Dear EFL teachers, This week you are going to learn about educational e-portfolios as some of the alternative electronic tools that are used in EFL teaching and learning. Integrated into blogs, the e-portfolios, could motivate students to learn and become independent learners, and might provide learners with opportunities to reinforce their learning skills, self-assessment, and their communication with the world – the biggest EFL teaching issues of the 21st century. Enjoy experimenting while creating wonderful personal and teacher E-portfolios! |
a. What is an E-Portfolio?
b. Why using an E-portfolio for personal and teaching reasons?
c. What are the benefits of an E-Portfolio?
Task 2: It became a tradition for various educational institutions to use different types of online portfolios as an instructional and evaluation tool. a. Scavenge the types of E-portfolios with some relevant examples:
b. Choose 2 examples you liked most and c. post your comments below:
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Task 3. Analyze the materials below and create an assignment for your students which would require them to create an e-portfolio at the end of the academic year. Post the link to your assignment below, as a comment to this blog. a) Read about how to create a portfolio assignment here: “How Do You Create a Portfolio Assignment?” b) Explain to your students the type of portfolio they should create. For example:
c) Establish the structure of the e-portfolio: write about how many sections it should have, what information should be included, how much information should be placed online, etc. See an example here: Final Business English E-Portfolio Assignment. d) Feel free to share these tutorials with your students:
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