009). Works Cited

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