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O\u27 Neill, Marie

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CCT College Dublin ARC (Academic Research Collection) Faculty Presentations Faculty Achievement 17-10-2023 Google Sites for ePortfolio Marie O' Neill Tracy Gallagher Follow this and additional works at: https://arc.cct.ie/fac_presentations  Part of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons Recommended Citation O' Neill, Marie and Gallagher, Tracy, "Google Sites for ePortfolio" (2023). Faculty Presentations. 10. https://arc.cct.ie/fac_presentations/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Achievement at ARC (Academic Research Collection). It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Presentations by an authorized administrator of ARC (Academic Research Collection). For more information, please contact debora@cct.ie. Google Sites for E-Portfolio: A Pilot at CCT College DublinMarie O’ Neill EDI OfficerCCT College DublinAbout CCT• Founded by College President Neil Gallagher in 2005. CCT is based in college owned premises at Westmoreland Street.• Offers QQI validated programmes in business and ICT up to and including Level 9 of the NFQ• Blended learning provider status awarded by QQI in 2020. Devolution awarded in 2023.• CCT has passed stage 1 of the AsIAm accreditation process to become an autism friendly college• Member of the Higher Education Colleges Association (HECA)• CCT is a strategic partner of Microsoft IrelandDefinition of E-Portfolio “A typical learning portfolio may include both academic materials and personal profiles and may designate some of its contents as public or private. The learning portfolio, then, becomes more than a product, a simple repository of artefacts; it becomes a process of reflection, of organizing, prioritizing, analysing, and communicating ones work and its value, which may prompt insights and goals” (Corley & Zubizarreta 2012 p.65)"Creating an e-portfolio involves skills essential for 21st century learning – organising and planning material, giving and receiving feedback, reflecting, selecting and arranging content to communicate with a particular audience in the most effective way."  (JISC 2021)Benefits of E-Portfolio✓Assessing learning in a more authentic way✓Making sense of learning and achievements across various parts of the curriculum✓Achieving deeper learning through reflection and dialogue✓Evidencing employability skills and attributes✓Engaging with personal and continuing professional development✓Developing lifelong learning skills   (JISC, 2021)Cited in Farrell, 2020E-portfolio Platforms • Mahara• Digication• Pathbrite• Google Sites  • Wordpress• Blogger• Padlet• Pebblepad• WixAdvantages of Google Sites✓Recommended by e-portfolio and lifelong learning experts✓Free to use✓User-friendly software✓Contains a useful gallery template including an e-portfolio template. ✓Content can be embedded from other sources (Google Docs, Youtube etc.)✓Ownership of the e-portfolio is retained by the owner✓Secure (the owner controls user permissions)✓Google Sites facilitates interactivity. You can collaborate with other editors for example.✓E-Portfolios can also be downloaded into a document formatAim of the Google Sites Pilot at CCTTo promote inclusive assessment approaches as part of an institution wide focus on universal design To promote authentic assessment approaches that promote academic integrity, digital and visual literacy and encourage reflectionEncourage innovation in assessment approaches reducing reliance on traditional assessment approaches such as examsTo gather feedback as part of the e-portfolio pilot process to inform the wider adoption of e-portfolio institution wide.Pilot Lead: Tracy Gallagher. Project Supported by the CCT Centre for Teaching and Learning and Executive Leadership Team.About Tracy:• Business lecturer, CCT College Dublin• MA in Education, Open University• MSc in Tourism Management, Technological University Dublin• BA Hons in Marketing, University of Glamorgan• National Forum Teaching Hero Award 2020/2021• National Forum Digital Badge in Universal Design for Teaching and learning 2021. Tracy’s redesign activity replaced a traditional essay assignment with an e-portfolio using Google Sites.• National Forum Digital Badge on Personal and Professional Digital Capacity 2022Accessing Google Sites• Login into Gmail• Click on the dots in the top right-hand corner• Scroll down to more appsAccessing Google SitesA range of website templates appear including ane-portfolio template. You can also create a new sitefrom scratch.Customise Google Sites TemplatesCustomise Google Sites TemplatesUseful CCT Google Sites Resourceshttps://library.cct.ie/friendly.php?s=e-portfolios/homeRevision of Assignment Brief• During the academic year 2021/2022, the written essay for the Social Media Marketing module on the BA Honours in Business at CCT College Dublin was replaced by an e-portfolio assessment.• Students create a fictional business and an accompanying social media plan. Each student’s learning journey is also captured in their e-portfolio. Students reflect on the project with their peers by presenting on their e-portfolio in class. In upcoming iterations of the assessment, this reflection piece will be formally integrated into the e-portfolio.Google Sites: Websites by CCT StudentsGoogle Sites: E-Portfolio by a CCT StudentCCT Student Feedback: E-Portfolio Versus Essayhttps://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-v9XsXxcO3xjAP3S2uF_2FK3A_3D_3D/✓ 80% of respondents agreed and 20% strongly agreed that “e-portfolio allowed me to record, evaluate and reflect on my learning experience”✓ 60% of respondents agreed and 20% of respondents strongly agreed that “e-portfolio is a more beneficial assessment than exams or a traditional essay”✓ 70% agreed and 20% strongly agreed that “e-portfolio helped me to produce a more effective assignment.”