OK - so following the activity day a few weeks ago - more assets have been populated and published to the Gateway which is good. I will review the text poll next week, which I have not had time to do because I am very busy at the moment with assessments, revision sessions and marking.
I sent an email to PUPPS participants last week, wanting to pencil in dates and times for inteviews and only two respondents have come back to me! So I will be chasing students via Facebook next week.
I am still waiting for M and M'sind map to be published to the Gateway. M has still not published anything to the Gatway but I have since discovered extenuating circumstances contributing to this ; he still wants to be involved, so I aim to be as flexible as possible.
Review of the mindmaps will be triangulated with the text poll and analysed to determine a few themes. Early discussions with participants indicate that PebblePad is great and the PDA is very useful, but can be problematic.
It is clear that in general participants use the technology with which they are most familar and this seems to be more important to them. Participants will create assets on these technologies and upload them to PebblePad on their laptop or PC. I will be exploring this in the interviews.
I have been creating my owned-portfolio which is nearly finished and I have to say that I found PebblePad to be intuitive. I have used multi-media outputs to create my portfolio and have to say that my husband was quite impressed with it, so I figure that it must be OK.
In terms of the project - The lovely BBB is going to investigate using a former student; Ben Cotton and a lady from industry to judge the webfolios. I am also going to invite Business Centurions and employers from the employer network to come along and showcase the webfolios to them and employers of the PUPPS participants - this is due to happen in May/June - so as usual I have to get my skates on!
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Friday 12 March 2010
PUPPS Activity Evening 9th March 2010
The evening went really, really well. We started off with a text poll in which students described their feelings about the project and whether they felt that they had experienced any value from participating. It is clear that all students agreed that PebblePad is great and has been a really useful tool for creating reflections etc - mixed views about the use of the PDA ranging from brilliant to frustrating.. It is clear that when the technology works it is an invaluable mediating tool, but it causes a lot of problems when not.
The students posted and published some mind maps from the session which are very interested and will be showcased in my webfolio of the project. Webfolio training went well and from the assets populated in PebblePad it is clear that there are going to be some really good webfolios.I intend to showcase the webfolios at the launch for the work based mobile module event, where I hope there will be some business centurions and local businesses who have expressed an interest in being involved in the module, so things are going well..I am still waiting to hear from Dr Jill Taylor about the PDAS but fingers crossed and wood touched that this is going to happen.
On a personal note, I have been invited to interview for a teaching fellow position so I am really made up - I have to prepare a 10 minute demonstration of my approach to supporting student learning so I am going to use my own webfolio, so I am starting that now! Will be good to experience what students will be experiencing!Which is what the project is all about biographical, lifelong learning!
The students posted and published some mind maps from the session which are very interested and will be showcased in my webfolio of the project. Webfolio training went well and from the assets populated in PebblePad it is clear that there are going to be some really good webfolios.I intend to showcase the webfolios at the launch for the work based mobile module event, where I hope there will be some business centurions and local businesses who have expressed an interest in being involved in the module, so things are going well..I am still waiting to hear from Dr Jill Taylor about the PDAS but fingers crossed and wood touched that this is going to happen.
On a personal note, I have been invited to interview for a teaching fellow position so I am really made up - I have to prepare a 10 minute demonstration of my approach to supporting student learning so I am going to use my own webfolio, so I am starting that now! Will be good to experience what students will be experiencing!Which is what the project is all about biographical, lifelong learning!
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