1. ePortfolio Pilots Autumn 0809  Meeting 7 Nov  Pilots in progress – update  Evidence of student engagement  Research question(s)  Proposals for University policy

2. Protocols  E.g. Google Blogger as reflective journal on HEO  Student obtains Google account  Creates blog, names URL (own name best)  Adds tutor as guest  Tutor gets email

3. Management  Same example:  Tutor bookmarks blogs  Looks once a week & gives feedback  (Student links to distributed ePortfolio)  But tutor may not have access tomorrow…  PDP-related assessment must involve…?

4. Technical issues  Google Blogger, for example:  Sometimes not easy to get into, have to enter un/pw every time and text from image  Student not set up permissions correctly  Problems with cookie settings etc  Blogs disabled if subjected to virus/spam attack

5. Evidence of engagement

6. Personalisation  Previous slide: BF, BSc Comp Sci, has B Eng Audio Added photos…  Next slide: Link to ‘modding’ site… [ FDSc student, practical, identifies with recycling old PC boxes!]

9. Personalising their environment  Previous slide: MS (Comp & Marketing Joint) – pic, graphic, bio  Next slide: RB, 18 yr old, picture, coloured fonts…

11. Conclusions  Hard to manage web 2 blogs but worth the effort  Learn about students  Students can relate to us with their achievements ‘as equals’?  Distributed e-portfolios are very powerful expressions of identity…  And personalised learning environments  Far more entries than in WebLearn journal (similar number of students  Therefore, Google generation more confident, web 2 pioneers?

12. References Grainne Conole ‘Disruptive technologies or new pedagogical opportunities?’, Keynote Address, Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008, Accessed `19.10.08: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/symposium/2008/present ations/grainneconole http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/symposium/2008/present ations/grainneconole Downes, S. (2008), ‘My Digital Identity’, Keynote Address to the 2nd Pan-American and Francophone ePortfolio Conference: ePortfolio and Digital Identity, Concordia University on 5-7 May 2008. Accessed on 19/10/08 from http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-digital-identity.html http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-digital-identity.html Heidegger, M. (1971), Poetry, Language, Thought. New York: Harper and Row.

13. Heidegger  “We do not dwell because we have built, but we build and have built because we dwell, that is because we are dwellers… To build is in itself already to dwell… Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build.”  So, where do we want our students to dwell?