Foliospaces provides a hosted and free Mahara installation. This will be useful to community members wanting to try out Mahara without going through the installation process.
Here is the link
http://www.foliospaces.com/
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Career Portfolio in Manitoba Webinar (Archived)
This is a link to the archived webinar hosted by the Austrailian ePortfolio CoP. Don Present and Linda Maxwell present abou the Career Portfolio Manitoba project. Click on the Eluminate link below to access the webinar.
October 29: speaker Don Presant, and Linda Maxwell, Manitoba, Canada
Career Portfolio Manitoba
Career Portfolio Manitoba is a pilot project whose vision is to use
Essential Skills developed through all forms of learning as a key
framework for helping Manitobans build ePortfolios for employability.
The blended learning solution is based on a robust paper portfolio
program which has been successfully delivered in various forms for two
years.
https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2010-10-28.1536.M.E58F6EDFFA5FA3EDE727DCFB80FBD8.vcr&sid=2008350
Association of American Colleges & Universities’ Annual Meeting, January 26-29, 2010 and ePortfolio Forum: Deepening High-Impact Learning, January 29, 2011, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., San Francisco, CA
Association of American Colleges & Universities’ Annual Meeting, January 26-29, 2010 and ePortfolio Forum: Deepening High-Impact Learning, January 29, 2011, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., San Francisco, CA
http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/AM11/eportfolioforum.cfm
AAC&U Annual Meeting — GLOBAL POSITIONING: Essential Learning, Student Success, and the Currency of U.S. Degrees
January 26-29, 2011, San Francisco, California / Hyatt Regency Hotel
http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/index.cfm
Early Bird Deadline – November 23, 1010
Preliminary program available at: http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/AM11/PreliminaryProgram.cfm
AAC&U would like to invite you to the 2011 Eportfolio Forum: Deepening High Impact Learning. A cutting edge event, co-sponsored by AAEEBL, the Forum will provide new campus examples of free eportfolio platforms, assessment practices that show measurable improvements in student performance, and signature pedagogies that are simple and quick to implement and yet deeply transform students into active, lifelong learners. Join us January 29th in San Francisco to participate in pioneering content that is specifically designed to address today’s most challenging eportfolio issues and provide new solutions for old problems. Visit http://tinyurl.com/2dw2yp6 for more information or email Wende Morgaine Garrison at wendebmg@gmail.com with any questions you have. Thank you!
EPAC November Webcast: eportfolio learning for 21st century readiness with University of Oregon
Monday, November 15, 2010
11 a.m. PT/12 p.m. MT/1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET
http://epac.pbworks.com
This event is free to all interested individuals although pre-registration is required: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHB4Y3dfZWhJRE9GSmpCckVjZ3RROWc6MA
If you cannot attend but would like to be notified when the archived recording of the session is available, please go ahead and register as well.
Description:
This webinar will present University of Oregon eportfolios in three professional programs: Architecture, Business, and Arts Administration. The history of eportfolios at UO will be presented along with the unique implementation challenges and successes in each program. Discoveries related to changes in student learning and teacher pedagogy will be addressed. The UO eportfolio program (Ufolio) is part of the 5th cohort of the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research (INCEPR). Ufolio is in its 3rd year, and UO has had an eportfolio program since 2006.
http://ufolio.uoregon.edu
http://aaablogs.uoregon.edu/aad
Presenters:
Ron Bramhall has been on the faculty of the Leadership and Communication Center at the University of Oregon Lundquist College of Business since 2003, and is the Director of the Lundquist College of Business Honors Program since 2006. In those roles, Ron works with students, faculty and organizations to develop leadership, communication and collaboration skills. Ron’s interest in eportfolios revolves around their potential for the development of cross-curricular “professional” skills through experiential and reflective learning. Prior to his work at the UO, Ron consulted with organizations on leadership, communication, and collaboration skills. His clients have included Home Depot, Microsoft, Intel and Hewlett-Packard, among others. Ron holds an MBA from the University of Oregon and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Nancy Yen-wen Cheng researches how digital media can enrich the design process at University of Oregon where she directs the Architecture Deparment’s Portland Program. She began using the Internet for design collaboration and architectural education in 1993. She is the 2009-2011 President of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design in Architecture (ACADIA) and an editor for the International Journal of Architectural Computing. As 2004 chair of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Technology in Architectural Practice group, she organized an AIA-ACADIA conference on digital fabrication. Prior to teaching architectural design and digital media in Oregon, she taught at University of Hong Kong and practiced in Boston. http://eportfolio.uoregon.edu/Members/nyc
Lori Hager is an assistant professor in the Arts and Administration Program at the University of Oregon. She teaches graduate courses and conducts research in the areas of arts education policy and practice, community youth arts, and community arts development. She coordinates co-curricular learning for undergraduate and graduate students in community arts and arts management, and as Associate Director of Community Arts for the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy, she founded and directs the eportfolio project, which focuses on student-centered assessment, digital documentation, and connecting curricular and co-curricular learning in the graduate curriculum. She is a founding member of UO’s ufolio group, which is part of the fifth cohort of the Inter/National Coalition of Electronic Portfolio Research (INCEPR).
