Hi everyone, The first Portfolio Community of Practice meeting for the academic year was held on Monday, November 1st and we had some engaging discussion and came up with some directions and plans for this year. I have added a brief meeting summary below and included a list of resources that came up during the meeting.

Meeting Summary:
During the meeting we shared the progress of the various ePortfolio/portfolio projects we were involved in and discussed the context of ePortfolios at the University of British Columbia. We shared ideas about the upcoming year for the community and mentioned some areas/topics that we are interested in pursuing for the 2010/2011 academic year. We also introduced the updated Portfolio CoP website and discussed ways that members can contribute to it.

SCOPE ePortfolio Session May 2010
http://scope.bccampus.ca/mod/forum/view.php?id=6751

Palloff, Rena M., & Pratt, Keith (2007).  Building online learning communities: Effective strategies for the virtual classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Thinking Out of the Box: How the University of British Columbia School of Nursing Created a Practice e-Portfolio
http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/421/thinking-out-of-the-box-how-the-university-of-british-columbia-school-of-nursing-created-a-practice-e-portfolio

UBC Portfolio Community of Practice webspace
https://blogs.ubc.ca/portfolios/

Teacher Education UBC: ePortfolio Support/Resources
http://teach.educ.ubc.ca/resources/faculty-resources/ePortfolio/index.html