IPAD & PAPERLESS The e-portfolio Challenge Solved
23 NOVEMBER, 2013 EMIRATES COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
ABU DHABI
MS. SAFWA ABDUL-AZIZ ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Why E-portfolios?
THE CHALLENGE: A Teacher’s document process
E-portfolio Advice
THE CHALLENGE SOLVED
CONCLUSIONS
RESOURCES
DEMONSTRATION
BEFORE E-PORTFOLIOS
FRUSTRATION
AFTER E-PORTFOLIOS
CONFUSION
Why E-portfolios?
With Flipped and e-learning classrooms, or classrooms that
promote anytime anywhere learning… Then the
workload must keep up!
More organized, More effective, More efficient.
THE CHALLENGE
THE CHALLENGE: A TEACHER’S document PROCESS-
teacher to student
student manipulate (work) student to teacher
teacher manipulate (grade) teacher to student document stored
E-PORTFOLIO ADVICE
E-portfolio advice:
EACH STAGE MUST HAVE AN ELECTRONIC SOLUTION
- Find the process that best suits the classroom. Be
willing and flexible enough to change the process as technology grows.
THE CHALLENGE SOLVED A TEACHER’S DOCUMENT PROCESS
Teacher to student- Email, itunesu, edmodo, LMS,
schoology, showbie, Student manipulate (work)- Adobe, type on PDF,
showbie Student to teacher- Adobe, type on PDF, Showbie Teacher manipulate (grade)- Type on PDF, Showbie Teacher to student- Type on PDF, Showbie Document stored- Showbie, printopia
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS:
Find and keep multidimensional solutions. App use mantra should be MINIMALISM.
Find fewer aps that do MANY things
vs. MANY apps that do MANY things.
RESOURCES-APPS
RESOURCES-APPS
1) Showbie 2) Type on PDF (free)
3) Printopia (for mac or dropbox) 4) Schoology 5) Edmodo 6) Itunesu
7) Adobe Acrobat
