Presented at the ELI 2010 Conference with Andrew Bonamici and Nancy Cheng this week in Austin. You can find the details here. We were presenting the work we have been doing with eportfolios, WordPress MU and professional skill development at UO. The presentation went well. But we also learned a … Continue reading
Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students — Campus Technology Good beginning advice for anyone wanting to use Blogs with students for reflection and learning. I might add though that evaluation is trickier for blogs. As the author mentions, an instructor’s comments on blogs should be … Continue reading
Purdue University Adds Twitter and Facebook to Class Participation
In my Leadership and Communication class, my students are working on projects focused on improving General Education at the UO. One of the problems they have identified with our Gen Ed approach is lack of student engagement, both because of large, impersonal classes and lack of […] Continue reading
Alverno College – Diagnostic Digital Portfolio Home Page This is a very interesting approach to learning and assessment. Alverno committed to an “ability-based” learning model that is built on key abilities in: Communication Analysis Problem Solving Valuing in Decision Making Social Interaction Developing a Global Perspective Effective Citizenship Aesthetic Engagement … Continue reading
Blogging | New Media: The Virtual and the False An assignment description and rubric for evaluating blogs. Blogged with the Flock Browser
I find this an interesting metaphor for showing the integrated aspects of eportfolio thinking and learning (akin to Helen Barrett’s “Two Faces of Eportfolios”). Creative Commons Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24289877@N02/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The creator offers the following ways this idea might apply (developed for a paper given at the VET … Continue reading
As part of our UfoliO project, our team was accepted into the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research as part of Cohort V. Our Cohort project spans 2008-11. We met with the Cohort in Denver this summer and focused on clarifying our research question and our research plan. Since then, … Continue reading
Here is a TED Talk by Sir Ken Robinson that makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Continue reading
I recently discovered an unexpected benefit to having my students blog about their learning experience in my Leadership and Communication Class this summer. As part of this class, students work in teams over the entire term on a significant course project. The objective of the project is to provide experiential … Continue reading
In our ongoing pilot of Wordpress as a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) platform, I have asked my students in my summer BA 352 – Leadership and Communication class to each set up a blog site. I wanted to explore a few questions this summer:
How could I get students engaged in ongoing reflection through their blog […] Continue reading
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