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My-iPortfolioMy-iPortfolio promotes excellence. It is a modern digital authoring tool designed to meet the needs of learners, education providers, and employers. It is a professional communication tool for a modern college to deploy with its local or international audience. Aims Its primary purpose is to enable users, students and tutors, to assemble, modify, and publish a modern, multi-media portfolio. My-iPortfolio gives readers a more comprehensive, in-depth information, and perspective on an actual student and their achievement, than any paper-based system can possibly do. It is really a dynamic e-book. Its secondary purpose is to provide more effective and efficient ways of presenting and monitoring student personal performance and work in progress, across a whole college or course. Human Resources and Marketing departments can deploy My-iPortfolio as a key communication tool. Functionality Importantly, the student owns My-iPortfolio. An individual, department, or indeed a college can customise its electronic pages to suit their needs. My-iPortfolio is easy to use. It provides a range of page templates for users to easily create their personal e-book and start using very quickly. It employs one click authoring tools. All a student has to know is how to select a Windows file in a folder to be able to use My-iPortfolio. Importantly, My-iPortfolio is able to store Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets, and databases as evidence files easily accessed from a published page. A My-iPortfolio page can be designed by the student to include:
A page can also provide direct links to other resource sites.
My-iPortfolio can operate from a college server. Permissions can easily be granted for stakeholders to access an individual's My-iPortfolio, whether they are a personal tutor, parent, or stakeholder. All a student needs when authoring My-iPortfolio is access to the Internet. Completed portfolios can be published to secure web sites or published on a DVD. My-iPortfolio can be pre-populated for a cohort of users with information from a college Management Information System, enabling students to be presented with their own copy of My-iPortfolio on enrolment. Ease of use is a key advantage of the authoring tool, but staff training is provided, where required. Applications The content of My-iPortfolio can be designed around the academic or vocational course a student is studying. Pages can be assigned to an AS subject for example. Students can write, talk about, and present their work for a specific audience. It can be used to simply showcase the best work a student has achieved. In authoring mode, My-iPortfolio is designed for use in student/staff progress reviews. Students, subject and personal tutors can record comments in audio and/or text format about learning in progress. These comments are used later in Publish mode as assessment evidence accompanying the actual piece of work stored, and described, in My-iPortfolio. The facility to use audio commentary to enhance or replace text in the e-book where desired is a feature that Support Services for students with learning difficulties should find particularly attractive to use. My-iPortfolio is designed to enable students to capture enrichment activities they participate in that contribute so much to college life and individual development. The video, graphics, and audio functionality make it an ideal vehicle for effectively communicating about visits, work placements, events and social activities enjoyed by students that serve to inform readers so much about the whole person. Together with the Personal Statement page feature of the e-book, My-iPortfolio can readily be used as an enhanced CV or in application for employment or further study. Internally it can help a wide range of staff get to know a student better and faster. It can be used to assess and record student progress and to provide formative and summative assessment for assignments, tasks, or projects. It can become a vehicle for better organisation and repository for reporting across a college. Wider Community My-iPortfolio is a professional tool to support all learning and teaching across a college. Its deployment is determined by the vision, policy, and needs of managers. In addition to deployment to support the 16-19 curriculum it can inform employers involved in Employment for Jobs schemes or provide powerful feedback for Train to Gain participants. As an e-book, it can be used for College Marketing purposes at programme or macro level. It also is useful in the recruitment process where applicants can submit their portfolio prior to interview. Human Resource departments can use My-iPortfolio in annual reviews and for staff development and team building activities. My-iPortfolio is an ideal tool to use for Open Days. Departments can distribute their own professional looking e-books to potential students and the public, containing witness testimony and in-depth information about courses in action. These presentations can be published on the College website. Terms and conditions My-iPortfolio is available on a site licence and user licence basis. Certain terms and conditions are applicable where use is restricted to particular students. The benefits of economies of scale in pricing are clear where there is a whole College site licence purchased. Contact Londonlearning for more information.
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