Tags: Assessment | English | e-Portfolios | Secondary | Upper secondary |
Students from Mount Roskill Grammar School engaged in shared learning with their peers and subject teachers for NCEA Level 3 English using MyPortfolio.
In our school, e-learning is part of effective cycles of reflection and assessment, involving the wider community.
eLPF 2014
Teachers at Mt Roskill Grammar School wanted to create and facilitate opportunities for students to collaborate in different contexts to support their achievement in NCEA Level 3 English – which required "the use of discourse that demonstrates the ability to critically analyse and support ideas and points of view."
Facilitating shared learning, creating a supportive learning environment, and encouraging reflection are a key to promoting student learning, The New Zealand Curriculum, p35 .
To identify whether student engagement and achievement could be enhanced through the integration of an online learning environment where students could:
The teacher inquiry explored what was needed to increase student collaboration and reflection.
e-Portfolios create an online learner-focused environment which enables:
MyPortfolio was selected as an online learning environment because it:
Teachers and students at Mount Roskill Grammar School utilised a range of functions and tools to support learning activities and teacher modelling. These included teacher and/or students:
The learning was designed to accentuate “the form of thinking that happens when groups think together online”, Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age, 2011 .
Mt Roskill students:
Year 13s talk about using MyPortfolio in English. They find accessing each other's work, sharing ideas, and receiving feedback beneficial for their own learning.
MyPortfolio provided an effective platform for student collaboration and reflection.
The purpose of this inquiry was to design learning opportunities, using MyPortfolio, that facilitated student:
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Tools for e-portfolios
e-Portfolios in the classroom
webinar (14 June, 2012). Teachers from Russell St School discuss:
- the pedagogy and purpose for e-portfolios
- how they are encouraging students to reflect on their work more deeply and the benefits to students' learning
- how they setup e-portfolios – software, documentation, staff expectations, and professional development. View the PowerPoint
and download PDFs
used with their e-portfolios.
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Find out more about the software types used in this snapshot.