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An e-portfolio is a collection of levelled, moderated pupil work across all aspect s of the curriculum and all strands of ICT. It gives teachers access to a range of work carried out by children which has been levelled against the National Curriculum ICT level descriptors. New or supply teachers can access examples of work at different levels to demonstrate expectations and to understand how the work either achieves or fails to meet a level as well as understanding the next steps to move the pupil forward. All teachers could use it as a levelling aid, a moderation tool or simply to explore other teachers’ ideas for embedding ICT into different subjects. |
Electronic portfolios do not take up any physical space but can hold a great deal of information. All pupil work in any subject that has used ICT can be added to an electronic portfolio including video clips, sound files, multi-media presentations and web pages. These traditionally have been hard to present in paper format.
An e-portfolio will eventually demonstrate coverage of all strands of ICT and how ICT has been embedded in the curriculum. It could be used towards ICT Mark evidence, OfSTED or just as a show case of pupil work that could be shared on open days, parents’ evenings etc.
Most schools have traditionally created paper portfolios. Some have used floppy disk or CDs, but these take up a lot of space, get damaged and teachers need to be in the right place at the right time to access them. With an electronic portfolio, information can easily be stored in the school’s Digitalbrain portal so that it can be accessed anytime and anywhere. The Digitalbrain e-portfolio can store information that previously was saved on paper allowing teachers to look at work in its original multi-media form. These example pieces could also be shown on a whiteboard for teaching purposes.
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It would, but the ICT Team has created a template for schools to use. The template consists of a set of folders, one for each strand of ICT at levels one to five and a set of web pages to access them. Each contains at least one sample of work, levelled and moderated with the next steps clearly defined. All the school needs to do is create its own examples and add them to the template. To acquire the template visit the Cricket Road School (Go to > Visit user > cricket-road.oxon). Select View and Folder Listing, and click cricket-road in the breadcrumb trail to view the root folder of the Cricket Road School. The e-portfolio will be visible in a red learning module folder. Put a tick in the box beside it and select copy. Browse to your own school space by clicking the Home tab, view a folder listing, browse to the root folder and paste. A copy of the portfolio template will belong to your school and can be developed in any way, including changing the look of it.
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Levelling pupil work
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It is useful to have a level for each aspect of ICT for a pupil i.e. Finding things out, Developing ideas and making things happen, Exchanging and sharing information, Reviewing, modifying and evaluating work as it progresses and Breadth of study. Then an overall level can be assessed at the end of each year. All of the ICT Annotation sheets are in the e-portfolio; the relevant parts of the level descriptors for each strand at each level are highlighted on the pages. These will support teachers’ ICT assessment. There will be more information on assessment available from the DfES and Becta with their work on ICT Progressions due in schools soon.
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Preparing work for the e-portfolio
In your e-portfolio work will need to be displayed as far as possible as a set of downloadable documents. Screen shots of any program can be used to help this process. A screen shot is simply a picture of the screen contents at the moment you take the image.
In the e-portfolio there is a template for each strand at each level. Download the appropriate template and take screen shots to add the pupils work to it. There is a document in the e-portfolio explaining how to take screen shots.
Written work such as instructions for a Roamer journey will need to be scanned and added as a picture to the template page, photographs can be added easily. With a video, sound file or presentation it will be best to put the file itself into the appropriate folder so that people can download and look at it, but teachers could annotate the work on the template sheet and name and upload that independently.
So what next?
If you need help to copy the portfolio template to your school web space please ask any of the ICT team to support you. If you need help to level work, moderate work or start to create your ICT e-portfolio please phone to arrange a session 01865 428034.
