Requirements:
The ePortfolio is to be used for the whole of your unit/course/career and you will also post to the forum and reflect on the activity. View the ePortfolio shell that has been created:
https://eportfolioeg.wikispaces.com/.
You are required to create an ePortfolio shell that can be added to over your degree and career as a teacher. (THIS SECTION I HAVE COMPLETED ALREADY)
It is based on the National Professional Standards for Graduate Teachers
(AITSL) This is your ePortfolio, so you need to think of a name and look/feel that suits you.
I USED WEEBLY TO CREATE MY ePORTFOLIO.
Task:
2.1 Create your ePortfolio shell. You will be adding to the ePortfolio over the trimester. Begin this week by setting up the shell and adding to it over the
trimester. When the assignment is due, all components will be in place. Ensure that you enable all people marking with access to your ePortfolio. Write an introduction to yourself on your front page.( THIS SECTION I’VE ALREADY COMPLETED)
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS BELOW –
2.2 Write your technology reflections on creating your ePortfolio. What worked, what didn’t, what would you do next time.
2.3 “Why would you reflect on your learning activities?”.
SECOND PART: Week Advanced word processing, forum postings and reflections.
Requirements: demonstrate some advanced word processing skills such as track changes, inserting images, reflect on the activity and post to the forum.
Weekly Task:
(THIS FIRST SECTION I’VE ALREADY COMPLETED- I’ll upload all the parts I’ve completed so you can understand the activity better and respond to the answers correctly.
3.1 You are the teacher of a Stage 3 class (approximately Year 5/6, children aged around 11 years). You have set your students a task that must be completed.
Jenny has completed the assignment, a segment can be found below, called “Jenny’s Assignment”. Jenny’s instructions were to write on a topic of interest on something that has happened recently. As the teacher, your task is to mark Jenny’s writing using features such as track changes, insert comments, strike through, speech bubbles, highlighting, shading, smiley faces, images, etc.
Jenny’s story must be marked on a computer using word processor tools. The completed marked assignment is your assessment task. Please correct Jenny’s assignment using many word processing features.
Note: This task is assessing your ability to demonstrate a variety of word processing tools. It is NOT assessing your ability to find mistakes in the text.
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS BELOW:
3.2 “What is the purpose and/or benefit of providing timely and appropriate feedback to students?”.
3.3 Write your technology reflections of the advanced word processing activity.
THIRD PART: Week: Spreadsheet skills, forum posting and reflections Requirements: Demonstrate spreadsheet skills, reflect on the activity and post to the forum.
Weekly Task:
(THIS SECTION I’VE COMPLETED ILL UPLOAD FOR YOU)
4.1 You are being supplied with basic spreadsheet information, see “Classroom spreadsheet details” below. You are to demonstrate your ability to use a spreadsheet by adding formulas and chart. Also creating a pie graph and a column graph.
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS BELOW:
4.2 Write your technology reflections on the spreadsheet activity- Classroom spreadsheet
4.3 “How can using spreadsheet to keep students’ records inform your teaching?”
FOURTH PART: Week 5: Mind map, forum postings and reflections
(IN THIS SECTION I HAVN’T COMPLETED ANYTHING- YOU NEED TO CREATE A MIND MAP & ANSWER THE QUESTIONS)
(COMPLETE ALL)
Requirements: create a mind map after a brain storming session with your peers in the forum.
You are to consider a social networking tool that could be used in the classroom. Mind map how it could be used.
Weekly Task:
5.1 Create a Mind Map. There are a variety of free downloadable mind mapping programs from the Internet. Go exploring and find one that suits your needs.
Brainstorm with your peers on the Moodle Forum “Mind Mapping Braining
Storming Forum” on the components of your Mind Map.
The questions to be brainstormed on the forum are:
• Think of a social networking tool (YOU TUBE) that could be used in your chosen area as a teacher (MY CHOSEN AREA IS High school). There are a variety of social networking tools from which to choose – a sample can be found at:
https://edit100.wikispaces.com. Consider how that tool could be used in your chosen area.
(THE SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOL I’VE CHOSEN IS YOU TUBE)
• You are to brainstorm ideas on what you would place in the Mind Map.
• Create an image out of your completed mind map in a .gif, .jpg, or .bmp
Format and insert in your ePortfolio.
5.2 Answer the question “What tools could be used to be creative. Identify and explain the risks to students’ well-being and safety while using these creative resources and describe how to mitigate these risks”.
5.3 Write your technology reflections of the mind mapping activity
5.4 Add your mind map, reflection and forum posts to your ePortfolio.
Note: A mind map should have interconnection nodes – it is not a tree diagram.
Learning Outcomes addressed in this assignment (LO) for those students enrolled in EDIT 100:
1: Explain and demonstrate how digital resources and tools can be used to enable deeper student engagement with curriculum and to support a range of approaches and strategies to learning and teaching.
2: Describe and demonstrate the use of digital resources and tools to support the location, analysis, evaluation and processing of information.
3: Use digital resources and tools, safely legally and ethically including cyber safety practices, respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources.
4: Identify and explain the risks to students’ well-being and safety while using digital resources and tools and describe how to mitigate these risks.
5: Use digital resources and tools to provide a range of opportunities for sharing, communication and collaboration, including: collaborative and cooperative learning; engaging parents/carers in their children’s learning; enhancing professional practice available through online communication with experts and community representatives; and contribution to professional and community sites, online discussions and forums.
6: Understand and demonstrate competence during professional placement in a school setting.