Michelle’s OLFPZ

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators – Assessment Rubrics
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At the Discovery.com site, a good listing of assessment tools, focusing in on rubrics. There are four links for e-Portfolios.

I mentioned that I would post a note about our upcoming e-Portfolio event on my blog… and here it is! I beleive that this will be the first event of its kind in BC — > and we hope to draw a broad cross section of educators and professionals….

Electronic Portfolios: More than a 21st Century Resume

Date: December 5, 2003
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: UBC Robson Square Theatre C300
800 Robson St, Vancouver
Cost: $50.00 plus GST ($53.50)
Pre-registration required

Educators worldwide are actively evaluating the potential of electronic portfolios to enhance and support school-based learning, lifelong learning and professional practice. On December 5, 2003, please join the members of UBC’s e-Portfolio Community of Practice and their special guests at UBC Robson Square Campus for a unique Professional Development opportunity – Electronic Portfolios: More than A 21st Century Resume. This full day event will draw together post-secondary and K-12 educators, government personnel, industry developers and working professionals to examine the pedagogical foundations, technical considerations and community of practice development opportunities associated with e-portfolios.

Selected contributors to this event include:

Karen Belfer, e-Portfolio Community of Practice Coordinator, University of British Columbia
Darren Cambridge, American Association of Higher Education and 2003 NLII Fellow.
Beth Hawkes, Co-Director, Career Connections, University of British Columbia
Michelle Lamberson, Director, Learning Technology, University of British Columbia
Cyprien Lomas, Research Associate, Skylight, University of British Columbia and 2004 NLII Fellow
Tom Lewis, Director, Educational Technology Development Group, University of Washington

Find out more (agenda) | Register online (Visa and MasterCard only

For registration information, including group registration, contact: career.connections@ubc.ca or 604 822 8658

For program information contact: eport-ubc@interchange.ubc.ca or 604-827-5162

This event is jointly sponsored by the
– UBC ePortfolio Community of Practice
– UBC Career Connections
– The UBC Office of Learning Technology
– MAPLE

Largely under-noticed (but I have probably missed blogposts on this given that my head has been down…)…

On Nov 3, in time for Educause, the e-Port Consortium released an excellent white paper on e-Portfolios, accessible through:

http://www.eportconsortium.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=6&tabid=35

This paper, a collaborative effort of educators, and university and commercial developers, has something in it for everyone, and will serve as a good summary for people looking to get engaged in e-portfolio work.

The use cases described, the diagrams (being visual – these are my favorite part of any paper) depicting relationships with other systems and standards considerations, and the links to other e-Portfolio projects are all quite valuable.

To get an idea of the depth of the coverage, here is an excerpt from the Introduction:

“The first three sections of this white paper focus on the user perspective and provide a conceptual overview, describe possible scenarios and consider potential benefits. Sections four, five and six focus on the technical aspects of ePortfolios and include discussions on system infrastructure, interoperability and standards, and deployment challenges. Sections seven and eight provide overviews of commercial offerings and a summary of academic electronic portfolio projects. Details from the survey of electronic portfolio projects used for Section eight are in the Appendix. Depending on interest and expertise, a reader can select the sections that are most relevant.”

Kudo’s to the collaborators! We’ll be circulating this widely within UBC, and will certainly be making this available to anyone who participate in our December 5 e-Portfolio Day (more on that in another post).