In 1000 words, write the reason why you like or dislike using e-portfolio as one of your learning and assessment tools.
E-Portfolio is to be beginning a new wave of technology development in education. There is a push to free student work from paper and to make it
- organized,
- searchable, and
- transportable
The following outlines the benefits for e-portfolio user groups.
Student
Student
- increased learning effectiveness
- model professionalism
- enhance information technology skills
- gain academic credit for learning beyond the classroom
- reflections on artifacts as well as how they match goals and standards
- help students make connections among their formal and informal learning experiences
- prompt learners to articulate their learning goals from different perspectives
In e-portfolio of this class, is a weekly entry reflecting what have read or done and published in blog. For me using the blog for this e-portfolio is not too hard. It is because before this I have my own blog. But the content is very different because in my own blog it just about mine and to share with my friends but the content in this e-portfolio is a purposeful collection of my work that exhibits my efforts, progress, and achievements in one or more areas of the course curriculum. It should represent a collection of my best work and best efforts. This e-portfolio includes notes taken during the lectures/discussions/lab activities/observations made on the use of technologies for library and information management, as well as from relevant materials. So I have a problem with time management to do the content of this e-portfolio. It is because I must take time to do all the entry and must balance in my work and other class. But I try do my best and as well as I can to do this e-portfolio. For me e-portfolio using blog is very interactive and I very like it.
For educational purposes, there are many different types of electronic portfolios (e-portfolio). Most allow for flexibility so that the lecturer can focus and or measure a specific skill or concept.
Because teaching methods and strategies have changed and will continue to change as research and technologies make advances, the means to assess students must also keep pace. Portfolio assessment began as a way to more accurately evaluate a student. By organizing and collecting student work samples, lecturer, students and parents could chart student progress
There are benefits to using an electronic portfolio. With traditional portfolios, files, boxes and or binders holding papers, cassettes, pictures, and drawings would take up lots of space. With an electronic portfolio, information can be easily stored in a computer hard drive, floppy disc, CD or other. This would take up very little physical space and would be accessed with minimal effort.
E-portfolio not only takes up little physical space, but can hold a great deal of information. Pictures, art work and writing samples can be all be scanned in and saved. Once the student work is organized, electronic portfolios can be enhanced by the addition of sound, music, pictures, graphics and even video. Thus making it easier and more appealing to the student and lecturer
Electronic portfolios also serve to enhance computer and technology skills. The student would gain experience by creating, selecting, organizing, editing and evaluating the portfolios. Students would feel a sense of accomplishment and empowerment by displaying, sharing and presenting their electronic portfolios to lectures, fellow classmates and other.
In closing, electronic portfolios are a technology based form of authentic student based assessment. They are a collection of student work over a period of time. Portfolios are both practical and effective because of the rubrics used. The benefits include clear set standards or expectations, quick access, easy storage and increased technology skills. A multi-media computer, a scanner and a software package are the basic technologies needed to create an electronic portfolio. The templates are a way to organize the contents of the portfolio.
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