ePortfolios

Tom Lee
//**Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College, North Sydney**//

Tom Lee is currently the ICT Integration Projects Manager at Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College in North Sydney. In his current role, Tom's focus is providing professional learning opportunities and support for staff as well as providing new learning experiences with technology for students. Having been in education for over 13 years as a music teacher, head of department and now ICT Integrator, Tom has had extensive experience developing and implementing teaching and learning programmes into the classroom. Tom is also an Apple Distinguished Educator and has particular interests in multimedia, instructional and graphic design, digital portfolios and online learning. media type="custom" key="21080166" The concept of a digital portfolio has existed for many years in terms of document and file storage. However, with technology advancing at such a rapid pace, there is now a greater demand for technology to be portable, accessible and cloud based. This is reinforced by the fact that our students are very much considered the 'net-generation' with a desire to share, follow and comment in an online environment. ePortfolios also allow for students to showcase their creativity and innovation that extends beyond the class assessment or project. There are great tools out there and with Monte having a Moodle-based LMS, Mahara was a logical choice.
 * // Celebrating creativity and innovation beyond the pass mark //**

Monte has adopted the use of Mahara as a platform for digital portfolios (ePortfolios) for the last 18 months. Our Year 10 students have just completed a nine-month Personal Project (IB MYP) and have used Mahara to collate their files, resources and journal reflections as part of their project. Other faculties like PDHPE, Science and Music have also begun making use of Mahara. In addition, we've also started to trial the integration of the PortfolioUp! app with our Mahara system which allows students and staff who have an iOS device to upload photos and videos directly from their iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.



**David Lee**
//**Kinross Wolaroi School**//

David Lee is currently the ICT Coordinator at the Kinross Wolaroi School. His role is to support staff from K-12 in their endeavour to integrate technology into their teaching practice. David is a Mathematics teacher and has held the ICT Coordinators position for the past 3 years. Kinross is currently implementing a Learning Management System (RM Learning Platform) and a 1-1 iPad program for Years 5/6/7 and his role is to support staff through the implementation of these initiatives. David is also working through a Masters of ICT Integration (CSU) and enjoys driving buses for a local company in his spare time.

Adobe Acrobat Pro has a very useful portfolio feature. Our senior Biology students are required to create a portfolio of media articles relating to their course. Traditionally this has been a "pen and paper" exercise, however in 2013 we are going to trial using Acrobat Pro. If you are interested in learning more then this series of Adobe videos may be useful. A copy of my Photoshop portfolio is available here or here (107MB download).