WPA 2007 Assessment Institute

Draft CCCC Best Practices Document

dcambrid — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:55:45 +0000

Because of time constraints, we weren’t able to have a discussion of the draft CCCC best practices statementon electronic portfolios that was distributed at the Institute.

CCCC Best Practices Statement - Draft

Because this document will be revised this year prior to its formal adaption, your feedback will be extremely valuable to the committee working on it. I hope we can have a lively discussion of it in this space.

Some questions to which you might respond:

Why does this document do well?
How might it be helpful to you?
What excites you about it?
Why is the way its written effective?
What have you learned from it?
How might you use it?
What needs improvement in this document?
Why doesn’t it help you accomplish what such a policy document be needed for?
Why is the structure and contents inappropriate for its audiences?
How does this document relate to other statements issued by professional organizations in our field, such as the WPA outcomes statement or the CCCC statement on writing in digital environments? What should be role of these organizations in shaping ePortfolio practice?

Institute Schedule

mnealfsu — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:43:40 +0000

WPA Summer Assessment Institute: Electronic Portfolios

Tempe, AZ 2007

9-9:15 Introductions

9:15-10:30 Definitions, core concepts, and key contexts
Slides: Definitions, core concepts, and key contexts

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:15 Relationship between composition and institutional ePortfolio initiatives
Slides: Relationship between composition and institutional ePortfolio initiatives
Handout:

11:15-11:45 ePortfolios and social software
Slides: ePortfolios and social software

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Responding to ePortfolios at a programmatic level
Handout:

2:00-2:45 “Herding cats”: Faculty development, buy-in, and working with IT
Slides: Hearding Cats
Handout:
Bonus video

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00-3:30 Platforms
Slides: ePortfolio technology

3:30-4:00 Closing: concept mapping

Chapter and Electronic Portfolios to Read Prior to the Institute

mirrormargaret — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:10:16 +0000

If you have the opportunity prior to attending the institute, please take some time to read through a chapter by Kathleen Blake Yancey entitled “Digitized Student Portfolios” as well as the student ePortfolios listed below. These texts will introduce a few foundational principles and examples that should help us get off to a strong start when we meet next week.

Kathleen Blake Yancey “Introduction: Digitized Student Portfolios” (pp. 15-30) in Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge. AAHE, 2001. yancey-aahe-eports.pdf

Manju Poudel. This portfolio was composed in Blackboard at LaGuardia Community College. It is part of LaGuardia’s public “Portfolio Gallery” (intermediate level), which can be accessed here.

Tracy Wright. This portfolio was composed in Avenet’s eFolio by a faculty member at Northland Community and Technical College in Minnesota. It’s part of a lifelong-learning project called eFolio Minnesota, which provides free electronic portfolio space and resources to all residents of Minnesota.

Sean Moore. This site, which includes a blog, visuals, and a portfolio, was composed as a undergraduate capstone project for the New Century College at George Mason University.

Bethany Strong. This portfolio was composed in FrontPage for a senior seminar in biology at Spelman College. The professor of this class asked her students to compose portfolios addressed to incoming first-year biology majors.

Eva Maria Hirschmann: This portfolio was composed by a student in a first-year composition class at Clemson University using Composer, a free web authoring program.

Introductions

mirrormargaret — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:32:01 +0000

Hello, participants in the WPA 2007 Assessment Institute! We (Darren, Michael and Margaret) look forward to working with you on July 12.

The purpose of this blog is to offer everyone a chance to “meet” each other before the institute takes place. It also includes some preparatory materials that may be helpful to you. (Preparatory materials are not required reading–attend to them as you are able.) We can also use this blog after the institute to post material and exchange ideas for those of us working with ePortfolios in our classes, programs, and/or institutions.

Please take a minute to introduce yourself and offer any information you’d like your fellow participants to know. (Click on “Comments” to read others’ introductions.) Some starter questions–

What brings you to this institute?

What interests you about electronic portfolios?

What do you hope to get out of this institute?

(Or make up your own questions … )