2. How can ePortfolios be implemented successfully in ELC courses?










ePortfolios
1. In what ways do you think ePortfolios can be used to enhance learning, teaching and assessment practices?
 
3.Using portfolios for teacher development and evaluation – paper portfolios or electronic portfolios?

Would it be possible to use ePortfolios to replace paper portofolios? Possible advantages of creating ePortfolios:
1)Easy to carry and store
2)Accessible to more than one person at one time
3)Easy to manage and browse

In addition, writing reflective journals (on a voluntary basis) might be a good way to complement the current practice with information about the process. In addition, the journals might be helpful to appraisers, should they want to have a more complete grasp of team members’ work in the process and of their reactions to various aspects of their work. 

4.How can ELC teachers make use of ePortfolios for their own advantage?

Teachers could produce their own ePortfoios for various purposes, e.g., an ePortfolio about their hobbies and achievements to share with their students, an ePortfolio for containing reflective journals, an ePortfolio for collecting evidence of their work over the year, an ePortfolio for the purpose of appraisals.


To do: how would you like to receive these links?
Are eportfolios hoops through which to jump?
Enhances sharing
Is reflection incorporated into the assessment?










Keep track of progress
Consider students' learning styles








Convince students that eportfolios are useful
Force students to make ePortfolios
Trust system (with declaration forms)

Research findings suggest that what students like the most about ePortfolios is teachers' comments, but responding to each student's work on a regular basis can impose a very heavy workload for teachers.  





Interwoven into the course structure
Enhances sharing; fodder for discussion
Is it easier to discuss on Blackboard?  In fact, what is an eportfolio?
What about an eportfolio course?
Teaching students to make eportfolios
Decouple independent learning from core courses; make the eportfolio course an elective and shorten core courses
Give more college credits to students
Tackle reading, writing, listening and speaking in one course
Balancing workload (time intensive)








    


       



       





























 

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