Edited by Deborah Judah, Tuesday, 26 Oct 2010, 15:15
The task to work together to identify drivers of eportfolio around the world worked fairly well and we able to produce a template that we were all happy with. I started of the communication for our group and the board and tried to keep the group on task. Another group member developed a document on Google Docs. This was a suitable medium to use as it was easy to work on collaboratively and could be accessed online.
I felt that is was difficult to gauge whether everyone had the same understanding of the task as we did not have an initial discussion to clarify this. I jumped in and offered to read the first 3 texts. Then throughout the task I tried to pull the group together and clarify thoughts. There was some response from a couple of individuals and I was mindful not to be too bossy and also mindful that on this type of course everyone is working at different times. However I feel the task would have been more collaborative if there had been some discussion about the papers rather than each person just putting in the results. Looking back on the discussion board and the Google Doc I can see that I have been at fault doing this as well as others in the group. Because of this I did not feel I had a full picture of the drivers for eportfolios worldwide and therefore I read all the core texts for myself.
Using the framework for Personal Developmentto assist my reflection I believe I have worked mainly within the competences of communication and research and partly in the practice and technology related competences.
In communication I have shown skills, proactivity and reflection. I worked proactively by starting the conversation on the discussion board and continuing throughout the task to communicate my ideas with the group. On reflection I feel I may have more sucessful by suggesting the group discuss our understanding of the task and agree goals at the beginning. I think my contributons to the discussion board and the Google Doc show proactivity and these can be seen viw the links below.
In research I have shown skills in reading academic papers by completing the reading list, making sense of the information and being able to decide which is the salient information. This also show my ability to critique.
For the practice related competences I have shown knowledge of use of eportfolios in Higher Education by analysing and presenting a description of a case study.
For the technology based competences I have shown the skill iln using Google Docs.
Core activity 2.2 Reflection
The task to work together to identify drivers of eportfolio around the world worked fairly well and we able to produce a template that we were all happy with. I started of the communication for our group and the board and tried to keep the group on task. Another group member developed a document on Google Docs. This was a suitable medium to use as it was easy to work on collaboratively and could be accessed online.
I felt that is was difficult to gauge whether everyone had the same understanding of the task as we did not have an initial discussion to clarify this. I jumped in and offered to read the first 3 texts. Then throughout the task I tried to pull the group together and clarify thoughts. There was some response from a couple of individuals and I was mindful not to be too bossy and also mindful that on this type of course everyone is working at different times. However I feel the task would have been more collaborative if there had been some discussion about the papers rather than each person just putting in the results. Looking back on the discussion board and the Google Doc I can see that I have been at fault doing this as well as others in the group. Because of this I did not feel I had a full picture of the drivers for eportfolios worldwide and therefore I read all the core texts for myself.
Using the framework for Personal Developmentto assist my reflection I believe I have worked mainly within the competences of communication and research and partly in the practice and technology related competences.
In communication I have shown skills, proactivity and reflection. I worked proactively by starting the conversation on the discussion board and continuing throughout the task to communicate my ideas with the group. On reflection I feel I may have more sucessful by suggesting the group discuss our understanding of the task and agree goals at the beginning. I think my contributons to the discussion board and the Google Doc show proactivity and these can be seen viw the links below.
In research I have shown skills in reading academic papers by completing the reading list, making sense of the information and being able to decide which is the salient information. This also show my ability to critique.
For the practice related competences I have shown knowledge of use of eportfolios in Higher Education by analysing and presenting a description of a case study.
For the technology based competences I have shown the skill iln using Google Docs.
http://www.tinyurls.co.uk/I14833 Collaborative work
http://www.tinyurls.co.uk/K14835 Discussion Board