E-portfolios – the final chapter

Well, the ESCalate ITE conference was as close to getting stressed as I’ve been for a while. The night before as I was finishing the presentation (Using OpenOffice Impress) the network argued with something and locked the presentation down.  I didn’t realise this until I was about 90 minutes to go as I couldn’t open the presentation which was there, but wasn’t. Yes, I know I sound like a student – but instead of going into victim mode I sorted it by starting afresh. As I’m getting the workshop ready someone walked past me and I looked up to see Julie Hughes – the PebblePad champion from Wolverhampton. Despite my pleading she wouldn’t go away, and I knew there was no way to bluff my way out of this one.

In the end, it was a really useful session, but interesting to see how many people demonstrate e-portfolios, use and share resources, and what system they prefer.

You can download a copy from here: http://yrathro.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/epf2009_findings_all.pdf

ESCalate ITE Conference Friday 15 May 2009

OMG – three days to go …

For some foolish reason I thought of having a go at getting a conference paper accepted.  At the time this was based on the premise that there wasn’t a cat in hell’s chance of getting anything accepted. There was probably some element of bravado associated with an over-indulgence of Vin Coch. However the bluffer was outbluffed and my proposal to provide a workshop was accepted. At this stage the project was still ongoing, there was some nervousness about whether anything would actually happen. Smoke and mirrors was one way of looking at it.

Anyhow. The paper is written, the poster designed and waiting for me at Bangor, and I’m trying to provide a creative workshop. Maybe I could use TwitterCamp to get audience feedback.

Assuming I get an audience that is….