Realizing your 1st e portfolio

Realizing your 1 st

by James (Jim) Buckingham
MAODE (Open U), MA – Adult Education (Central Michigan), TEFL (Trinity)
at HCT – Men’s Campus, Al Ain , 14 April 2012

Realizing your 1 st

Outline
•Why bother?
•Review how a PD ePortfolio differs
•Suggest criteria to help choose a format
• Strategy 1 - blogging with Wordpress
• Strategy 2 – LinkedIn
• Strategy 3 – Facebook
• Strategy 4 – wikis
•Resources

Realizing your 1 st

• Why bother?
• evidence your PD growth
• demonstrate your interests / growth
• demonstrate your commitment to lifelong learning
• demonstrate a fundamental belief in personal /
professional growth
• gain accreditation / credit for your efforts
• replace your resume (?)

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• Why bother?
• possible public?
• self
• peers
• employer
• association / accreditation body
• future employers

Realizing your 1 st

Outline
•Why bother?
• Strategy 4 – wikis
Resources

Realizing your 1 st

• Review how a PD ePortfolio differs from
• employer portfolio
• prescriptive / limited
• length
• headings
• points to cover
• time frame to cover
• no interaction encouraged
• typically providing / offering an edited snapshot of
work / development covered by employee

Realizing your 1 st

• Review a PD ePortfolio
• your ePortfolio for Pro Development
• focuses on development / interests
• identifying these over time
• identifying these with help of peers
• encourages sharing / networking with peers
• evidences your teaching credentials (accreditation)
• reflects what you deem to be important to your
professional goals / personal development

Realizing your 1 st

• Suggest criteria to help choose a format
• low cost / no cost
• easy to realize
• flexible
flexible & adaptable to changing needs (i.e. easy to edit)
as your skills advance, use more of the utilities available
• scalable
capable of growing in size & complexity as you grow
• good “ROI “
time & energy invested provides a return - "investment"

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Why a blog makes a good ePortfolio:
•low cost
set up website, domain - $60 yr
•easy to realize
requires some learning of Wordpress)
•easy to build upon / flexible
very flexible
•scalable
almost no limits
•offers good ROI
ease of sharing, ease of access, quickly logged by Google search)

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•store & organise content in dynamic ways
chronologically (like a diary)
personalised tagging systems.
•present personal profile to the world
like a website
•enable others to follow your activities
using RSS feeds (like subscribing to a newspaper)

Realizing your 1 st

•Examples
• Barrett, H. (n.d.). Helen Barrett -My Portfolio. Helen
Barrett. Retrieved from
http://hbarrett.wordpress.com/my-portfolio/
• Buckingham, J. (n.d.). jamesbuckingham.net. Retrieved
April 13, 2012, from http://jamesbuckingham.net/
• VanDrimmelen, J. (n.d.). Jeff VanDrimmelen. Retrieved
April 13, 2012, from http://jeffvandrimmelen.info/

Realizing your 1 st

• Strategy 2 - LinkedIn
Why LinkedIn may be a good option:
•no cost
•easy to realize
requires some learning of LinkedIn
•easy to build upon
but less flexible than WordPress
•NOT as scalable
limits to the type& variety of content that can be added
•offers reasonable ROI
ease of sharing, ease of access, quickly logged by Google search but
sometimes limited to LinkedIn members only

Realizing your 1 st

•discussed by Sarah Stewart
• Stewart, S. (2011, January 22). Sarah Stewart: Does
LinkedIn work as an ePortfolio? Sarah Stewart. Retrieved
from
http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2011/01/does-linkedin

Realizing your 1 st

•Examples
• James Buckingham
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesbuckingham

Realizing your 1 st

Outline
•Why bother?
• Strategy 4 – Wikis
Resources

Realizing your 1 st

• Strategy 3 - Facebook
Why Facebook may be a good option:
•no cost
•easy to realize
requires some learning of LinkedIn
but less flexible than WordPress
•MUCH LESS scalable
limits to the type& variety of content that can be added
ease of sharing, ease of access (750 million users), quickly logged by Google

Realizing your 1 st

• Strategy 3 - Facebook
Why Facebook may be a good option:
•Resources
• ??????????

