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Thinking Outside the Binder:
Online Portfolios for Professional Review
John BarrittAcademic English StudiesLewis & Clark College
Online Portfolios Process = professional development
Cultivate technological literacy
Exposure to new tools for classroom
Getting Started Identify / bridge gaps in tech literacy
Adopt a pedagogical stance that targets “multiliteracies”
Multiliteracies The New London Group (1996)
Literacy includes “negotiating a multiplicity of discourses.”
Take into account “culturally and linguistically diverse and increasingly globalized societies.”
“[T]he proliferation of communications channels and media supports and extends cultural and subcultural diversity.”
Future of EAP Preparing learners for participation in global
discourse communities
Peer networks
“Cultural and subcultural diversity”
Alternatives to western-centered research discourse (e.g. journals)
Documentation Blogs
Videos
Podcasts
VoiceThreads
Discussion Forums
Moodle Pages
PowerPoints
Images
PDFs
Tagging Non-linear organization
Facilitates sharing across global peer networks
Indicate interrelationships
An added layer of meaning
Student Work Public
Portable
Private (password protected)
Connected
Advantages Over Binders Preservation of artifacts in a digital format
Portability
Accessibility
Multiple Intelligences Support your own learning preference
Photos / videos of classroom activities and field trips
Video commentary
Audio commentary
Mindmapping (lesson design)
Workshop presentations
Promotional Materials Accessible
Showcasing use of Web 2.0 tools in classroom
Increase visibility of program
Remembrances of Things Past
The changing face of the technological landscape
The case of Ning
Archiving Artifacts Jing
Screenshots
PDFs
Social Media = New Opportunities
To engage students linguistically
To receive input / produce output
Situate language learning in contexts that are socially meaningful to them
Portfolio 2.0 Opportunities to master Web 2.0 tools
“Communicative competence” for the digital age
Wash over to paper-based colleagues
Exposure to new tools for enhancing & extending the classroom experience
“Hybrid” courses, “blended” learning
References
McKay, S. (2002). Teaching English as an international language: Rethinking goals and approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The New London Group. (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. Harvard Educational Review. 66(1). Retrieved fromhttp://wwwstatic.kern.org/filer/blogWrite44ManilaWebsite/paul/articles/A_Pedagogy_of_Multiliteracies_Designing_Social_Futures.htm
Stevens, V. (2005). Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments. TESL-EJ. 9(2).
Swales, J.M. (1990). Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.