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my reflection about teaching of first year student | Abkar Ahmed's Profile

Enthusiastically, I am continuing exploring and improving e-portfolio but this time I am no longer learner of portfolio. I now share my experiences and knowledge with first year student in UTM and teach them how to create their own e-portfolio.  I started my hours of teaching with a small briefing about what is e-portfolio, why we create it and who will benefit from it. Then I started to show the student how to create e portfolio. During the session I have noticed many students who have the   spirit and the desire to have their own e-portfolio. so I was pleased  and happy seeing the great response from the student in learning e-portfolio.  Therefore I have taught them all features on e-portfolio and they really started to make their portfolios and successfully have done it. On the other hand some of the students were just like being the class and somehow not welcoming the idea “e-portfolio” well. But gradually they started to work but without that spirit or desire. They just do it because they are required from the faculty to do it. So I wonder why minority of the student are like that and I started thinking “ is e-portfolio not useful tool or the problem from the students themselves?” then I found out that e-portfolio should have some useful features in order to attract those students and make e- portfolio their friend. These features can be a small window for chat because this will bring the students attention. So students can academically communicate with each other even with lecturers. Another feature to be added to e-portfolio is to make student have their own theme because e-portfolio reflects the person and tell who you are so by letting students have their own theme it is a way of reflecting and telling who you are. Finally this is what I have noticed during my teaching.