Tech Thursdays - Using an Electronic Portfolio

Week 2: Jan 30 - Using an Electronic Portfolio

In this session we'll be looking at our middle school portfolio system. We'll see what it can do and then start using it by creating a page and adding media to it.

Videos for session: (Video 1)  (Video 2)

Big Idea: Portfolios help you by:

• showing growth over time, leading to reflection and improved learning
• providing a place to organize and store learning artifacts
• providing tools where you can seek and get high quality feedback
• providing tools where you can network with like-minded learners to increase learning
• providing you a publication medium where you can exhibit learning and market yourself

Topics:

• Intro to middle school’s system
• Learning Interface: Files, Directory, Pages
• Create a page
• Insert Youtube Video
• Insert Image / image gallery
• Insert Google Doc
• Share a page various ways

Help videos for using Mahara efolio system

Tech Thursday 1 - Networks and Learning

Week 1 - Jan 23 -  Social or Networked Learning

How learning can (and should) be different today. Serendipity, connecting, finding, being findable, filtering, access to expertise/ideas (mentoring chart)

Big Idea: Networks are changing society, rewriting the rules, causing disruption and creating great opportunities. Connecting ideas and information changes everything.

Please watch the four videos below before coming. This session is meant to be conversational.

Video 1 - Networked Learning -

Video 2 - Where Good Ideas Come From -

Video 3 - The Network is the Learning -

Video 4 - Developing a Learning Network -

Informal Learning Poster