Using KnowledgeNET for E-Portfolios

Content for today

1. What is an E-Portfolio

2. What are the benefits?

3. What are the E-Portfolio tools in KN for

teachers and students?

4. How does the Parent Portal work?

5. How do we use the KN E-Portfolio tools?

6. Q and A

7. Whizz Bang Tools!

A classroom in the clouds ...

where

parents, teachers and learners

record,

share,

reflect on,

respond tolearning

What is an E-Portfolio?

Electronic Portfolio

or

Digital Portfolio

What are the Benefits?

Feedback and Feedforward Student Ownership & Voice

Collaborative Formative/Summative

Engagement Multi-media

Big Picture over time Reinforces Learning

Transportable Real-life skill

Monitoring Progress Goal Setting

Parental Involvement Next Steps

Metacognitive - Meta-learning Organised

More...

The power of feedback

• 134 meta-analyses – Whether

some influences were more or

less influential than others on

student achievement• 0.2 small, 0.4 medium, 0.6 large when

judging educational outcomes.

•Teaching Approach:

FEEDBACK?

•Effect Size 0.73

•10th highest out of 134

Feedback!• “Most programs and methods

that worked best were based

on heavy dollops of

feedback.”

• “The most effective forms of

feedback provide cues or

reinforcement to the learner,

are in the form of video, audio

or computer-assisted

instruction feedback, or relate

feedback to learning goals.”

E-Portfolio in

Teacher Portfolio: Web Diary

A place for teachers to record their professional

reflections/learning, etc.

similar to the concept of a learning journal but it is private to

the teacher and anyone he/she chooses to share it with.

Some schools are using this for appraisals.

KN Student E-Portfolio Tools

• Assignments

• Learning Stories

• Learning Journals

• Type text straight in

• Word documents, PDFs

• Powerpoints, Slideshows

• Spreadsheets, Graphs

• Video

• Movies

• Photos

• Brainstorms, Mind maps

• Collaborative Documents

• Voiceovers

• E-Books

• Avatars

The list is endless@Anything you can save or get html code for

Assignments

Assignment: Comprehension

Assignment: Reading

Assignment: Maths

Assignment: Thinking Strategy

Assignment: Home Learning

Learning Stories

Learning

Story:

Dance

Topic

Learning

Story:

Weekly

Reflection

Learning

Story:

Self

Portaits

Learning Story: Creative Writing

Learning Story: Advertising

Learning

Journals

Literacy: Reading Aloud Video

Literacy: Writing photo

Literac

y

Writing

Photos

over

time

Literacy: Audio file of narrative

Literacy: Letter-Sound Recognition Photo

Literacy: Word Recognition Video

Literacy: Connecting ideas photo

Maths: Fractions Video

Maths: Knowledge Assessment photo

Maths: Worksheet Photo

PE: Ball Skills Photo/Video

End of topic reflection

End of science topic assessment video

Pit Stop: Checking understanding

Reflection Section -

What could you do?

Caregiver Area

+

Student Assessment Data and

Evidence of Learning

Parent Portal: Caregiver Area

Parent Portal: Your child

• 1. School Records

•assessment

•attendance

•enrolment & personal details

• 2. KnowledgeNET

•learning journals

•learning stories

•assignments

•portfolio pages

• 3. Profile

•their child's KN profile

Some Whizz Bang!