✓ 50% agreed and 30% agreed that “e-portfolio effectively showcased my learning to employers”✓ 50% agreed and 50% strongly agreed that “Google Sites is an effective e-portfolio platform”✓ 100% agreed that “there are benefits to e-portfolio”✓ 70% agreed and 20% strongly agreed that “e-portfolio enhances the learning experience”CCT Student Feedback“Using the e-portfolio helped me to showcase my work in a different way…it would be possible to show the e-portfolio to employers.”“Because it's a different way of showing our business idea. Different from a word document, it allowed us to make the idea more realistic, by adding photos and even videos of our products.”“I think is a great tool to visualize the entire project as a summary of your work. It is easy to navigate, although it could have more features and options…I totally enjoyed it and I'm already using it to create more portfolios of my work life, also personal live. It is very useful in a professional and personal way. Thank you for suggesting.https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-v9XsXxcO3xjAP3S2uF_2FK3A_3D_3D/Tracy observed that student grades improved particularly for students who were less engaged formerly or who struggled with the essay format.The Academic Literature“It was decided that Google was the best option. Not only did it provide students with a way to develop their e-portfolios without HTML knowledge, it also allowed them integrated access to …Google Docs.. elements that would become very handy when we started to teach collaboration and teamwork. The teaching staff also maintained an e-portfolio that was open to the students as an exemplar. The assessment criteria was made clear right from the start and included.” Simatele, 2014 p.869“The features from Googlesites such as adding comments and editing contents provide interactivity among students and teacher. Thus, this reduces the passive role of feedback. In other words, the mechanisms in Googlesites allowed the feedback to be returned to the students instantly. This provides the students the opportunity to use the feedback as a basis for reflection on competence and development. At the same time, the opportunities for sharing could also support on-going dialogues with peers and tutors/lecturer.“(Huey Zher Ng & Hussain 2013, n.p.)Recent DevelopmentsInstitutional resources to support e-portfolio have expanded01E-portfolio using Googlesitesintroduced to CCT’snew MA in International Business.02Support for faculty with Google Sites to be provided via the CCT Centre for Teaching and Learning leveraging pilot feedback03Student exemplars are being shared via CCT’s institutional repository.04Best Practice for E-Portfolio1. Identify the clear purpose of the e-portfolio task 2. Clearly articulate the purpose to the students 3. Provide front loaded tech support to students and staff 4. Scaffold student reflection through the use of prompts 5. Give students support with reflective writing 6. Give example e-portfolio 7. Design a specific rubric for the task(Farrell, 2020)“The opportunity to connect theory and practice through practical assessment, which made clear links to future employment skills, could be both motivating and an important component in reinforcing learning” (QQI, 2023, p.7)QQI and Authentic Assessment ReferencesCorley, C. and Zubizarreta, J. (n.d.). The Power and Utility of Reflective Learning Portfolios in Honors. [online] Available at: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1082249.pdf. [Accessed 1 Oct. 2023]. Farrell (2020), An Introduction to e-Portfolio, delivered as part of the CCT Certificate in Teaching and Learning. Available at: https://arc.cct.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=cert_tl[Accessed 1 Oct. 2023]. Huey Zher Ng and Raja (2013). The use of Googlesites as a formative assessment tool [eportfolio] in higher education. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/cicem.2013.6820157.[Accessed 1 Oct. 2023]. JISC. (2021). Getting started with e-portfolios. Available at: https://beta.jisc.ac.uk/guides/getting-started-with-e-portfolios[Accessed 1 Oct. 2023]. ReferencesO Neill, M. and McCarthy, K. (2021). Participant Engagement with Eportfolio on the PACT Digital Badge: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Methods Analysis. Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 6(1), pp.194–215. https://doi.org/10.22554/ijtel.v6i1.80 [Accessed 2 Oct. 2023]. QQI (2020) The Impact of COVID-19 Modifications to Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Irish Further Education and Training and Higher Education. Available at: https://www.qqi.ie/sites/default/files/2022-04/the-impact-of-covid-19-modifications-to-teaching-learning-and-assessment-in-irish-further-education-and-training-and-higher-education.pdfQQI (2023). QQI Insight on Assessment Learner Perspectives. Available at: https://www.qqi.ie/sites/default/files/2023-09/QQI%20Insight%20on%20Assessment%20-%20Learner%20Perspectives.pdf[Accessed 4 Oct. 2023].ReferencesSimatele, M. (2014). Enhancing the portability of employability skills using e-portfolios. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 39(6), pp.862–874. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2014.953461. [Accessed 4 Oct. 2023].

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