Plan, act, reflect & eportfolio (PARE)

Plan, act, reflect & eportfolio (PARE)

Sacred time for YOUR eportfolio practice

Next session:

1 May 2024 – 1.00-2.30 pm (SYD time)

Register for the next Plan, act, reflect & eportfolio (PARE) session


The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee is pleased to announce the next Plan, act, reflect & eportfolio (PARE) session for 2024.

These sessions are designed to give you time to plan and develop your OWN career / professional / other goals by working on your OWN eportfolio.

It is important if you advocate eportfolio practice for student use that you are also an eportfolio practitioner, and that you have personal experience in setting up and maintaining your own eportfolio or eportfolios for a variety of audiences and purposes.

It can be hard to do deliberately set aside regular times to do this, so this is your time to work on planning, creating, or updating your eportfolio.

These 1.5 hour sessions are loosely based around the Pomodoro method of writing and will include:

  • discussions of goals and outputs
  • sustained periods of eportfolio work / writing
  • sharing and reflection time for attendees

If you have so much on that you just need to plan, do that but no emails and no Facebook or Twitter, and try to avoid mindless web surfing. This is your time to do something for you and your career.

Why attend?

Supporting the importance identifying and capturing evidence of our professional practice: 

  • Applying for jobs or career advancement
  • Supporting your own Professional Development Review / Currency / Continuous Professional development
  • Setting and achieving own career goals
  • Identifying and addressing skill gaps / opportunities
  • Reflecting on own practice to identify areas of improvement opportunities

Objective:

  • Develop regular practice in creating and maintaining your own professional portfolio
  • Develop networks and undertake professional conversations of benefits of taking the time to develop and maintain your own professional portfolio
  • Role model what is means to a professional undertaking eportfolio practice

Session dates, times and facilitators

  • 1 May 2024 1.00-2.30 pm (SYD time) – Claire Bowmer, Flinders University
  • 25 July 2024 – 9.30-11.00 am (SYD time) – Leanne Ngo, La Trobe University & Marie (Bernie) Fisher, University of New England

Format – 1.5 hrs:

  1. Welcome and overview
  2. Discussion / Catch up
  3. Throw ideas around about what you would like to achieve during this session
  4. Set time to Plan, act, reflect & eportfolio (PARE) (with intermittent times to touch base)
  5. Group sharing 
  6. Moving forward – Setting goals before next time
  7. Identifying next session’s lead (if one has not been nominated)

What to bring:

  • Broad goal/s
  • Ideas or be open to ideas

What you don’t need:

  • An eportfolio, eportfolio tool or space – this can come later

What’s your commitment?

You decide.  Attend one session, all sessions or just when you can make it.

Register for the next Plan, act, reflect & eportfolio (PARE) session

For more information or to enquire about ePortfolios Australia hosting a PARE for your organisation:

Call: (+61) 0400 732 270
Email: eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com