[Secondary] RE: [Advisory] Hot topics - e-Portfolios

Ian Lynch ianrlynch@googlemail.com
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:12:24 +0000


When we stop focusing on buying technologies and worrying about
procurement frameworks and we start promoting learning through the use
of collaborative technologies displacing three part lessons delivered
from the front of the class, we might make quicker progress.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Ray Tolley <rjt@maximise-ict.co.uk> wrote:
> Mark, Chris at al,
>
> As some of you know, anything to do with e-Portfolios is my full-time
> passion.  I have almost 5,000 readers of my blog from 95 countries.
>
> It is a crying shame that Becta appear to have chickened out of anything to
> do with e-Portfolios since their initial 'expectation' some five years ago!
> I believe that people around the world are looking to the UK for realistic
> solutions.
>
> Whether or not a 'hot topic' for conference, I would really like to enter
> into a constructive dialogue with others about the place of the e-Portfolio
> in an environment where most schools have or expect to have good VLEs with
> remote access and on-line reporting etc.
>
> The papers written by the university researchers do not at present provide
> realistic models for mainstream education.  The institutionalised
> e-Portfolios which show some real promise for some schools do not really
> meet the criteria of personal ownership and true portability.  There is a
> need for an e-safe collaborative structure with which school leaders can
> feel comfortable.  The various DIY versions of blogs and web-pages although
> technically interesting do not meet a number of significant criteria.
> Questions of management and interoperability need to be understood and
> resolved.
>
> I regularly attempt to discuss these questions on my blog:
> http://www.efoliointheuk.blogspot.com/
>
> Ray Tolley  FEIDCT, NAACE Fellow, ACQI, MBILD
> ICT Education Consultant
> Maximise ICT Ltd
> P:  http://raytolley.v2efolioworld.mnscu.edu/
> B:  http://www.efoliointheuk.blogspot.com/
> W:  http://www.maximise-ict.co.uk/eFolio-01.htm
> Winner of the IMS 'Leadership Regional Award 2009'
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: advisory-admin@talk.naace.org [mailto:advisory-admin@talk.naace.org]
> On Behalf Of Chris Sharples
> Sent: 30 January 2010 17:25
> To: 'Mark Chambers'; 'Advisory Naace'
> Subject: RE: [Advisory] Hot topics
>
> Can the current assessment system cope with demonstrating gains in eLearning
> in the future?
>
> (Eportfolios anyone?)
>
> Chris
> www.gr8ict.com
> twitter/gr8ict.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: advisory-admin@talk.naace.org [mailto:advisory-admin@talk.naace.org]
>> On Behalf Of Mark Chambers
>> Sent: 30 January 2010 12:23
>> To: Advisory Naace
>> Subject: [Advisory] Hot topics
>>
>> Given the opportunity and 300 of us together at Strategic Conference -
>> what are the hot topics that we will all be debating?
>>
>> Innovation in the context of a Managed Service?
>> Sustainablee ICT in the current financial climate?
>> Does institutional self evaluation work?
>> Network security/Child safety - where should the balance lie?
>>
>> What do we think colleagues?
>>
>> Mark
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