Posted on

Interview with Dr. Deirdre Butler

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.

Butler_Deirdre

Gergely and Aoife

YMT

Posted on

Interview with Dr Kevin Marshall

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.

52915805-F90A-4758-A782-FDFBA28824E3-15647-000020F2544632D5

Imad and Caitlin

YMT

Posted on

Interview with Dr. Klaus Himpsl Guterman

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

Posted on

Interview with John Hurley

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.

IMG_0513

Gergely and Aoife

Youth Media Team

 

Posted on

Interview with Anastasia Economou

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.

IMG_0511

Imad and Caitlin

Youth Media Team

 

Posted on

Interview with Students from Participating Schools

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.

IMG_0509IMG_0187

 

 

Imad and Caitlin

YMT

Posted on

Interview with Professor Klenowski

The EUfolio conference opening keynote was given by Prof. Val Klenowski who is Professor of Education at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. She has also worked at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and at the Institute of Education, University of London. Prof Klenowski has also been an academic advisor to the Director General of Education Queensland and is currently engaged in research with the Queensland Educational Leadership Institute (QELI).
When we interviewed her, Professor Klenowski spoke about the ideas in her keynote and also her experience and views on ePortfolios generally.  She also spoke about her work and research and gave us an insight into her books on assessment and portfolios and how technology has allowed us to improve learning and education . The professor also explained how ePortfolios  stimulate and create enthusiasm in students and why it’s vital to introduce technology to education.

IMG_0180
Imad and Caitlin
YMT