Online portfolios

2. Online portfolios
Professional identity creation and Assessment AS
learning

3. WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED
LEARNING?
• TECHNOLOGY THAT ENHANCES THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
• SUPPORT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
• DIGITAL TEL – EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE
• TEL TOOLS
Dr Candice Livingston

4. WHY?
• ALLOWS FOR LEARNERS TO ADJUST THE PACE OF THEIR LEARNING
• MORE RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE
• MULTIMODAL – APPEALING TO DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES
• LEARNING AS SOCIAL PRACTICE
• LEARNERS ARE ENGAGED INSTEAD OF PASSIVE
• PERSONALISED LEARNING
• FLEXIBLE PEDAGOGIES
• ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Dr Candice Livingston

5. e Portfolios
Electronic portfolios eP
Professional portfolios
Digital portfolios
Digital Identity
• As assessment
• As identity
• As a story

6. What research shows?
Building Professional Self Identities (positive impact) – critical thinking – importance of
images and narrative
Coherent narrative of past, present and future
Expand on prior understandings and ways of being (Eliot and Turns, 2013; Nguyen, 2013;
Seifert and Chattaraman, 2016; Munday, Rowley and Polly, 2017)
Careers where a strong sense of identity is needed - eP emerged as a vehicle through which
identity is negotiated and constructed – future orientated thinking (learning in relation to
their future lives) – (Bennett, Rowley, Dunbar-Hall, Hitchcock and Blom, 2014)
External frame of reference – employers
Internal frame of reference - emerging realizations of their own values and interests –
identity creation

7. Narrative pedagogy
Identity is a life story (MacAdams, 1985)
‘Emplotment’ – making sense of the narrative identity created – the assembly of a
series of historical events into a narrative with a plot (McAlpine, 2005)

8. Transformative
learning

9. What should be included: (non
negotiable) Philosophy statement /
professional statement
CV / professional
qualifications
Photographs
Experiences: conferences and
community engagement etc
Any important
roles you have
fulfilled: leadership
etc
Selected artefacts:
documents, videos
and certificates
References

11. Google sites
https://gsuite.google.com/products/sites/
https://support.google.com/sites/answer/6372878?hl=en

12. Example of online portfolio
https://sites.google.com/castleberryisd.net/sampleteacherportfolio/home