An excellent article, Cultural Shift at a Community College: E-Portfolios Go Campuswide, highlights the cultural shift taking place at Tunxis Community College, a two-year college using the Digication e-Portfolio and Assessment Management System, was published in Campus Technology yesterday.  Learn about their student focused approach, the faculty support network they are forming, and the implementation strategies the e-portfolio project leader, Laura Gambino, is putting into action.

Read the full article here: http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2010/08/12/ePortfolios-Go-Campuswide.aspx?Page=1

Here’s an extract:

“In fall 2008, Gambino pulled a committee together to develop a list of criteria about what the college wanted in an e-portfolio product. “We wanted it to be easy to use. We wanted students to have the freedom and creativity to express themselves. We wanted a strong assessment management system that went along with that,” she said. Keeping budget in mind, the committee examined a lot of products, including open source options. But, she explained, “you have to have the tech staff to support and maintain and administer [open source software]. We really didn’t have anybody we could dedicate to a project like that.”

Then the committee tried out Digication. “We did a Webinar with Jeff Yan, the CEO of the company. Everyone in the room agreed. There were smiles all around. We looked no further,” Gambino said. Tunxis did a pilot in spring 2009 and migrated last summer to start the fall 2009 semester with the new product.”

Digication is mentioned in today’s The Geek Weekly article “Your Paper Résumé Is So Fired”.

In the summer 2008 edition of CONVERGE magazine, Dr. John Ittleson’s article called Know Your ePortfolio, names Digication as an ePortfolio company “that has successfully implemented ePortfolios and assessment systems.” In the article, Dr. Ittleson tells the history of ePortfolio technology and looks ahead to future developments.

Dr. Ittleson is the Director of Instructional Technologies for the K-20 California Educational Technology Collaborative (K20CETC).

The article begins on page 32 and you can read it here: http://media.centerdigitaled.com/Converge_Mag/pdfs/issues/ConvergeSum08_72.pdf

Digication at The Stem: National Arts Assessment Conference
October 18 – 22, 2008
Sheraton Universal Hotel
Los Angeles, CA

Jeff Yan, CEO of Digication, will present Digication’s Assessment Management System in his session titled “Authentic Student Assessment Using Digication e-Portfolios” on Tuesday, October 21, at 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM in Terrace B.  The presentation will demonstrate how schools and districts are using e-Portfolios as a workspace and showcase of student achievement, and how the authentic student work is used to perform formative and summative assessments, using clearly defined rubrics correlating to state standards.

http://www.ccsso.org/conference/brochure/index.cfm?ConferenceID=286

From the Classroom 2.0 newsletter:

Saturday, May 17th, at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 3pm GMT, Michael Staton interviews Jeffrey Yan, Founder and CEO of Digication, at the start of our weekly “Web 2.0 Week in Review.”

Digication is one of the most popular e-portfolio sites on the web and also offers a fully-integrated Course Management System with a focus on the k-12 level. Join them to talk about e-portfolios, PBL, and portfolios as assessments.

Log in at classroom20wiki.com/live+conversations or directly into the Elluminate event at  https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=1101&password=M.8DAFD346DA4B268DC185FED8466556