With all the summaries that I've posted last month in regards to the learning of my colleagues at the school I realized that I have not posted my own summary. For the past 3 months I've had two groups of students doing e-portfolios on Weebly. The program is simple to use, lets you have 40 accounts for free, and for teachers to assess, instead of gathering up the individual web addresses of each student who creates a eportfolio web site, Weebly lets the teacher control the sites, make it private or not, and change the passwords. See my blog entry on Weebly to understand the Pro's and Con's of the program.
At the end of the school year I asked my Grade 8 students a number of questions in regards to Weebly and doing electronic portfolios for their learning. The following is the results of the 28 students that answered the survey.
I was happy that students realized that reflecting on their learning through the eportfolios helped them learn more and helped them realize that they were learning.
The data below did surprise me. I asked twice for parents to assess their child's learning with the electronic portfolios. From these results it's clear that I need to do a better explanation to parents of the reason for electronic portfolios and what they can do for both the child and the parent in talking about the learning.
I was happy that students realized they were choosing the activities and what they added to their portfolios, giving them ownership of their learning and help them understanding their learning more.
The data below was no surprise. I knew that by reflecting on their learning, they would learn more. What I am hoping for this coming year is more peer assessment, opening up their electronic portfolios to their friends.
I can honestly say that I did not use the blogging section of the electronic portfolio to it's full capacity, I should target a day (Friday would be good) with a reflection question every single time, so students can get use to this and be prepared to come up with their own reflections. Although I am happy with the results of the survey, I could of done more.
Finally, you can see from the data below that the students did not need to spend the entire class to do their portfolios, it ranged from 10 - 30 minutes, depending on what they were working on, and this was not every day, only 1 - 2 days a week. This is manageable in regards to time for any teacher.
The final question was a question of preference that I had asked my class and it was completely different then the response I got from my 1st term class. The 2nd term loved Weebly more then Webnode, whereas the 1st term students like Webnode more then Weebly. The only difference was which web designing site was introduced first to the students. Students liked the 1st web site introduced to them best. In the 2nd term I introduced Weebly to the students first, and here are the results. Interesting to look into more.
I hoped these results helped you as much as they intriged me.
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