What's the background/context to this image? I like it, but would love to hear/see the accompanying discussion as well!

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I'd like to attend the Helen Barret all-day workshop. It says it must be a separate registration. Where do I find it? Thanks

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When Melissa shares applications of e-Portfolios facilitating Assessment "Of' and 'For" learning her points are brilliantly original and engaging. She incorporates learning inside the classroom and throughout the student's life. Her concept of Higher-Order Thinking dynamically defines Reflection as an 'a-ha' moment.

After listening to Melissa and reading Pink's "Motivation" I encourage my teacher candidates to shift from Performance Standards to Learning Standards so we all find our selves enthusiastically responding, " a-ha! I never thought of that" rather than "Correct."

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My tutors are nervous about the idea that I'm relying on my PLN for a sample....does anyone have any evidence of research carried out this way? I'm planning on using surveys and interviews but I want to solely use my online network to demonstrate the capability.

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I'd like to launch this thread for anyone who wants to post a conference or journal call for papers related to teaching and learning.

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I see that some members are starting regional chapters of AAEEBL. Maybe this forum can be a clearinghouse where people can start planning a regional chapter. If so, post in this forum, but change the subject line to your region so you are easier to find.

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You can join AAEEBL through an institutional membership. AAEEBL is an important center for ePortfolio information and contacts and for guidance for institutional transformation in the knowledge culture. See the membership page to find out more. I am happy to see so many members of this site and hope some of you will also want to join the Association.
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Your institution can join AAEEBL, during our membership drive from now until Feb 15, 2010, for the special membership dues rate of $800 USD. The regular rate this year is $600 per year. But for the next month, your institution can join for 18 months at the discounted rate.

I hope you will join us in our important and interesting work.

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The references to reflection are all too common in e-Portfolio discussions. However, it seems to me that far too often writers only suggest this as some form of self-indulgent introspection. One only has to browse through Helen Barrett's list of Metaphors to realise that the e-Portfolio can have a vast number of uses.

I like the idea of using reflection in respect of considering one's Life-Story - well as far as anyone has got! I also personally believe that reflection can never really be just about introspection but about listening to other people's views, of feedback from peers and mentors and making a balanced assessment of the totality of views,

I was very impressed by W.J. Popham's book, 'Transformative Assessment'. However, in terms of building upon feedback I really felt that there is a place for using given feedback in the reflexive processes.

My question, therefore is: Does anyone know of a good work on reflection, particularly if related to e-Portfolio thinking?

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It's good to see an association dedicated to the learning aspects of e-Portfolios as against the functionality. Although it might be a case of putting the cart before the horse, perhaps some might be thinking, 'Now we've got it, what do we do with it?' - and I look forward to this group spelling out and refining the broad spectrum of teaching and learning activities along with ARPEL.

We are all aware of the very wide range of e-Portfolio solutions - every one different and meeting different needs - and varying from some rather narrow commercial products to the free-ranging 'DIY' solutions that other more able students might wish to develop.

My overriding priority at the moment is to try and synthesise those elements of e-Portfolio practice which are uniquely an e-Portfolio solution as opposed to those tools, such as e-assessment products, which are better suited to being embedded within an institution's VLE. In terms of separating out the different functionalities, I have always said. 'Let the VLE do what the VLE does best, and let the e-Portfolio do what it can best do.

I appreciate that there will be other threads dealing with Authentication, defining Experience, and what we understand by Evidence-Based Learning. However, can I ask if this is the place to explore in some depth, even with case studies, how the e-Portfolio influences classroom-based teaching and learning. Here again, of course, is another whole platform for variability. Some schools still use a very formal approach to 'instruction' or teacher-controlled lessons - 'the sage on the stage', whereas other schools are begining to develop a far more personalised approach to learning, 'the guide by the side'.

I have tried to spell out some of these differences, from the perspective of UK schools, on my blog at: www.efoliointheuk.blogspot.com oops reached word-limit.

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