Helen Barrett's Frequently Asked Questios about E-Portfolios

• Working Portfolio (process, document learning) vs. presentation portfolio (product, learning outcomes) 
• Purpose of portfolio
• Blogging as Portfolio, Learning tool, professional development tool

Sites and Lists to Check Out
Watch this Screencast Intro, and this screencast How To
Then take  about 30 minutes to check out the different sites, subscribing to the ones that interest you.

• Aniya's The English Teacher
• Larry Ferlazzo's EFL Edublog
• KinderKids
• Mr. Horne's ESL Class Blog
• International Edubloggers Directory of ESL  & EFL blogs
• Lexiophiles list of Top 100 Language blogs
• EFL Blog List
• Support Blogging List of School Blogging
• Blogging4Educators Team
• EFLClassroom Ning
• Carla's Class Pageflake

Additional Readings (not during class)

• Blogging in the Language Classroom: It Doesn't "Simply Happen"
• A blog as a Tool for Reflection for English Language Learners
• Abdullah's Blogging: A Generation 1.5 Student Enters teh Blogospher

Google yourself.(it helps to use quotes like "Jeff Lebow" and you might need to use additonal terms to narrow the search.  Find as many links as possible about you.

We will break into two groups again and record our conversations.  Take turns answering each question before moving to the next question.

Discussion Questions

• What did you find when you googled yourself.  What would you like people to find (or not) when the search for you online?
• What kind of website or blog would you like to have in 5 years?
• Which blogs most impressed you? Why?  (They can be  personal sites,  class blogs, students blogs or any other kind.)
• What do you thinik are the greatest challenges and potential benefits of blogging - personally and as a teaching/learning tool?