#eportfolios

#CANISIUSCIC – Google Sites: Portfolio Platform & Alternative Course Repository

Yesterday, Canisius College put on a highly informative technology training day. I picked up a lot of great ideas. The first presentation was by Marya Grande, an Associate Professor in the School of Education and Human Services. In her presentation, she shared how she used Google Sites as a portfolio platform and a course repository. (more…)

ePortfolios as high impact practices

George Kuh added eportfolios earlier this year as the 11th high impact practice.

  In this video, Kuh (2016) identifies various elements of effective integration of eportfolios:

More than electronic record keeping tool

Longitudinal projects allowing students to store authentic work

Allows students to question their own work, in…

#WNYBUG2016 – Blackboard Portfolio Use

While at the 2016 Western New York Blackboard User Group learning day, I had an opportunity to sit in on a presentation about Blackboard portfolios. This was given by Danyelle Moore from Alfred State. At JCC, there has been some interest in using portfolios so this was very relevant to me. Danyelle answered a lot of my questions about using Blackboard’s portfolio platform. (more…)

Download handbook of research on eportfolios

Presenting at the 2015 Coursera Partner’s Conference

I just thought I would leave a note here that I will be doing a poster presentation at the beginning of March in Irvine at the 2015 Coursera Partner’s Conference.  I have never done a poster presentation before, but I am looking forward to the informal method of talking to other Coursera users.  My title will be “Is MOOCwork Emphemeral?” and will focus on how we used Digication portfolios to…

We know a lot of colleges and universities are now requiring ePortfolios for their students.  Why?  Because they are hoping that student portfolios becomes more than a collection of resources, assignments, or demonstrations.  Schools are hoping that it can become a great source for students to share work and ideas, receive feedback, and in a way be a source for career preparation and a way to document successes and credentials.

We wanted to share an ePortfolio we stumbled upon, from one of our SquareHook users.  We asked his permission to share his ePortfolio-as it was simple and clean, it gave a good idea as to what you can do to showcase yourself and your work.

Brian chose to use the INVERSE theme to build his ePortfolio for his courses at SLCC. He wanted to keep the design simple, so he could showcase a bit about himself and his background:

For his Coursework page, he needed to add his submitted final projects for his semester courses. He chose to use a table within a text square to make that happen.  He added file icons that were click-able to site visitors (in this case, his professors that would be visiting his portfolio to access his homework):

He added a Linked Page to make his current resume accessible.  He was able to do that, and add his coursework assignments in by uploading them into his Files, then copying the URLs to link them off:

And finally, he added a simple contact page, for people to get a hold of him.  He linked both his emails as well as created a contact form for people to get in touch with him.