vConnecting with Rebecca Petersen at AAEEBL
A little self-archiving here for a couple of vConnecting sessions that we did last week at Campus Technology and AAEEBL in Boston. This particular one is with Rebecca Petersen. Enjoy :)
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mLearning at Campus Technology 2011
This past week I spent a few days at the Campus Technology conference and Expo (incidentally it was also collocated with the AAEEBL ePortfolio conference) and it was quite illuminating! I wanted to spend some more time with ePortfolios, but I ended up spending most of my time in eLearning (and oddly enough Rubrics, but more on those on another post). Three sessions I went to dealt with mLearning: Engaging Faculty: Observations from the ACU Mobile Learning Initiative (Scott Perkins & George Saltsman, Abilene Christian University) Using iPads to Produce and Publish in an Educational Reporting Class (Wendy Chapman & Bill Cells, USC Annenberg School of Communication) Welcome to Class, please take out your cellphones (Mark Frydenberg, Bentley University) There were quite a few interesting things to take away from each session! The ACU Mobile Learning Initiative (MLI) and the session with Mark Frydenberg had quite a few things in common. In the AC...
The importance of Portfolios while searching for a job
I posted this as a discussion topic in one of my LinkedIn groups, but no takers! Everyone seems to be paying lipservice to Portfolios, but no one (that I've seen in groups) has talked about their effectiveness. Your thoughts? //Start of copied info from LinkedIn// This thought came to me while reading the discussion on the importance of a degree/certificate in ID. So here's a question for all of you: How important is a Portfolio when searching for your new ID job? Many people place a spotlight on the importance of portfolios of ePortfolios (in addition to experience, recommendations and perhaps a degree of some sort in education) but I've seen three points AGAINST portfolios that are coming to my attention 1) Recruiters or employers don't necessarily have the time to review your portfolio. You may have done excellent work but when they are looking through a tall pile of applicants (made event taller by portfolios to go through), do hiring managers really have ...
ePortfolios - my take
Response to a colleague on sister campus, via our campus technology Google Group -- check out Carrie's original post here : Carrie, I was debating whether to leave a comment on your blog (as well as post on the Google group) or whether to post on my blog and the Google Group. Since this seemed like a rather lengthy topic I opted to post on my EdBlog :-) Speaking of Blackboard...all I can say about that LMS is "bleh". We use WebCT Vista (aka Blackboard Vista) on our campus. I'm sure that the ePortfolio trial we had at our campus was because we couldn't wait for WebCT to implement something in their LMS products. Of course looking at some of the social features of Vista all I can say is that it's good that we started a trial instead of waiting for the LMS vendors to do something (it would have probably been bad anyway ;-) ) I personally don't have an ePortfolio, opting instead to list my academic work in my online CV (under print and online). In a sense...