Howard Wach
Bronx Community College
South End, Plaza Level
Tuesday, 9:30-10:20am
The Degree Program Model: Reflection and Assessment in Bronx Community College ePortfolios. The Degree Program Model: Reflection and Assessment in Bronx Community College ePortfolios Degree programs are a promising avenue for building ePortfolios. This presentation demonstrates two models of ePortfolio use at Bronx Community College within degree programs featuring well-established curricula and objectives. Each prepares students for careers and for transfer. Both programs, Digital Arts and Education, demonstrate approaches to reflective learning and to assessment, two valuable elements of ePortfolio use in higher education.
Marie Hanlon & Deborah Robinson
LaGuardia Community College
Harborview III, Plaza Level
Tuesday, 9:30-10:20am
Silver Threads and Golden Needles: Journal Writing and Storytelling to Spin Strands of Meaning. The presenters will explore the connection between journal writing, storytelling and reflective practice to enhance students’ understanding of life themes and to explore personal meaning and identity.
Judit Török & Bret Eynon
LaGuardia Community College
Harborview I, Plaza Level
Tuesday, 9:30-10:20am
Making Connections National Resource Center
Making Connections ePortolio Seminar – for Institutional Change. An introduction and analysis of LaGuardia’s ePortfolio dissemination program: The Making Connections ePortfolio Seminar. Using theoretical structures about effective faculty development, adult learning theories, and institutional change, I will give a detailed structure of our ePortfolio seminar process, leading 30 colleges and universities in the NYC area to design, implement and evaluate their own ePortfolio projects.
Susan Holak
College of Staten Island/CUNY
Exhibit Hall
Tuesday, 2:00-3:00pm
Poster Session: ePortfolios at the College of Staten Island: Strengthening Learning Communities on a Commuter Campus
Amy Stevens
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
North End, Plaza Level
Tuesday, 2:30-3:30pm
Back Door Implementation – ePortfolios for Student Clubs. As we know, academic implementation of e-portfolios can be a slow process, while we build buy-in from faculty. However the classroom isn’t the only place students learn. In this session we will show you how MCLA implemented a plan to capture, monitor and assess the learning outside the classroom space by beginning with our student clubs.
Michael Napolitano, Edward Goodman, Hector Fernandez & Nicole Maguire
LaGuardia Community College
Harborview I, Plaza Level
Tuesday, 2:30-3:30pm
The ePortfolio as a catalyst for departmental change. The Business and Technology Department of LaGuardia Community College has fully embraced the ePortfolio. Indeed, all business students are required to develop and maintain an ePortfolio in their first semester at the college. In this presentation, faculty from the business department will discuss their use of ePortfolio and the ways in which ePortfolio is “threaded” throughout the various business programs.
Gina Rae Foster
Lehman College
Skyline, Plaza Level
Tuesday, 3:45-4:45pm
Making Connections Partner Proposals: Student Leadership Reflection & Assessment. Lehman College’s Title V SI Leader ePortfolio increases opportunities for student self-assessment and program evaluation. The ePortfolios have proven instrumental in ensuring College support of the SI Program and faculty involvement in SI activities. With the move to online assessment, Title V SI Leaders have demonstrated remarkable success in assessing their progress in developing leadership, facilitation, and project management skills.
Evangeline Harris Stefanakis & Victor Coelho
Boston University
Harborview II, Plaza Level
Wednesday, 8:30-9:20am
A Developmental Look at Assessment for the 21st Century. This developmental portrait of e-portfolios across different stages of learning demonstrates comprehensive assessment systems for diverse populations of students to make learning visible. This session will summarize case studies using portfolios and new technologies that respond to social, cultural, and linguistic factors in secondary and undergraduate programs. These portfolios will keep track of student learning according to both standards based education or competency based programs.
Bret Eynon
Cityview I, Plaza Level
Wednesday, 9:30-10:20am
LaGuardia Community College
Making Connections: ePortfolio, Student Learning and Institutional Change LaGuardia Community College has emerged as a major voice in the higher education dialogue about how ePortfolio can best support student and faculty learning.
This session provides an opportunity to examine the ePortfolio strategy pioneered by LaGuardia and its Making Connections partners, which integrates learning and assessment, career development and transfer. It features students’ visually expressive ePortfolios, juxtaposing academic course work with lived experience, personal reflection with Web 2.0 social interaction. And it will point to the broader potential of networked cross collaboration, aimed at enriched student learning and far-reaching institutional change.
Rob Schadt
Boston University
Jeffrey Yan
Digication
Harborview I, Plaza Level
Wednesday, 11:30 – 12:15pm
Incorporating ePortfolio Technology into Teaching for Capturing Student Learning and Reflection. Rob Schadt, EdD, Director of the Office of Teaching, Learning and Technology at Boston University, will describe the transformative experience of incorporating e-Portfolio technology into his Computers in Communication course. Schadt will share assignment strategies, reflective prompts and student e-Portfolios. Jeffrey Yan, co-founder and CEO of Digication, will briefly introduce the Digication e-Portfolio and Assessment Management System utilized in this course.
