Sigi Jakob-Kühn: Make students your partners in exploring portfolios

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Oberstudienrätin (Senior Teacher) Sieglinde Jakob-Kühn taught in the German school system for many years and discovered Mahara a few years after having started working with Moodle in an innovative way with her language students. In this interview, Sigi shares a few anecdotes from her active teaching time, showing how students took to the ePortfolio in the mid 2000s, exploring this new technology with her in partnership.
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Resources

• Sigi's keynote 'My personal learning story with Mahara' at Mahara Hui UK 2015
• Christine Dülfer's interview 'Supporting industry internships'
• Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft: The MOSEP E-Portfolio Course: A New Didactic Concept for Teachers and Vocational Trainers
• MOSEP overview
• Sir Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica: 'The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything'
• Sir Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica: 'Finding Your Element'

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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. How did you get started with portfolios? (00:01:29)

3. How did you get to use Mahara? (00:06:07)

4. What do you like about Mahara? (00:12:16)

5. What did the portfolios look like? (00:12:52)

6. How did the students take on portfolios? (00:16:05)

7. What was the engagement with the internship companies? (00:17:42)

8. What trends have you observed? (00:20:04)

9. What was the most memorable thing for you? (00:21:28)

10. Q&A: Three words / phrases to describe portfolio work (00:25:16)

11. Q&A: A tip for educators and portfolio authors (00:26:06)