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Chan Sook - The story of an ePortfolio (scenario)
Image source by moodsourcephotography There is a mindmap showing
the ePortfolio design that accompanies this scenario - theoriginal
is accessible in Mindmeister (
http://www.mindmeister.com/25663129/chan-sook-learner-eportfolio ).
Chan Sook lives in Auckland, New Zealand, is twenty-years-old, and
is enrolled on the The
Bachelor of Business (Accountancy) at Unitec New Zealand. She
would like to pursue acareer in accountancy, initially with a large
company either in New Zealand or Australia, andlater she has the
ambition of setting up her own accountancy firm. She is finding
some of the course at Unitec NZ a little challenging at times, but
is enjoying opportunities where sheis able to develop technical
accounting skills that help her analyse and evaluate accountingand
business problems. Chan Sook enjoys working in groups some of the
time and oftentakes on a leadership role, but as a self-directed
individual she also enjoys work where shecan concentrate on things
by herself. A second year student, Chan Sook has been building a
Web 2.0 ePortfolio for over a year,after being encouraged to start
one in her first year. She was already familiar with usingFacebook
, Flickr , You Tube , Twitter and Diigo with her friends. However,
she felt that herthese spaces were part of her personal social
community and she did not want to use themfor what would become her
professional profile. As such, she made the decision to setup new
accounts specifically for use while studying, during internships,
and for any otherrelevant experience, feedback, reflections and
comments. When first starting to build and design her ePortfolio,
Chan Sook was introduced to theideas of collecting, selecting and
reflecting, giving her some guidelines around what toinclude in the
'public' face of her ePortfolio. Through this work, Chan Sook
became awarethat 'less is more' and is not a repository for
everything she has ever done and thought.Rather, her ePortfolio is
an organic tool that will change as she does, and will need
frequentrevisiting to remove or replace resources that are no
longer relevant - for instance,examples of competencies that she
has since improved.
Continuing to work in consultation with her tutors, Chan Sook is
constructing an ePortfoliothat captures her learning journey and
development as both a self-directed learner and anaccountancy
student. By updating and adding resources regularly from the
activities sheundertakes, Chan Sook considers that she is building
a body of evidence and reflectionfor use during the course she is
studying, as well as being easy to adapt to a showcasegraduate
portfolio once she has left Unitec NZ. As such, at the moment her
ePortfolio isdesigned around the key competencies and learning
outcomes required by the courseshe is studying even though she
believes her ePortfolio will be something that is going toaccompany
throughout her working life.
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Chan Sook enjoys the fact that she can plan, set milestones, and
really unpack thoughtsand ideas in her ePortfolio. Some aspects,
such as her reflections, she keeps in a privatewiki where she
regularly writes, posts images from places she has been and of
people shehas met. Where relevant, she edits and blogs these
reflections in a slightly less 'raw' format,and enjoys the comments
that are frequently left from people from all around the world,
as well as other students participating in her course. Her blog,
she feels, is her 'testingground' for initial thinking around some
of the key concepts of accounting, and associatedassignments. Chan
Sook now feels comfortable contacting (via email or Skype) some of
theleading lights of accountancy in New Zealand and beyond, and has
been delighted with thesupportive, informative responses that she
has received. All of these responses she keeps inher ePortfolio,
partly for later acknowledgement purposes, but also to illustrate
her researchand networking abilities. Some of the content she has
included in her ePortfolio to date includes:
Chan Sook has been working as a intern at a large accounting
company in Aucklandduring the semester breaks and the summer and
has written about some largeprojects she has been involved in. She
has included reflections on the process and herpart in it, to work
out how she could improve her performance. Much to her delight,a
couple of her observations of making the process more effective
have been takenon board by the team with whom she was working. The
manager mentoring herinternship and the team have been happy to
provide feedback and comments on hercontributions - mainly typed
up, but one person recorded their thoughts to audio. HerePortfolio
offered her a formal forum to reflect on this feedback, as well
somewhereto share a description of her time at the company, her
experiences, some examples of her work, images and a short of video
she recorded during her internship.
She recently wrote a short article for the USU student magazine,
and makes regularblog postings on her own blog site. These she
hosts online and has links to from herePortfolio.
Chan Sook keeps up with thinking around accounting concepts and
principles, partly
by adding the RSS feeds from some key podcasts and blogs to her
Google Reader.She also contributes to discussion forums in
accountancy communities, and posesher own questions and uses the
answers to help her with assignments and in theworkplace.
In her spare time, Chan Sook volunteers at a local Community
Centre helping withtheir books. As part of this work she helped
other volunteers with the migrationacross to computerised accounts
and has encouraged people to meet regularly todiscuss problems,
celebrate successes, and to help each other with technical
issues.Through mentoring from her tutor she was quick to identify
that these experiencesillustrated, not only her accounting and
technical competency, but also her innovationand leadership
potential - things she captured and recorded in her ePortfolio
throughblog entries.
While browsing and catching up with news Chan Sook often locates
resources thatlook useful and adds them to her shared social
bookmarking site, carefully describing,categorising and tagging
them so that she can find and use them later. Having sether Twines
as public, she was pleased when other people joined and starting
addingresources. The Twines she includes in her ePortfolio as she
feels it demonstratesseveral features, in particular being an
active member of communities of practice.
Tools Chan Sook uses to build her Web 2.0 ePortfolio
