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ePortfolios Competitions: Everyone’s a Winner

Jacqui PattenEdith Cowan University

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• PebblePad Pilot 2012 Semester 2 units• Targeted Capstone & 1st Year• Finding guinea pigs• 16 units across all 4 faculties (820 students)

• By November 2012 first ePortfolio Competition

In The Beginning

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In This Session

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Why did we do it?

What were the benefits?

Where are they now?

How did we do it?

Showcase of Examples

What did we learn?

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Why Did We Do It?

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• Research– City University of Hong Kong 2009– Clemson University, South Carolina 2010

• Raise the profile to ePortfolio’s – Teaching and Learning– Employability

• We wanted assets we could use as examples

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How Did We Do It?• The Correct Forum – ECULTURE 2012• Promotion

– Conference Web Site– Shameless (Blackboard sites, electronic newsletters,

video walls, slides for lecturers, phone calls, going to lectures – bringing chocolate pebbles!)

• Incentive– Chance to win an iPad– Chance to be a winner

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• Split Categories– First Years– Other Undergrad– Academic Staff – Graduated Students (2nd year of competition) – Professional Staff (2nd year of competition)

• How to Enter– Self subscription workspace– Entry form was an interactive Pebble Template– Get in touch with me!

Make It Easy

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Housekeeping - Setting The Rules

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• Legal Document– Protect the entrant – Protect ECU

• What could be entered– Workbooks– Webfolios (produced in Pebble)

• How would they be judged– Rubrics – Presentations and Judging

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What Did the Rubric Look Like?

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Prestigious JudgesAlison Poot is the Australian Director of Pebble Learning. She works with education institutions and professional bodies across Australia and New Zealand to support the implementation of the Personal Learning Space, PebblePad. Alison has been involved in the Higher Education sector for more than 20 years in a variety of roles including student counselling, coordination of first year and retention programs, evaluation and quality assurance, and project management. She moved to Pebble Learning early in 2010 from the University of Tasmania where, amongst other tasks, she managed the institutional ePortfolio Project.   

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Meet Our Judges – Jamie PattenJamie Patten has 18 years Oil & Gas experience in Mechanical Engineering, Construction & Project Management. He has worked for Petreco, KBR, Chevron & WEL in North Sea & Australia. He has recently spent 9 months in Singapore as a Project Manager for an FPSO refurbishment project and is now the Asset Manager for Vincent FPSO offshore Exmouth. He has a keen interest in how ePortfolios can be used in the field of engineering to evidence real proof of capabilities.

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Benefits

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Increased Profile

Huge diversity of examples

Statements during presentations

gave confirmation

Understanding of what could be achieved

Lots of publicity and new users

Centre stage at next

ECULTURE

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Lessons Learnt

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• You need actual users– 20 entries first year / 40 entries second year

• Funding – First year was part of the ePortfolio funding– Second year - Contribution from Pebble Learning– Third year - ?

• How work is submitted – published links expire• Audience participation in judging

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Showcase

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Everyone’s a Winner - Where are they now?Name Category NowKate Gill Undergrad Finalist Journalist writes for Four Four Two

soccer magazine, plays for the Matilda’sTim Oliver Graduated Student Winner App designer for mobile devicesPam Basden Professional Staff Winner Continues to use Pebble for PD and is

here at PebbleBash to share her story

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Questions

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THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

For further info contact

Jacqueline Patten - j.patten@ecu.edu.au

School of Nursing and Midwifery / Centre for Learning and Development