Judit Torok
LaGuardia Community College
Harborview III, Plaza Level
Wednesday, 11:30 – 12:15pm
Learning with ePortfolios – Student Presentations. Students from multiple Making Connections campuses will present their ePortfolios and talk about how the process of building portfolios changed the way they see themselves and their education. Students from 2-year, 4-year and graduate level academic programs will showcase their work side-by-side as they reflect on the transformative experiences of learning with ePortfolios. Leaders of Making Connections will moderate the session.
Barbara Walters, Ellen Smiley & William Bernhardt
SPS CUNY Online Baccalaureate
Sarah Morgano
CUNY School of Professional Studies
South End, Plaza Level
Wednesday, 11:30 – 12:15pm
ePortfolios, Meta-cognition and the Double Loop in Basic Research Methods. Web 2.0 tools facilitate shared knowledge, reflection and meta-cognition among CUNY Online Baccalaureate students in a research methods learning community.
ePortfolio modeling encourages ownership transfer and thoughtful self-navigation of program learning goals, targeted in course objectives and assignments. Examples highlight tiers in a scaffolded series of competencies that are pre-requisites to capstone projects in our Communication and Culture concentration.
Wesley Pitts
Lehman College
Exhibit Hall
Wednesday, 2:00-3:00pm
Poster Session: Using E-portfolio as a Portrait of Growth through Inquiry in a Chemistry Education Program
Norm Sutaria
Long Island University
Exhibit Hall
Wednesday, 2:00-3:00pm
Poster Session: Growing ePortfolios across a complex ecosystem: tales from a rookie Making Connections team
Jan Kempster & Kistie Simmons
Prescott College
Exhibit Hall
Wednesday, 2:00-3:00pm
Poster Session: Transforming the Institution through Eportfolio Development and Assessment
Laura Gambino
Tunxis Community College
Skyline, Plaza Level
Wednesday, 2:30-3:20pm
Culture Shock to Culture Shift: Creating an ePortfolio Culture. How does an institution transition from culture shock to a sustained ePortfolio paradigm? At Tunxis Community College, we are in the midst of this culture shift as we move to incorporate ePortfolio into our degree programs. Our presentation will focus on shifting the culture from teaching to learning, making learning visible, and integrating ePortfolio at the course and program level.
Debra Engel & Clarence Chan
LaGuardia Community College
North End, Plaza Level
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm
ePortfolio for Physical Therapy Education – The Perfect Complement to National Licensing Examination. All health science education programs strive to help students become ethically and clinically competent professionals. The ePortfolio system developed by the PTA program at LaGuardia Community College encourages students to reflect and connect their academic and clinical proficiencies and personal growth. As a complement to standardized assessment, ePortfolio explores additional ways to assess student learning.
Philip Gimber, Margaret Norris & Deborah McMillan- Coddington
LaGuardia Community College
Harborview II, Plaza Level
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm
Holistic Assessment of Nursing Students using ePortfolio. After 6 years of work integrating ePortfolio into coursework, the nursing program has developed a holistic assessment design that has been used as a model throughout the campus. Samples of completed ePortfolios, templates, rubrics, and data will illustrate the power of ePortfolio in transforming pedagogy to assess students work while fulfilling accrediting agency requirements such as Middle States and Nursing (NLNAC).
Melissa Peet
University of Michigan
Cityview I, Plaza Level
Thursday, 9:30-10:20am
Academic Director for the Integrative Learning and MPortfolio Initiative at the University of Michigan. The Integrative Knowledge Portfolio Process: Educating lifelong learners, Leaders and Change Agents at the University of Michigan. This presentation addresses the question, How can we prepare students to learn FOR life, if we do not teach them how to learn FROM life? Increasingly, policy rhetoric both globally and in the US asserts that higher education institutions must adopt more integrative and lifelong learning methods and approaches in order to better prepare students for the 21st century knowledge economy. In order to work adaptively, collaboratively and creatively within ever-changing work environments, today’s’ workers and leaders must be able to reflect on what they are doing, solicit feedback from others, and modify their practices as needed. However, despite these needs, there is very little research or theory that addresses the types of pedagogy that is best suited for teaching students how to recognize, reflect on, and learn directly from life experiences. The Integrative Knowledge Portfolio Process, a method of integrative, lifelong and life-wide learning developed from over 5 years of research at the University of Michigan, is a process that teaches students how to recognize and retrieve the tacit knowledge (unconscious insights, strategies and ways of knowing) gained from real life experiences, and connect this to the explicit knowledge (formal theories, concepts and methods) gained from academic courses. Through this process students learn to recognize the unique types of knowledge and capacities they’ve gained from all areas of life, and how these connect to their passions, values, identities and social commitments. This presentation will include an overview of the research, theory and methods underlying the Integrative Knowledge (e)Porfolio Process, and the impact it is having on students, educators and the institution as a whole.
Kimberly Ramirez
LaGuardia Community College
Skyline, Plaza Level
Thursday, 9:30-10:20am
LaGuardia Community College Performing Reflections: ePortfolio as a “Digital Forum Theatre.” Writing and Latino Literature students use ePortfolio as a theatrical forum to “stage” scenes across media. By uniting artifacts they have both located and created into the same environment, developing researchers learn to dialogue with their sources, manipulating and publishing unresolved “plots for classmates to review.
