Course Dimensions: Online graphics

[SueFolley]

It sounds like you have given this a lot of thought and are doing all the right things. It is a lot more difficult to design online learning courses where students work through tasks in their own time and not in a corhort working through simiar things at the same time. It is much more difficult to build in peer learning and develop social presence if students are not on the same topic/section at the same time. In terms of eportfolio, I have recently seen an instance of Google sites being used for eportfolios and it looked really good. The tutor was able to create a template for the students to work off, but then the customise it to look how they want. It looked quite impressive, though haven’t used it myself. I haven’t come across Study Cloud before – so off to have a look at what that has to offer.

[GraphDesProject]

My colleague, Tim Bones, does make website portfolios with our f2f students – this year he has shown them how to use Wix as well as, other open access software and these look really good too. But you can make some really strong portfolios simply from good old WordPress blogs anyway, so its all good!!

Sancha

[James Kerr]

The ability to create electronic portfolios and link them easily to other social networking sites, and not just in a “closed, black-box” environment is a side project I am working on.  I see a need for a quasi-social space where learners of any age can keep track of their projects, no matter what the format, and be able to include badges and credentials, then not only link that to current SN sites but also easily be able to invite/include others to view their portfolios.  There are a number of ePortfolio resources available, but I haven’t found one yet that does quite what I am considering.  Think of it as a combination of LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Google Docs, all mashed together into one resources.  Examples of writing, pictures, art, music, videos, recordings, etc can all be catalogued and assembled into a living digital portfolio that would easily allow people to share their digital works, whether to potential employers, colleagues, backers, etc.

Thoughts?

[philtubman]

James,

We use ‘mahara’ at lancaster which i think does most of what you say.. integrating social media… ah.. perhaps if you can rss., mayabe html the fancy ocTEL TAGS_explorer (thats a friday job coming on…). it think the rest you could ’embed’ with the right html, perhaps thats another friday job lol…

you can certainly share publicy using either ‘public’ or ‘secret URL’ which you control. i believe badges are ‘in the post’

It is linked to our moodle by mnet so you can ‘send’ discussions and submissions to the portfolio content area too…

[ElizabethECharl]

James and Phil – We have recently signed up to Mahara – so I shall look forward to discovering how well students and staff use it.

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