The training for tutors went very well today. There was a great presentation on reading, and why reading in college is so difficult for students. There is a very big distinction between reading for pleasure and reading for academic purposes. It was a discussion on reading strategies and how we can incorporate them into our tutoring structure to better help students.

Specifically for DigiSpace, we can help students set up their ePortfolio in a way that is visually appealing where there is not too much going on, but all of the content is there, and organized so that anyone navigating their site knows where to go. In order to do this, there needs to be a large emphasis on the Heading and drop down menus, as well as using the categories and tags to better focus topics into one area. Another issue talked about was annotation, and how we have the ability on ePortfolio to embed links into words, so we can link articles to ideas, and definitions to words not in everyday vocabulary.

I think this presentation will help in the way that I approach students and help them. Before this experience, I focused more on students getting their ideas down and being able to learn how to upload it quickly, but now I know that there should be a focus on their ability to find their ideas and organize them in a way that they, and their professors, can get to everything that they need to.