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Why use an ePortfolio?

Using an ePortfolio gives you more responsibility and control over your learning and professional development, making it an excellent tool for lifelong learning. It can also help you:

  • make and keep records to build confidence and a sense of progress;
  • make connections between different aspects of your life, including both formal and informal learning;
  • enhance your communication and organisational skills;
  • regularly review and reflect on your learning and personal development;
  • build skills in personal and professional planning;
  • foster a strong self-knowledge that will help you prepare for job applications and interviews.

Advice for Academic staff - Where can I find out more?

The ePortfolio help site has been designed as a dynamic website that will be regularly updated to provide overall guidance, 'how to' help (including online videos, worksheets and an online, searchable help system) and tips and hints on various aspects of the portfolios process, including planning, reflecting, career development and presenting your 'story' to your desired audience.

You can also find out more about ePortfolios and personal learning through the ePortfolio site on CSU Interact. To join:

  1. Go to www.interact.csu.edu.au
  2. Log in using your usual CSU username and password.
  3. Click on the 'My Workspace' tab.
  4. Click on 'Membership' in the left hand navigation bar.
  5. Click on 'Joinable sites' and
  6. Locate 'ePortfolios' among the list that appears, and click on 'join'.

You should now have access to the ePortfolio site, where you can find further news and resources related to ePortfolios and personal learning.

 

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The PebblePad Blog - tips and tricks for extending its use beyond the basic

Your ePortfolio is your private space which you can use for managing your own learning and development, and for sharing and collaborating with others. Use it to create and gather your ideas, evidence, reflections and feedback from your various learning experiences, both here at CSU as well as from other areas of your life. You can then develop one or more ePortfolio presentations to demonstrate your learning and abilities.


Learn more about running PebblePad on your iPhone

With Pebble Mobile you can:

  • View the last 50 assets you created
  • View any assets tagged with 'mobile'
  • Add new thoughts to your asset store
  • Upload images from your image library
  • Upload images from the IPhone's camera
  • Post both thoughts and images directly to a PebblePad blog
    (Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.)

This short video explains more fully what an ePortfolio is and how it can be useful to you - as a student, an academic, a researcher...or any professional interested in managing their own learning and development.

PebblePad homepage You might like to have a browse through and perhaps share with your academics.  The following two sections are particularly relevant.
Enjoy
Miriam

Potential user - I'd like to use PebblePad to support my >teaching

Resources>PebblePad in practice>exemplars presents a showcase of videos, including CSU's Sandra Stewart speaking about her experiences as a mature-aged student

Advice for Students