Nick Packard

Developing digital portfolios: investigating how digital portfolios can facilitate pupil talk about learning

The Digital Portfolio Project at Newcastle University aimed over one year (2002/2003) to support teachers in producing, storing and accessing assessment portfolios of learner’s work using information and communications technology (ICT). This paper draws on evidence of pupil views collected as part of 14 teacher‐led case studies. The teachers all approached the task of developing digital portfolios in different ways and the variety of end products was large; however, the common result was the value placed on using the portfolio as a tool for reflection and celebration of children’s learning. As part of the data collection teachers were encouraged to gather pupil views about the digital portfolio learning process. These comments provide an interesting and surprisingly analytical perspective of the research and learning process not commonly considered in the academic community. This paper documents the pupils’ views and uses them to review the strength of the digital portfolio process and the benefits of using it in the primary classroom.

Meeting the standards in primary ICT : a guide to the ITT NC

Introduction: Welcome to your teaching career Section 1: Your ICT skills, knowledge and understanding 1. Auditing your own skills and understanding ICT capability 2. Text, pictures and multimedia 3. Managing and understanding information 4. Communicating with and through ICT 5. What does the research say? Section 2: ICT and teaching in the classroom 6. ICT for literacy and English 7. ICT for numeracy and mathematics 8. ICT for science 9. ICT across the curriculum 10. ICT in the foundation stage 11. ICT and thinking skills Section 3: ICT and your own professional learning 12. Managing your professional responsibilities with ICT 13. Becoming a reflective practitioner 14. Applying for jobs and coping with interviews