For a general overview of PebblePad please visit the PebblePad page on the Teaching and Learning Commons website. For further learning, please see the synchronous and asynchronous professional development opportunities below.
If you or your department are wanting additional professional development opportunities that are not listed below, please contact the Teaching and Learning Commons for a consult with either an Educational Consultant of a Learning Technology Strategist.
Synchronous Opportunities
Community of Practice – ePortfolio Matters @KPU returning in Fall 2024
Facilitator: Gillian Sudlow and Lisa Gedak
Description:
Are you an eportfolio champion willing to share your expertise? Or are you curious about eportfolios, and how you might implement them in your course, program, or professional life? Do you have ideas, big or small, about how eportfolios might align with your course or program outcomes? Are you wary of the technical competencies required for yourself or your students? Do you want to learn more about eportfolio pedagogy and platforms? This Community of Practice is for you!
Join other educators (eportfolio experts and muddlers) to share ideas and resources, work through challenges, build skills, and connect with PebblePad specialists. This will be a flexible Community of Practice that will support you regardless of where you are in your eportfolio learning – all are welcome!
Fall 2024 Meeting Dates:
Session 1: TBA
Session 2: TBA
Session 3: TBA
Session 4: TBA
The schedule is scaffolded to allow participants to: build foundational knowledge of eportfolio pedagogy and the PebblePad platform, connect with other practitioners at various levels of engagement; connect with implementation specialists from PebblePad, workshop ideas, and reflect on challenges and successes. A proposed schedule appears below:
Each session will include a check-in/introduction (5-15 minutes), approximately 30 minutes of content offered by the facilitator/s and/or guest, and approximately 45 minutes for workshopping, small group discussion, and reflection related to the week’s topic. The workshopping and discussion portion of the session will be largely participant-driven.
Intro to ePortfolios
Facilitator: Gillian Sudlow
Workshop Description:
Curious and want to know more about ePortfolios? Here is your chance! Over the course of 3, 75 minute synchronous sessions you will learn the basics of ePortfolios, including the pedagogy and the tools that support their use for teaching and learning. We will cover the basics of what ePorfolios are and their uses for teaching and learning as well as introduce some suggestions and strategies for implementation and provide information regarding resources and additional support.
Spring / Summer 2024
Location: Moodle / Zoom
Dates / Times: April 25th, May 3rd, and May 10th from 1-2:15pm
To register, visit the TLEvents site.
Assessing e-Portfolio Learning with Pebble Pad & ATLAS
Facilitator: Gillian Sudlow
Workshop Description
Are you familiar with PebblePad, Pebble+, and ready to take on the administrative application Atlas? If you are ready to learn how to share resources directly to your students’ dashboards, use feedback tools to give formative and summative feedback to assess your students’ learning journeys, then this workshop is for you.
This online, synchronous course will introduce KPU instructors to the ATLAS side of PebblePad and how it integrates with KPUs LMS, Moodle. ATLAS is the assessment, teaching and learning component of pebblepad and can be applied in formative and summative assessments while also allowing KPU instructors to support students with self-reflection, peer review, and guidance using various pre-built and custom templates, rubrics, and grades. ATLAS also allows external assessors to comment and provide feedback on student work, opening a world of new possibilities!
“ATLAS is designed specifically to support rich, iterative and conversational styles of assessment and feedback.” – [PebblePad Help, 2021]
What are you waiting for? Grab your ATLAS this summer and start exploring what the complete world of PebblePad can do to support your course design.
Summer 2024
Location: Moodle / Zoom
Dates / Times: August 8th, 15th, and 22nd from 1-2:15pm
To register, visit the TLEvents site.
Asynchronous Opportunities
Click on the links to enjoy learning about the pedagogy and technology of ePortfolios at your own pace – anytime, anywhere.
Rollin Stones:
https://app.pebblepad.ca/spa/#/public/4wm9qZ3w4gpbp6MpZs7qwwrbgy
Understanding Atlas:
https://app.pebblepad.ca/spa/#/public/4wm9qZ3w4gpbpWg7j78fy6tmyy
ePortfolios explained video:
https://media.kpu.ca/media/ePortfolios+Explained+Webinar/0_hfyf1j3m