Not your father’s Portfolio

Understanding an ePortfolio should not focus on the technical survival of a specific thing at a specific URL. Thinking about a specific collection of artifacts in a specific system at the specific URL is too narrow a focus for our understanding of an ePortfolio. An electronic portfolio is both more durable and more tenuous than its paper predecessor. Its also more powerful. Its not a thing or a place, its a practice.

From Student Feedback to University Accreditation

This post supports a free TLT Group webinar
The Harvesting Gradebook: From Student Feedback to University Accreditation

Friday, September 25, 2009 2:00 pm (ET)
The event will take place in Adobe Connect

Theron DesRosier, Jayme Jacobson, Nils Peterson, & Gary Brown
Center for Teaching Learning and Technology, Washington State University

Crowd-sourcing feedback

David Eubanks commented on our recent Harvesting Feedback demo. I’ll save replying about inter-rater reliability to focus now on his suggestion of using Mechanical Turk and the very insightful comment about the end of “enclosed garden” portfolios. I think David correctly infers that Mechanical Turk is a potential mechanism to crowd-source the Harvesting Feedback process [...]

Harvesting feedback on a course assignment

This post demonstrates harvesting rubric-based feedback in a course, and how the feedback can be used by instructors and programs, as well as students. It is being prepared for a Webinar hosted by the TLT group. (Update 7/28: Webinar archive here. Minutes 16-36 are our portion. Minutes 24-31 are music while participants work on the [...]

Google Wave unifies Workspace and Showcase Portfolios

Google Wave was just announced at the Google I/O conference, video here. At minute 27:00 to 31:00 you will see a segment with important implications for the conversation we have been having with Helen Barrett about Showcase vs Workspace ePortfolios. Our original, and her graphic.  What seems to be important about Google Wave is the [...]