Simon Webster

School of Further and Secondary EducationUniversity of Plymouth

Context

Project rationale

What is PebblePad

The University approach to PebblePad

• http://plymouth.ac.uk/

Project approaches to PebblePad

Professional standards

http://www.lluk.org/2986.htm

EK 1.3 Ways to develop, establish and promote peer- and self-assessment.

EP 1.3 Develop, establish and promote peer- and self-assessment as a toolfor learning and progression.

tagging• http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2065633/Tag

• http://www.visualthesaurus.com/landing/?ad=ddc.large&utm_medium=large&utm_campaign=VT&utm_source=ddc&word=tag&lang=en

Assessment woes

Further issues arising from the research

• Unfamiliar interface• Computing access• Integrated approach across the partnership• Where next?

Its not windows!http://wordperhect.net/

Computing access

• Trainees were able to effectively access PebblePad from campus computer suites and their homes

• Most teaching rooms are not equipped with computers for students to use

• Only some (20%) students brought laptops or netbooks with them to class

ReferencesBateman, S.; Brooks, C.; & McCalla, G. (2006) ‘Collaborative tagging approaches for ontological metadata in adaptive e-learning systems’

available at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.61.8032&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Berendt, B. & Hanser, C. (2009) ‘Tags are not metadata, but “just more content” – to some people’ available at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.70.9086&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Hunter, J.; Khan, I.; & Gerber, A. (2008) ‘HarvANA – Harvesting Community Tags toEnrich Collection Metadata’ available at http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~agerber/papers/JCDL2008.pdf

Kay, R. & Knaack, L. (2005) ‘A Case for Ubiquitous, Integrated Computing in Teacher Education’ Technology, Pedagogy and Education Vol. 14, No.3, 2005 pp391-412

Lucas, N. (2002) ‘The introduction of national standards and compulsory teacher education for further education college teachers in England: issues and challenges’ Teacher Development Vol. 6, No. 3, 2002

Mathes, A. (2004) ‘Folksonomies – Cooperative classification and communication through shared metadata’ available at http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html

Nasta, T. (2007) ‘Translating national standards into practice for the initial training of Further Education (FE) teachers in England’ Research in Post-Compulsory Education Vol. 12, No. 1, March 2007, pp. 1–17

Takahashi, T. & Pollard, J. (2000) ‘Word Perhect’ available at http://wordperhect.net/frame.html Tolley, R. (2008) ‘The prime directives for an e-portfolio’ available at http://www.maximise-ict.co.uk/Prime%20Directives-2.pdf

Wikipedia ‘Tag (meta data)’ available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29

Picture referencesSlide 1 http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=29636 Slide 2 http://www.synchrocity.co.uk/images/EventImages/Graduation_Hat_Toss.jpgSlide 4 https://wiki.unisa.edu.au/download/attachments/1441840/pebblepad.jpgSlide 11 Product of a long, dark evening!Slide 13 Screen grab from http://wordperhect.net/