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The presentation discusses how you can encourage creativity in portfolio work by assessing it. I do this at Lillebaelt Academy of Professional Higher Education where I teach Multimedia Design Students.This is the presentation I made at the ePIC 2011 conference in London. ePIC is a conference on e-portfolios and identity - an area which interests me enormously.
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Format assessment stimulates creativity
How to appreciate and assess non-verbal or visual reflection in e-portfolios
ePIC 2011, London, Lise Agerbæk
ePIC 2011, London, Lise Agerbæk
Lise Agerbæk• Assistant lecturer at University of Southern
Denmark, Odense, Denmark• Associated lecturer at Lillebælt Academy of
Professional Higher Education• Author of ”Portfolio Practice”
and contributor to ”Portfolio Issues” – both unfortunately in Danish
• Can both be bought here, should you feel so inclined
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Agenda• The portfolios at Multimedia Designer
Education at Lillebælt Academy• A small philosophical detour on the nature of
the portfolio• Does reflection have to be based on words?• Ways of scaffolding non-verbal portfolio
content through assessment• A few reactions from students, teachers and
management
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E-portfolio at the Multimedia Designer Programme• Since september 2003 every student have
created their own portfolio integrated into the curriculum
• In total 896 portfolios• We use a rubric to evaluate them at the
end of every semester
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Examples of 4 portfolios
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Obviously very different
But they share a predertermined structure- Or what we know as information architecture
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No portfolio tool
• We did use a CMS created for this till 2009
• But now we ask the students to create their portfolios from scratch as websites
• Being multimedia students they have to show this competence
• But we stipulate the structure, and describe a mandatory content.
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But how to assess this?
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Allow me a philosopical
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Lars QvortrupThe purpose of the portfolio is not (only)self observationThe communicated reflections transcends the privatness
How so?
Support system• “E-portfolio is a support system for the
learning context, the purpose of which is to give students and teachers an extra space for reflection and communication”
• Qvortrup, Lars (2006), Knowledge, Education and Learning – E-learning in the Knowledge Society, Samfundslitteratur Press
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There is always someone else present• The students (through the portfolio) interprets
him/herself in dialog with an audience• This dialog can be silent and is often not directed at
an outspoken audience• But as soon as you communicate you leave the
privatness of self observation
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Ricoeur• The experience as
experienced, as lived, remains private, but its sense, its meaning, becomes public.
• Communication in this way is the overcoming of the radical non-communicatility of the lived ecperience as lived
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Do we only communicate in words?Kress and van Leuwen in the 1996 book Reading Images disagrees – and argues that using images is a meaningfull practice – that is open for interpretation as much, if not in the same way as words.
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Our students are visually eloquent. Maybe as the first generation they
express themselves visually on a daily basis
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Extension of the rubric
2 out of 9 criteria in the rubric
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This one is not expressing anything in relation to the curriculum.And the design is traditionel – interaction banal
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This one on the other hand expresses the sketching process – and the interaction (green post-it in the top) is innovative
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This one on lets the eye of the figure create a playfull univers – a comment on that we are learning students to ”see”
So not just a matter of taste
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Reaction to the new rubric
• Qualitative interviews with 12 students• And 4 staff members• 2 managers
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What do the students think?
Generally they are positive”We have to learn to use relevant pictures anyway, once we get our own clients”
But some feel a little intimidated”Some of the other students are much better visually than me”
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What do the teachers think
Also mostly positive reactions”My students have gotten much more creative, when it is asked of them to be more visually precise, and innovative in user interaction. They compete in this”
Some grumbling though”It is hard to have to justify your gut feeling to the students”
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What does management think
On a positive note”I am proud when I hear students speak positively about their experience of the study. They always mention the portfolio”
On a more hesitant note”I have yet to see the result in employability numbers or in retention rates”
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Thank you
• [email protected]• Portfolio:
http://www.multimediedesigner.ots.dk/users/Lise%20Agerbaek
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