Unit 1E Education

Introduction: Starting an ePortfolio

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help you achieve Course Learning Outcomes: 2, 5, 6 and 7.
 Demonstrate information and digital literacy skills by locating, analysing, and evaluating
learning resources including academic journals, case study analyses, research reports, and
online media articles.
 Communicate effectively with peers and university staff on subjects of an academic and non-
academic nature either face-to-face or using a range of digital media including email and
discussion board.
 Demonstrate a reflective and self-directed approach to the learning process by proactively
soliciting and incorporating feedback, creating appropriate personal learning goals, and
pursuing these goals independently outside of the classroom.
 Demonstrate critical thinking skills by analysing ideas, evaluating alternative views, making
criterion-based judgments, and searching for well-informed answers to self-generated
questions.

In this lesson learners will:

 Understand the requirements of the ePortfolio
 Follow instructions to set up an ePortfolio as a blog site on Moodle
 Add your first content to your ePortfolio

Learners should be able to:

 Create targeted and self-directed language learning goals, pursue these goals outside of the
class and solicit and incorporate feedback (self-directed & reflective approach)

Unit 1E | FSAE
Starting an ePortfolio
Task 1:

Margaret Atwood is one of the world’s most famous authors with novels such as ‘The
Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘The Robber Bride’.

She also created a comic about her first days at university:

On the next page, draw yourself in a cartoon about your experiences starting on the Standard
course and add captions:

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Portrait of a _________________________ as a young __________________

This will be the first entry to your ePortfolio.

What is an ePortfolio?

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An ePortfolio is an evolving digital collection of artefacts showing your personal study journey.
Here you can store images, videos and your own ideas to provide evidence of how your
experiences of learning English develops throughout the term.

During classes over the term we will add content based on classroom activities.

The next part of the lesson will help you set up a Moodle ePortfolio

Task: 2

1. To start go to the course Moodle ePortfolio:

2. Choose ‘New Blog Post’.

3. Create a title in the ‘Title’ box – ‘Portrait of a _______ as a young ________’

4. The best way to upload your image as a photo is to choose ‘Insert or edit image.’

If you don’t like your drawing you can replace it with photos with captions, or even a short
video telling the story from your cartoon.

6. To complete your post, remember to click ‘Add post’:

After this lesson, you should …

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  Start your ePortfolio by uploading an episode to your ePortfolio, either as a cartoon,
captioned photo or video.

 Look at the images that are uploaded by your classmates. You can add a helpful
comment by choosing ‘Add your comment’. A new window will open up in which you
can type your message. You can save your message to their blog by clicking ‘Add your
comment.’

Review

 What skills did I learn in this lesson?

 What didn’t I understand in this lesson?

 What should I do about it?

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