What is ownership? I found this definition from US Legal’s website: “Ownership is the legal right to the possession of a thing. The object of ownership can be tangible such as personal property and land or it can be intangible such as intellectual property rights over musical, literary or scientific creations of the mind.” https://definitions.uslegal.com/o/ownership/ After reading the legal definition of ownership, I would answer my first question above with “I do”. The best comparison I can think is your house, if you own one that is. After you buy your house you move in and decorate it, paint the walls, arrange landscaping, or maybe even remodel it and why do you do this? You do this to make this YOUR home and have it reflect who you are and your personality. This is exactly what we are doing with our ePortfolios. We own it so we are going to decorate it with pictures, videos, audio and even text that will reflect who we are and what we’ve learned. We want it to reveal our personality… this is what makes it authentic to us. So, back to the house situation, can it be taken away from us if we don’t pay our mortgage or our taxes, why sure it can but the items inside our house belong to us and that doesn’t stop us from making it ours until the bank is paid in full. This holds true to our ePortfolios as well. We don’t own the domain necessarily but all the content inside the domain is ours and that can’t be taken away from us. The next question, how is having ownership over an ePortfolio process important to the learner? I feel that this is important to the learner because it allows the learner to be free in their thinking and their reflection as it’s the learner’s story that is being told in their ePortfolio and not anyone else’s. When a learner tells their story they are reflecting on experiences that they had and research shows that when this happens the stories embed into their long-term memory. Donald Schön (1988) discussed storytelling as a mode of reflection: “…for storytelling is the mode of description best suited to transformation in new situations of action.... Stories are products of reflection, but we do not usually hold onto them long enough to make them objects of reflection in their own right.... When we get into the habit of recording our stories, we can look at them again, attending to the meanings we have build into them and attending, as well, to our strategies of narrative description.” Even though our blogs are kind of derived from an assignment we still are using the COVA approach. Again, that is C-Choice, O-Ownership, V-Voice, and A-Authenticity. These are very important concepts because of the following.
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