Creating opportunities through ePortfolios
Story from Felicia Zhang
Wanting people to know your work on Mahara? This was how I did it. I went to a conference in Vietnam recently which was for 3 days. Throughout the conference I networked with a few people but of course missed quite a few too.
On the day of my departure from Hanoi, I shared a bus trip of one hour in length with a professor from Hong Kong’s Institute of Education and found that we shared the same academic interests and were both passionate about what we do. I then produced my high tech QR business card (see below) and told him that behind my QR code is my CV on Mahara.
I came back to Australia a day later and the following day, the same Professor sent me a conference announcement in Suzhou, China and within 3 hours, I got invited to a key note address in China for that conference. I can only say QR code and my CV on Mahara have been the best advertising tool for my career this year. You can try out the QR code on this page to see my CV or do the old fashion way by clicking on this link:
http://learnonline.canberra.edu.au/portfolio/view/view.php?t=Inpek4fw39PLKWEDCoY7
Have fun reading!
Here is a picture of the business card from the story, download a QR reader for your mobile device, and then scan the QR code with your QR reader.
Papers
Personal theory and reflection in a professional practice portfolio
Abstract: Portfolios are widely used in the assessment of professional learning. Although claims are made that portfolios promote reflection, the nature of such reflection and the mechanisms that promote it in the portfolio process are not well understood. A four-year action research project investigated a professional practice portfolio for high stakes assessment in a post-graduate programme for special education resource teachers (RTs) that was preparing them for a paradigmatically different role. This paper focuses on the requirement to submit a personal theory (PT) statement in the portfolio. Although tension between the summative and formative purposes of the portfolio was evident for some RTs, a more comprehensive understanding of reflection was evident and many RTs reported that articulating their PT (often for the first time in their career) impacted positively on their ability to reflect on practice.