Okay...
Not to worry, I have figured out how to become a recognised follower. If I actually slowed down and considered the value of reading the little subheadings that are on all blogs, I'd have figured this out much earlier! It's the same with instructions really, I have to really make myself read them as my impulse is to dive straight in! Hopefully a lessson learned!

Now I'm a little confused!
I have looked at (and posted some comments, or I tried to) on other people's blogs, yet I don't come up as a follower of that blog? How do you become a listed follower so people know I'm making the effort to read their interesting blogs?
Can anyone help?

It's Friday... how did that happen? The week has flown by. The problem with the whole blogging experience is that you set out with the ambition to write something in your own blog but then you become side tracked looking at other people's blogs! Mind you... it's still been useful reading about other people's experiences and thoughts in relation to the world of blogging and the aspect they selected to investigate for the course this week.

A reflection on using pebblepad.

I have found navigating around this programme relatively straight forward so far. I really like the thought bubbles as they can quickly capture a reflection at the time.

Although some people do not see the relevance of the beach theme, I like it. I find it relaxing and this helps me to be reflective in my thinking, which sounds daft but it is true! I also like the fact that you can still edit your entries if you see mistakes or have left something out.

I would improve the programme by having a spell checker in the assets as I have found that I make typing errors and then have to edit later. I prefer the opportunity to do this as I go along and like my 'typos' to be spotted and underlined!

Although my thoughts about pebblepad are all quite positive at the moment, this may change as I try to do something more complicated... watch this space!

Benefits of sharing assets and providing students with the ability to create their own webfolios

In recent years webfolios have been promoted as the next great innovation in education (Kilbrane and Milman, 2003)

Digital portfolios give the opportunity to students and graduates to demonstrate their skills in the learning field. They can be delivered on digital media like floppy, zip, or CD/DVD disks or via Internet. The use of portfolios as a method of documenting student progress is common practice in higher education. In some professions it is a requirement to prepare electronic portfolios. Although electronic portfolios are most often used as an evaluation tool of students learning, they can also be used as a way of documenting students/graduate skills in their fields.


Some benefits:

• Enhance ICT skills and from researching into their use, it appears that creating e-portfilios is a valuable skill to develop

• Allows for student participation and active ownership of academic work and progress

• Helps to solve the problem of storage of hard copy portfolios. Electronic storage allows for offering models of exemplary webfolios to future students as well as allowing for the use of programmable assessment throughy portfolios

• Encourage students to put together a cullmination of academic and practical experiences to provide a conceptual and experiential transition through their personal learning journey

• Can be adapted for particular audiences for the future, e.g. future employers

• Encourages reflection - learning is life long and such a portfolio can provide a personal and professional direction

• Allows students to focus on specific developmental issues that are imnportant to them

• Allows students to demonstrate the knowledge they felt was crucial to their learning experience

• Makes accessibility to muliple users easier

However...

I have 3 concerns...

1) Would there be any potential copywrite issues for graphics etc.?
2) Student privacy? Should Intranet rather than Internet be used?
3) Should we assume that all students have such access to computers... is it placing some students at a disadvantage if they do not have access to a P.C. at home?

What do you think?...

Some useful links:

http://jset.unlv.edu/18.1/asseds/smith.html

http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-preview.axd

Please add any useful links you may have or add a comment in response to the listed benefits!

Hello and welcome!

Thank you for visiting my blog to reflect upon participating on an e-moderating course. If you have any experiences of this nature, please chat away!
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