L2L Mini Learning Portfolio Contest (updated with results)

Results of the L2L Mini Learning Portfolio Contest:

• Best Learning Portfolio Award
  • Gold: "Progress over Perfection: How to make 'bad' art" by Bharati Das (SD)
  • Silver: "Sailing the Waves of Fear: My Leetcode Journey" by Yerkezhan Sartayeva (COMP)
  • Bronze: "Blend my power with Blender" by Lin Kwok-wing (COMP)
• Best Portfolio Design Award
  • "Progress over Perfection: How to make 'bad' art" by Bharati Das (SD)
• Elemental Award
  • Fire: "Learn R programming" by Ng Wing-lam (CBS)
  • Earth: "A Journey to Be AI Engineer" by Pang Kangiao (EIE)
  • Water: "Find a good job" by Duan Mengning (APSS)
  • Air: "How I Learnt to Fly" by Tejeswar Yarlagadda (BEEE)

How to Vote for Your Favourite L2L Mini Learning Portfolios? 

1. Click on the image in the table below to view the portfolio
2. Click on this link to vote for your favourite portfolio for the four elemental awards:-
   • The ‘Fire’ Award: It makes me want to pursue my aspiration
   • The ‘Earth’ Award: It makes me want to change the way I learn
   • The ‘Water’ Award: It makes me reflect on my learning
   • The ‘Air’ Award: It makes me think about learning differently

Guidelines and Information

 Introduction

The L2L Learning Portfolio Contest is part of the “Goal Beeyond” Learning to Learn (L2L) Event Series 2023 held by the Educational Development Centre (EDC). This contest invites students to share an episode of their experience of pursuing their dreams, in which they set a goal and try to achieve it in the space of one semester. It takes place in January to May 2023.

 Objectives

Through this event, we hope to:

1. Promote a sense of ownership over their own learning and development process among students.
2. Provide a platform for students to share their good practices and valuable experiences in L2L.

Eligibility

All PolyU students are welcome to participate in this contest as individuals. One student can make one entry only.

 How to Join?

To join the contest, you need to do the following in Semester 2, 2022/23:

1. Set a goal for yourself and share it on the Contest’s “Padlet Wall” and register your interest in entering the contest by filling in a simple online form (by 31 January 2023 Extended: 17 February 2023). The goal can be anything related to your personal aspiration. It must be something that requires you to learn something and develop as a learner. It should be something that the participant can realistically achieve within one semester.
2. Take actions to try to achieve the goal over the course of the semester.
3. Share your story and reflections through a mini learning portfolio in a “Sway Presentation” format (the link will be activated in due course) near the end of the semester (by 14 May 2023). The content should cover the following: What is your dream/aspiration? What was your goal for this semester? What did you do to pursue the goal? To what extent has the goal been achieved? What did you learn about yourself as a learner in the process? How can you further develop as a learner? What’s next from here? The story should be told in around 500 words (written in English; no more than 800 words) with no more than 20 pictures and 3 minutes of video material (if any) as illustrations.

A portfolio will be disqualified if it contains:

• Copyrighted/unlicensed materials
• Offensive language
• Inappropriate or illegal contents

 Awards and Judging Criteria

The Best Learning Portfolio Awards will be selected based on the following criteria:

• Relevance: To what extent does the portfolio tell the story of the student pursuing a self-determined goal and becoming a better learner in the process?
• Reflection: How deeply did the student reflect on the learning experience and his/her development as a learner?
• Inspiration: To what extent is this a story that will inspire others to start chasing their own dreams or developing as learners? (See also the Elemental awards below.)

The Best Portfolio Design Award will be decided by a design expert, who will select the winning portfolio based on its communicative quality, aesthetic quality, and creativity and originality.

The ‘Elemental’ Awards will be determined completely by viewers’ votes. There will be four awards corresponding to the four classical elements: Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Viewers will be invited to vote for the portfolios that have the biggest impact on them:

• The ‘Fire’ Award: It makes me want to pursue my aspiration.
• The ‘Earth’ Award: It makes me want to change the way I learn.
• The ‘Water’ Award: It makes me reflect on my learning.
• The ‘Air’ Award: It makes me think about learning differently.

The award will go to the portfolio with the most vote. One portfolio can only get one Elemental Award. If the portfolio getting the most vote has already been identified as a winner for another Elemental Award, the portfolio with the second highest vote will be the winner, so on so forth.

 Prizes and Lucky Draws

Each qualified entry will get a $200 supermarket coupon as a reward for participation.

There will be a token of appreciation for the voters too. The first 100 voters will each get a $50 supermarket coupon. For every 100 voters, there will be a lucky draw to give away a $100 supermarket coupon.

 How to Vote for Your Favourite Portfolios?

Qualified portfolios will be made available to the PolyU community through our contest webpage from 22 May to 4 June 2023 for viewing and voting. Voting will be carried out via the mySurvey platform which requires NetID login. Each voter will need to cast at least one vote, at most two votes per category (Fire, Earth, Water, Air), and state the reasons for at least one of their choices.

 Announcement of Results

The results will be announced and published on our official contest webpage of the L2L website in early June 2023 and winners will be informed by email. An award ceremony and prize presentation will be held in early June (exact dates to be announced in due course). Excellent awardees will have the chance to be invited to upcoming follow-up activities, e.g., sharing presentation / talk session.

 Additional Support

L2L Learning Portfolio Contest Orientation

This activity will provide details of the L2L Learning Portfolio Contest, including the objectives, entry requirements and procedures, assessment criteria, awards and prizes, and additional support for students who are interested in taking part in the contest, e.g. training workshop. Date: 13 January 2023 (Friday) Time: 2:30 – 3:30 pm Venue: TU616 and online via ZOOM Facilitators: Vivian Cao (EDC), Kenneth Tam (EDC)

Workshop: How to create a learning portfolio?

In this activity, some useful tips will be shared on how to create a learning portfolio online. It will include a simple demonstration on how to use Microsoft SWAY for creating a learning e-portfolio. This workshop is intended for students who are interested in taking part in the L2L Learning Portfolio Contest, but others are also welcome. Date: 10 February 2023 (Friday) Time: 2:30 – 3:30 pm Venue: TU411 and online via ZOOM Facilitators: Vivian Cao (EDC), Kenneth Tam (EDC)

 Enquiries

For enquiries, please kindly contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 2766 5578.

 Notes on copyright: By submitting a piece of work for the contest, participants grant PolyU an unrestricted royalty-free license to use, edit, display, publish, distribute, and/or broadcast the submitted work in part or in entirely through any channel/medium for any purpose.

 Notes on terms and conditions: The organising party reserves the rights to amend the terms and conditions presented in this document without prior notice and to make the final decision in case of disputes.