Thinking Outside the Binder: Online Portfolios for Professional Review
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Thinking Outside the Binder:
Online Portfolios for Professional Review
John BarrittAcademic English StudiesLewis & Clark College
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Online Portfolios Process = professional development
Cultivate technological literacy
Exposure to new tools for classroom
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Getting Started Identify / bridge gaps in tech literacy
Adopt a pedagogical stance that targets “multiliteracies”
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Multiliteracies The New London Group (1996)
Literacy includes “negotiating a multiplicity of discourses.”
Take into account “culturally and linguistically diverse and increasingly globalized societies.”
“[T]he proliferation of communications channels and media supports and extends cultural and subcultural diversity.”
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Future of EAP Preparing learners for participation in global
discourse communities
Peer networks
“Cultural and subcultural diversity”
Alternatives to western-centered research discourse (e.g. journals)
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Documentation Blogs
Videos
Podcasts
VoiceThreads
Discussion Forums
Moodle Pages
PowerPoints
Images
PDFs
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Tagging Non-linear organization
Facilitates sharing across global peer networks
Indicate interrelationships
An added layer of meaning
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Student Work Public
Portable
Private (password protected)
Connected
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Advantages Over Binders Preservation of artifacts in a digital format
Portability
Accessibility
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Multiple Intelligences Support your own learning preference
Photos / videos of classroom activities and field trips
Video commentary
Audio commentary
Mindmapping (lesson design)
Workshop presentations
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Promotional Materials Accessible
Showcasing use of Web 2.0 tools in classroom
Increase visibility of program
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Remembrances of Things Past
The changing face of the technological landscape
The case of Ning
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Archiving Artifacts Jing
Screenshots
PDFs
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Social Media = New Opportunities
To engage students linguistically
To receive input / produce output
Situate language learning in contexts that are socially meaningful to them
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Portfolio 2.0 Opportunities to master Web 2.0 tools
“Communicative competence” for the digital age
Wash over to paper-based colleagues
Exposure to new tools for enhancing & extending the classroom experience
“Hybrid” courses, “blended” learning
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References
McKay, S. (2002). Teaching English as an international language: Rethinking goals and approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The New London Group. (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. Harvard Educational Review. 66(1). Retrieved fromhttp://wwwstatic.kern.org/filer/blogWrite44ManilaWebsite/paul/articles/A_Pedagogy_of_Multiliteracies_Designing_Social_Futures.htm
Stevens, V. (2005). Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments. TESL-EJ. 9(2).
Swales, J.M. (1990). Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.