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Managing Personal Development Planning using Google Apps for Education Robin Trangmar Head of Education & Training, Coleg Llandrillo Dr. Claire Lloyd Lecturer in Education & Training, Coleg Llandrillo
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Managing Personal Development Planning using Google Apps for

EducationRobin Trangmar

Head of Education & Training, Coleg Llandrillo

Dr. Claire Lloyd Lecturer in Education & Training, Coleg Llandrillo

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Overview iPDP (Individual Personal Development Plan)

being developed on the Teacher Education courses at Coleg Llandrillo. The iPDP uses Google Sites, Drive and Groups to

support trainee teachers and track and manage assessment artefacts during their course

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Portfolio Issues Just so much paper Compiled at the end of the year Didn’t really contribute to any development Retained by the student, so if they didn’t have it

no-one could see what they were doing Lost hand-outs, resources, course forms, marked

assessment work Staff found it hard to track student progress Students found it easy to hide

‘I’ve left it at home’ … Not attending tutorials … and thus not producing

work

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Previous efforts … PebblePad

Ran a trial in 2007 Cost implications

Mahara + Moodle Too steep a learning curve Portability issues Institutional hosting issues

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Moodle GLLM still running Moodle 1.9 … No linkage with Mahara Moodle unpopular with students Moodle not really a Web 2.0 platform Anything created in Moodle would be

Messy Not portable

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What we wanted (1) To have a resource that was at the heart of the

trainee teacher’s progress Something that was transparent and available to

the trainee teacher, the workplace mentor, and any of the teacher educators

Something that was updatable by all parties and in one common ‘space’

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What we wanted (2) Storage: somewhere for

staff to store course documents, research papers etc for student access

students to store assessed work students to have a personal storage space that

staff can access One single place for

Course resources and teaching materials Student work

Students to have greater engagement with cloud-based resources so they were aware of possibilities for their own students

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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.

(A.A. Milne 1926; 15)Source: Milne, A.A., 1926 The World of Pooh. London; Methuen. Image: Pete Rollins http://peterrollins.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/pooh_stairs.jpeg

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The inspiration Cheryl Reynolds – Senior Lecturer at

Huddersfield University on the PGCE programmes Developed and tested an iPDP using a

Google Site from which her students created a replica

She shared this with us We took the model, mapped it to our

own course requirements, and added a few tweaks

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Google Apps for Education (GAfE) Following the 2012 merger, GLLM moved the

email system to Google Apps for Education (GAfE)

This presented within the GLLM domain Gmail Calendars Sites Drive Groups … and recently Google Plus and Google Hangouts

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Creating the iPDP We created one Google Site and set it up as a

Template, which was then shared with students They created a copy We managed the Site permissions so that tutors

have editing rights We provided a half-day’s training and helped the

students to create and customise their iPDP

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The iPDP isn’t … An ePortfolio

“… a purposeful collection of information and digital artefacts that demonstrates development or evidences learning outcomes, skills or competencies. The process of producing an ePortfolio (writing, typing, recording etc.) usually requires the synthesis of ideas, reflection on achievements, self-awareness and forward planning; with the potential for educational, developmental or other benefits.”

(Cotterill 2007) … but it could be

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Main Points Each part of the course has its own area, description

of assessment tasks, access to relevant forms, a place for uploading personal completed work

Simple, one / two-click access Journals Observations, evaluations Assignments Research document support

Courseware Links to Google Site for each module of study

Discussion area - Google Group (weak point) Assignment upload - Google Group (weak point)

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Main AreasAssessment Area

Personal Workspace

Course Admin AreaHandbooks, Video help files, Document

Templates

Taught Modules

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Personal storage space Students can add own research, notes, drafts etc Tutors can add additional reading to support

learning

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Use of Drive No template documents are stored in the iPDP

Site All templates are located in folders in the Google

Drive shared folder The shared folder is inserted (‘linked’) into the

iPDP Site page, and any updates to files in the Google Drive shared folder occur automagically

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Back End

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Course Modules

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iTutor Central dashboard Site for staff to access

resources

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Progress Quick uptake - ‘intuitive’ User friendly The ability to reverse disasters is very useful … Students prefer it to Moodle (!) Several students have developed Sites for their

own students Some students are doing their

tutorials via Google Hangoutsreducing the need to travel

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Limitations Gmail filters to redirect student emails Submitting assessment work via a Group Can’t track activity / engagement with resources

on the module Sites A few students find the page editing process

challenging Initial inability for students to export the iPDP

after the course ends (GAfE domain limitations) Found a work-around through using a standard

Gmail account

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Short and Long Term Evaluation

Initial anecdotal feedback from students Developing the original template as tutors

experience problems Investigating why the current cohort of students

are using the iPDP effectively Use of TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical and

Content Knowledge) survey to benchmark skills End of year review Sharing findings with Cheryl Reynolds

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Contact details Robin Trangmar

[email protected] @yrathro Presentation on SlideShare at

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References Cotterill, SJ (2007). What is an ePortfolio?

ePortfolios 2007, Maastricht http://www.eportfolios.ac.uk/definition accessed 12 December 2013

Koehler, M. J., & Mishra, P. (2005). What happens when teachers design educational technology? The development of technological pedagogical content knowledge. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 32(2), 131-152

Milne, A. A., 1926. The World of Pooh. London; Methuen.


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