Choosing a Vehicle to Share My Learning:
I considered an ePortfolio, a Blog and a Web Site for this purpose. A summary of my research findings on each features below.
I considered an ePortfolio, a Blog and a Web Site for this purpose. A summary of my research findings on each features below.
ePortfolio:
We should always start with WHY according to Simon Sinek. If the WHY isn’t right, nothing else will be right. Why ePortfolios - for all these reasons
What ePortfolios - for all these reasons
Reflection involves story-telling. Examples are the reflective learning stories that are generated at most New Zealand Early Learning centres. Reflection helps learners construct meaning and from there ask three critical questions
Conclusion: "A portfolio tells a story. It is the story of knowing. Knowing about things... Knowing oneself... Knowing an audience... Portfolios are students' own stories of what they know, why they believe they know it, and why others should be of the same opinion." (Paulson and Paulson, 1992, page 2). While an e-portfolio tells a story, it is still best suited to an audience of family, an audience of some rather than many. It is best suited as a stream of consciousness record of learning - the newest artefacts appearing at the top. It provides some navigational challenges when it comes to documenting a record of my Masters Learning Journey. Web Site:
This has become my tool of choice for documenting my own Learning Leadership Journey for the following reasons.
A website is ideally suited as a one-to-many record of learning. It allows for easy navigation, easy access and if commenting is switched on, allows for interactive responses from the audience. Multi-media possibilities are endless and though many of the points shared above apply to a greater or lesser degree to e-Portfolios and Blogs, they apply to a greater degree to a website record of learning. |
Blogging:
Blogging provides a great vehicle to demonstrate the Key Competencies. As Learning leaders we need to be modelling the Key Competencies in our own Learning and Leadership. ICT PD facilitator Tessa Gray has collated thoughts from the ICT PD project about the ways in which the key competencies can align with e-learning practices online, such as writing a blog. Managing Self
Blogging allows us to demonstrate key competencies. It is not particularly user-friendly as a record of learning because of navigation and lay-out issues. It does not make whole-picture learning readily accessible. It is more suited as a stream-of consciousness record of learning. It provides considerable navigational challenges when it comes to documenting a record of my Masters Learning Journey. Picture Credit: https://selmar.edu.au/study-online/
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