J. Ouellette | UBC-MET | ePortfolio
Course WordPress Site
ETEC 565A | ARTIFACT ONE
Another reason that I wish I took this course sooner is that it taught me the importance of documenting my own learning and reflecting in the moment. It's something I do often in the classroom, yet something I partially overlooked in this program. Luckily, in most courses, I was rather diligent in keeping everything in Evernote and/or Google Drive. However, not all of this documentation reflected on the process. I wish every course made it mandatory that you create a WordPress site (UBC gives its students hosted sites) to document and reflect on learning like this one. As Moon (2001) posits, "[r]eflection has a role in the deeper approaches to learning" (p. 6).
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The WordPress site below, illustrates my growth and reflection on the learning activities in ETEC 565a. It serves as an excellent example of a permanent digital artifact, one rich in media, that I can share with a global audience of my choosing.
(Ouellette, J., 2016d)
Some of the ways that I get students to reflect on learning is through posts on the class WordPress blog via EasyBlog, student portfolio pieces, video or audio recorded conferences, their personal Evernote folders, and exit tickets.
As mentioned in my ETEC 532 E-Portfolio artifact, China's Great Firewall (GFW) does limit the digital media options we can use at my current school. Next year, we are moving to a school-wide Microsoft Office 365 suite roll-out. I'm optimistic that this may open up more options for a "one medium fits all approach" digital repository documenting the "journey" of learning for our students. One that, ideally, supports lifetime ownership of digital work and reflections for the learner.
J. Ouellette | UBC-MET | ePortfolio