Compiling your ePortfolio
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This document provides guidance on compiling an ePortfolio, including: - The purpose of an ePortfolio is to showcase skills, achievements, and reflections over time. - Students should include plans, targets, progress, achievements, learning experiences, aspirations, reflections, and examples of best work in their ePortfolio. - An ePortfolio helps students become better learners through reflection, supports progression, and provides evidence for assessments. - The document outlines when and how students can compile their ePortfolio, including collecting evidence from lessons, assignments, extracurricular activities, and meetings.
![A portfolio of digital evidence about you, owned and managed by you structured and stored in a way that enables the evidence to found presented or shared with others [teachers, parents, peers, potential employers/HE/Training providers]; the evidence stored could include: your plans and targets the progress that you have made against your targets achievements your learning experiences your aspirations - what you want to do, work as etc your reflections and thinking on what you have done/achieved etc examples of your best work evidence of your competency](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/compiling-your-eporfolio-1229369754388062-1/85/Compiling-your-ePortfolio-3-320.jpg)
Compiling your ePortfolio
- 1. Compiling your ePortfolio John Pallister
- 2. Step 1 - Need to understand www W – what is an ePortfolio? W – why you need an ePortfolio? W – when you will use your ePortfolio? THEN How you will compile your ePortfolio
- 3. A portfolio of digital evidence about you, owned and managed by you structured and stored in a way that enables the evidence to found presented or shared with others [teachers, parents, peers, potential employers/HE/Training providers]; the evidence stored could include: your plans and targets the progress that you have made against your targets achievements your learning experiences your aspirations - what you want to do, work as etc your reflections and thinking on what you have done/achieved etc examples of your best work evidence of your competency
- 4. Why should you have an ePortfolio? No point having an ePortfolio unless there is something in it for you. an ePortfolio will: Provide a record of what you have done – much more that a CV - easy to find evidence including multimedia evidence Help you to become a better learner - encourage you to take an active part in your own learning – encourage reflection, planning and dialogue about learning Raise your self esteem – by looking back at what you have done, learnt or achieved you will develop a more positive image of you abilities – you will develop a positive can do approach to future things that you do Support your progression onto the next stage of your life-long learning and give you a 'presentational' or self-marketing portfolio Provide somewhere for you to store evidence to support assessment processes
- 5. What other students think - “How my ePorfolio has helped me”(2006) “ It helped me realise what I had achieved/done” “ It helped me think of things that will help me get the job I want” “ It helped me draw everything I have done during the year together” “ It helped me focus on my skills and qualities and what could be improved” “ It helped me to put career plans and targets into perspective” “ It has improved my presentation and computer skills” “ It has helped me place all my evidence together” “ It helped me to realise which skills I have, and those which I need to develop” “ It helped me to analyse my year and it's events” “ It has helped me build on the skills I need for my future job and will help me when doing future interviews”
- 6. When and How? Need to understand: The ePortfolio process and how it fits in with what you already do What you will include in your ePortfolio When you work on/add things to your ePortfolio When and for what purpose you will need to use or present your ePortfolio
- 7. As a learner - What do you do now? Research things Listen, read, write, draw and design things Practice reading, writing, drawing, designing and making things Problem solve THEN DO Course work projects or investigations Plan Do Review
- 8. What? - the ePortfolio Process Recognise that something needs to be done or learnt Plan how to do it or learn it Check and share plans Do it or learn something Collect digital evidence what has been done or learnt Review and reflect on what has been done or learnt Select evidence that will add something to the ePortfolio Link selected evidence into ePortfolio structure Share and present evidence of plans, learning and achievement
- 9. What? – the ePortfolio Process Plan what you need to do Check and share your plan DO IT! Record evidence of what you have done or learnt Share and present evidence Select and link evidence ePortfolio Review and reflect on what you have done Recognise that something needs to be done or learnt
- 10. When will I compile my ePortfolio? Every lesson, every time you are working on an assignment or investigation Outside of school member of a sports team + coaching awards drama productions part time job Volunteer for community work Duke of Edinburgh award schemes etc two examples Work in a subject Geography Target setting meeting
- 11. Working in a Geography lesson You have been asked to write a report on the environmental impact of tourism on a local village You have completed an Action Plan to enable you to complete the assignment by a given date You have decided to include a litter survey and have collected survey data and attempted to analyse You have written your report on a word processor and analysed your data using a spreadsheet You have linked your report into your ePortfolio and have included your reflections on: What you have learnt The quality, relevance and completeness of your report How you collected analysed your data How you managed your time and work load What you will do differently the next time you work on an assignment
- 12. towards the end of the assignment You will sit down with your teacher and use the evidence in your ePortfolio to share and discuss your reflections on: The progress you have made against the targets that you agreed after your last piece of work What you have learnt The quality, relevance and completeness of your report How you collected analysed your data How you managed your time and work load What you will do differently the next time you work on an assignment You will agree targets that will help you with your next assignment You will include these targets in your ePortfolio
- 13. Target setting review meeting You will be asked to attend a meeting with your Tutor to review the progress that you are making. For this meeting your ePortfolio will need to store: Your plans from your previous review meeting Your Working at Levels for all subjects Your Target Level for all subjects Your Effort Grade for all subjects The most challenging work you have done Personal reflections on your achievements and and progress your plans for the next few weeks This information must be stored in your ePortfolio before the review meeting.
- 14. In the review meeting Your Tutor will want you to look back at the plans you agreed at your previous review meeting and discuss whether you have followed your plans Your Tutor will want to compare your target grades with your ‘working at’ grades for all subjects. They will be interested in your personal reflections about: why you are meeting or beating your targets Why you are not meeting your targets What additional support you might need What feedback and advice your teachers have given you What you have enjoyed Your Tutor will then want you to discuss your plans and targets that might include: how you will work during the next few weeks – effort level, where you will work etc How you will access additional support what subjects you will concentrate on how you will handle homework After the meeting you will need to think about what has been discussed and will need to update your ePortfolio so that includes your latest plans
- 15. End of year review meeting Competency based interviews – a Separate Podcast