Young and Irish Voices
Gergely and Aoife interview Dr. Deidre Butler.
Dr. Deirdre Butler is senior lecturer in Education at St. Patrick’s College, Ireland. She is responsible for the design and co-ordination of learning programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate students and uses large variety of digital technologies to show the role that technology can play in a learning environment. Deirdre is also very passionate about the use of technology in the classroom setting.
Gergely and Aoife
YMT
Dr Kevin Marshall is the Head of Education in Microsoft Ireland. Kevin is down at the conference today to monitor and see the real life implementations of ePortfolio and see how far it can go in education. Dr Marshall shared his views on ePortfolio and also explained his role in Microsoft. He then spoke about Microsoft’s involvement in EUfolio.
Imad and Caitlin
YMT
Dr. Klaus is an academic staff member at the University of Teacher Education Vienna. He has been involved in ePortfolio since the very beginning but he had to quit since he was moving and he is grateful to see that the project has moved into the international stage. Dr. Klaus is a lecturer in the University of Teacher Education in Vienna and is looking forward to ePortfolio to be used in schools.
Gergely and Aoife
YMT
John Hurley is one of the backroom team of today’s event. John works in H2 Learning which is based in Dublin. He has been involved in EUfolio since the beginning and is very excited to see it all come together. John is a former teacher and is very keen in seeing EUfolio used widely in schools.
Gergely and Aoife
Youth Media Team
Anastasia Economou was one of the speakers on the morning panel on ePortfolios in Education at the EUfolio conference.
Anastasia is part of the EUfolio team in Cyprus. We asked her about her involvement in the making of the teacher material pack. She explained that her team was responsible for designing a lot of the training materials for the project and helped also with the project evaluation. It was interesting to hear how Anastasia and her team went about constructing the resource packs . Anastasia also spoke about the importance of technology and in particular ePortfolio.
Imad and Caitlin
Youth Media Team
Imad and Caitlin Interviewed students from Athy and Ashbourne secondary schools
The students told us about how they use ePortfolio and also technology in their school. They also explained the positives of technology use in school and also learning at home.
Imad and Caitlin
YMT
Hi;
We are here at EUfolio at Dublin Castle – there are people here from all over Europe. We will be interviewing several of the speakers from the event, so stay tuned for those.
The idea behind the EUfolio conference is to provide practical examples, implementation steps and advice on how best to introduce and implement ePortfolios in schools. It is an initiative of the Department of Education and Skills here in Ireland and has been managed by an ICT group called H2 learning.
So…what is an ePortfolio? We aren’t that sure just yet! But basically, it seems an electronic portfolio is a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a student online.
An ePortfolio is an online reflective journal of students’ studies, achievements and success which can be used for evaluation and self-reflection. We are here to find out and to tell you more about this ePortfolio. We are hoping to talk to participants to learn more.
Caitlin , Aoife , Imad and Gergely,
Youth Media Team
The Global Resources in Education And Technology (GREAT) Conference is organised by a group of cool people from Michigan State University each summer while they are based at NUIG in Galway.
This year, YMT has been invited to participate.
So it will be a little different…. in fact VERY different! 🙂
This year we introduced a Youth Media Team to the conference for the first time. Here they are in their distinctive red polos…. and also the ‘less-young’ mentors who really enjoyed working with this wonderful group of young tech-users; Joe Dale, Bernie Goldbach and myself. We all learnt from the experience.
Conor Galvin
Youth Media Team Cat-herder… 🙂