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Refereed Paper with Presentation (20 minutes)

Christy Sanders, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, christyksanders@gmail.com
 * Constructing a Collective ePortfolio for Planning, Collaboration, and Reflection Among Teachers Using Google Apps **

Personal learning environments are a collection of tools, communities, and services that students use to direct their learning and customize to fit their learning needs. Google Apps for Education provides free access to a variety of tools for educators and educational institutions. The combination of these different tools and its use constitute a personal learning environment. Often these PLEs tools are applied to students in an educational setting, however using these same tools could be adapted to teachers in order to form a collective ePortfolio that would be used for planning, sharing lesson plans, instructional materials and resources, provide a place for collaboration, and reflection. The latter two practices would allow teachers to inform their instructional practices and provide teachers insight to improve their craft.

 Novice ePortolios personal learning environments collaboration reflection teacher professional development