November Portfolio CoP Meeting
November 29th Topic:
Dr. John Egan, PhD, Senior Manager, Curriculum Consulting at the Centre for Teaching Learning and Technology will present on his experience implementing and assessing ePortfolios using the WordPress platform in ETEC 565 a course offered in the Masters of Educational Technology Program at UBC.
Who? Open to all faculty, instructors, staff, students and community members engaged and interested in Portfolios.
Why? To provide regular opportunities for presentations, discussion, resource sharing, and networking for the Portfolio community at UBC.
When? Monday, November 29th, 10:30 am-12:00 pm
Where? Irving K Barber Learning Centre – Fraser River Room 2.27
Registration Link:
http://www.events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/view/1121
Austrailian ePortfolio Toolkit
The ePortfolio Toolkit was developed as part of the Australian ePortfolio project completed in 2010. The toolkit provides conceptual guides to ePortfolios for stakeholders in higher education.
The Australian ePortfolio Toolkit
Portfolio CoP Meeting November 1st
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
Workshop: Evaluating Teaching Portfolios Translating Feedback into Practice
Facilitator: Gary Poole
Nov 2, 2010
1:30pm – 4:30pm
It is not uncommon for there to be a disconnection between the faculty members who are skilled in creating teaching portfolios and those charged with the responsibility of evaluating them. In this session, we will work to develop our evaluation skills by considering the elements of a good portfolio and how those elements are manifest. We will use examples to discover where to look within a portfolio for evidence of effectiveness, growth, constructive reflection, and correspondence between stated philosophy and action.
Presentation: Portfolio CoP Focus 2010/2011
portfolios for Lifelong Learning and Assessment.
This resources appeared recently on the EPAC listserv.
Hi all,
I’m pleased to announce the publication of my book, Eportfolios for Lifelong Learning and Assessment.
It’s on Amazon in hardcover and Kindle, and there are Nook and Adobe eBook versions as well: http://www.amazon.com/Eportfolios-Lifelong-Learning-Assessment-Cambridge/dp/0470503769/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1.
The publisher’s description is actually pretty on target:
Lifelong learning is an ongoing process of developing knowledge, skills, and strategies; putting capabilities and self-understanding into action; and, thereby, establishing an identity. A major goal of education is to enable individuals to have agency in the world through their evolving understanding of themselves, their capabilities, and their connections to others. In this book, Darren Cambridge shows how electronic portfolios provide a means for colleges and universities to help both adult and traditional college-age students at all levels articulate their identities in a manner that reflects their own values and is coherent over time, equipping these students to put that self-understanding to work in their communities and the world.
The book draws on many exemplary practices for developing eportfolios and suggests resources for bridging the gap between current practice and the extraordinary potential of eportfolios. The author presents the foundations of an educational vision that is distinctly supported by eportfolio use, drawing on work in philosophy, sociology, higher and adult education, and elearning research.
Showing how eportfolios can be used in programmatic and institutional assessment, the book emphasizes the importance of taking advantage of the distinctive characteristics of eportfolios, which combine reflection with diverse evidence, as opposed to more limited forms of assessment that consider individual samples of work in isolation from their contexts. Cambridge suggests future directions for higher education institutions committed to integrating curriculum, assessment, and technology.
The author also discusses how eportfolios are being used by individuals, companies, government agencies, and professional bodies for developing individual and collective knowledge and for managing transitions between levels of education, education and the workplace, and places of employment.
As the eportfolio movement continues to gain strength, both within and beyond higher education, Eportfolios for Lifelong Learning and Assessment will prove to be an invaluable resource.
Praise for Eportfolios for Lifelong Learning and Assessment
“A brilliant synthesis of theory, scholarship, and rich, real-world examples—this is the book the international eportfolio community has been waiting for. Its challenging educational vision and sure sense of where the latest technology is taking us make it essential reading for all teachers and decision makers—for everyone, in fact, who wants to think deeply and imaginatively about eportfolio provision for the next generation.”—Angela Smallwood, associate professor of Education, and director, Centre for Integrative Learning and the International Center for ePortfolio Development, University of Nottingham
“Darren Cambridge’s book is about much more than electronic portfolios; it is a natively twenty-first century vision of integrative learning. Any scholar of teaching and learning who is trying to make sense of this transformational moment in higher education should read it.”—Randy Bass, executive director, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, and assistant provost, Teaching and Learning Initiatives, Georgetown University
“Eportfolios for Lifelong Learning and Assessment maps an ambitious agenda. It’s about eportfolios, of course, but as important, it challenges us to think about curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment collectively, as a coherent whole. It helps us see that in the process of making these pieces work together, we construct a culture—not only in school for our students, but also in life for us all. And in establishing this framework, this volume provocatively asks, Which culture do we want to create and support?”—Kathleen Blake Yancey, Kellogg W. Hunt professor of English and director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition, Florida State University
Cheers,
Darren
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Darren Cambridge
Assistant Professor of Internet Studies and Information Literacy
New Century College
Affiliate Faculty, Higher Education Program
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
+1 (202) 270-5224 (mobile)
+1 (703) 993-1439 (fax)
http://ncepr.org/darren/