We have had a similar experience at Bedfordshire, Shelley. We switched
to PebblePad just over a year ago. Whatever technical platform you use,
i think it's the relevance of the critical prompts and enabling tools
you build into the reflective practice and action plans for students
that make PDP engaging. We take the view here that these approaches need
to be an accredited and preferably assessed part of the curriculum
(still 'work in progress'). 

Arti

Arti Kumar
CETL Associate Director and National Teaching Fellow

>>> Shelley Wolfson <[log in to unmask]> 17/11/2009 17:20 >>>
BB is terrible for ePortfolios. Have used it for the past 2 years and
many students choose to build their portfolio outside BB. It is clunky,
it formats pages the way it thinks they should be formatted etc. and
most of the students feel it is inadequate. That's my two penneth!

Shelley Wolfson
Departmental Subject Leader
School of Computing and Engineering
The University of Huddersfield
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Hello ladies

I use Blackboard currently, but not sure I can share any good
practice,
as I am still experimenting,  however would be interested in whether
you
have used e-portfolios?

I won't be able to attend the Manchester conference but would be very
interested in seeing your resource if at all possible.

Thank you

Laura Locke
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Hello Carina

I'm days away from launching a resource for students through
Blackboard
which I am demonstrating at the PDP conference in Manchester next week
if you are going? Might also be able to help with a short term demo
account if you would like.
Alison

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Hi everyone,

Portsmouth is currently looking into a revamp of the ways in which PDP
is offered to students and supported throughout the university. At
present we are pretty much locked into using WebCT Vista but in order
to
make the most of what we do have and capitalise on this opportunity to
change the way it works, I was wondering if anyone is using
(successfully if possible, but not exclusively) Blackboard for PDP. I
would be very interested to hear what works, what doesn't, what you've
added or taken away and how staff are supported in its use. Also, if
there would be any possibility of having access to a demo account then
that would be very helpful indeed.

Thanks very much for your help,

Carina

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