3 June 2010
I was pleased to meet Nuddy today to talk about my thoughts and ideas around developing my ePortfolio.
Traditional assessment looked to the end product without taking into consideration how one got there, perhaps it was all other peoples ideas and words whereas constructive learning deems the process more important than the end product because an idea one may have had at the beginning of the process will begin to change as more information and knowledge is added to understand the subject.
Constructivisim is making one’s own meaning from information and knowledge acquired.
Nuddy’s comparison of Gramsci to Friere gave me food for thought, perhaps Gramsci might not be so boring as I imagined. Just because I always gave up when things got to difficult to comprehend in the past doesn’t mean it would be in the future or now. I usually gave up too easily when I didn’t understand.
Nuddy suggested I could take a part in team teaching in a class with him to some students at an appropriate level. My first thought was, wow, that would be a great experience but then immediately wondered if I would be up to it. And why not?. That will be great.
Even though it might be challenging for me to be in a class and presenting something to a group of students with whom I may feel a little intimidated (this is why I used to think I would love to teach children) it would be a great opportunity which I wouldn’t want to miss, and so thank Nuddy for the offer.

Here is are some great links, the first to Literacy Maths for practice. The second for an example of an eportfolio and the last to more samples. The initial link was from Nigels wiki comment;