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• Strategy 4 - Wikis
Why Wikis may be a good option:
•no cost
•relatively easy to realize
requires some learning of each wiki format
very flexible ; perhaps as flexible as WordPress
•potentially scalable
depends on the wiki format used
ease of sharing, ease of access (750 million users), quickly logged by Google

Realizing your 1 st

• Strategy 4 - Wikis
Why Wikis may be a good option:
•Resources
• Creating an ePortfolio with Wikispaces. (2007). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5osJCF909qQ&feature=youtube_g
• Creating ePortfolios with GoogleApps - ePortfolio Resources. (n.d.).
Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://sites.google.com/site/eportfolios/How-To-Create-ePortfolios-wi
• Google Sites for ePortfolios. (2008). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDdLBcD68uA&feature=youtube_

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• Resources
Barrett, H. (n.d.-a). How To. Helen Barrett. Retrieved from http://hbarrett.wordpress.com/how-to/
Barrett, H. (n.d.-b). My Portfolio. Helen Barrett. Retrieved from
http://hbarrett.wordpress.com/my-portfolio/
Batson, T. (2010, April 7). ePortfolios, Finally! Campus Technology. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/04/07/eportfolios-finally.aspx
Buckingham, J. (n.d.). jamesbuckingham.net. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://jamesbuckingham.net/
Butterworth, A. (n.d.). Effective practice with e-portfolios. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2008/effectivepracticeeportfolios.aspx
Creating an ePortfolio with Wikispaces. (2007). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5osJCF909qQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
ePortfolio for Personal Development. (2008). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5w_XdroqUY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Google Apps. (n.d.). Creating ePortfolios with GoogleApps - ePortfolio Resources. Retrieved April
13, 2012, from
http://sites.google.com/site/eportfolios/How-To-Create-ePortfolios-with-GoogleApps

Realizing your 1 st

• Resources
Google Sites for ePortfolios. (2008). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDdLBcD68uA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Gray, L. (2008). Effective practice with e-portfolios : JISC. Higher Education Funding Council for
England. Retrieved from
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/effectivepracticeeportfolios.pdf
Gray, L. (n.d.). e-Portfolios - An overview. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/eportfolio
How to create e-portfolios for business, education, professional development or personal use.
(n.d.).Squidoo. Retrieved from http://www.squidoo.com/e-portfolios
Hussain, R., & Ng, H. (n.d.). A case-study: The adoption, adaptation and transformation of
Facebook as eportfolio in Higher Education. AACE Global Learn. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://www.aace.org/conf/glearn/sessions/index.cfm/fuseaction/PaperDetails?presentation_id=47373
Learning Technologie - Virginia Techs. (n.d.). English as a Second Language Education. ePortfolio
Initiatives at Virginia Tech | Virginia Tech. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://eportfolio.vt.edu/gallery/DeptsProgs/englishassecondlanged.html
mjmobbs. (n.d.). Creating a ePortfolio Using Wordpress. Scribd. Retrieved from
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20842800/Creating-a-ePortfolio-Using-Wordpress

Realizing your 1 st

• Resources
OASIS - University of North Caroline (Chapel Hill). (n.d.-a). Logging in / Introduction to Wordpress.
Retrieved from
http://media.oasis.unc.edu/instructional_technology/wordpress/wordpress-login-into.swf
OASIS - University of North Caroline (Chapel Hill). (n.d.-b). Writing / Editing Post page. Retrieved
from
http://media.oasis.unc.edu/instructional_technology/wordpress/wordpress-edit-content.swf
Silverman, R. E. (2012, January 24). No More Résumés, Say Some Firms. Wall Street Journal.
Retrieved from
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203750404577173031991814896.html#articleTabs=a
Stewart, S. (2011, January 22). Sarah Stewart: Does LinkedIn work as an ePortfolio? Sarah
Stewart. Retrieved from
http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2011/01/does-linkedin-work-as-eportfolio.html
VanDrimmelen, J. (n.d.). Use Wordpress to Create a Professional e-Portfolio — OASIS - Office of
Arts & Sciences Information Services. OASIS - University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). Retrieved
April 13, 2012, from
http://oasis.unc.edu/old-site/training/blog/use-wordpress-to-create-a-professional-e-portfolio

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