Show me Yours and I Will Show You Mine
In the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology article Engagement with Electronic Portfolios: Challenges from the Student Perspective the authors point to student disillusionment with the fact that they all too often are being asked to do something, create an ePortfolio, which most instructors have not done. The following response from a student focus group session reveals students frustration in the fact that instructors are talking the talk but now walking the walk when it comes to using ePortfolios:
In terms of promotion the problem is the people trying to explain it have probably never used it so in a way they have no clue what they are talking about, basically. To put it frankly – after listening to them you would be like, Okay so you as an outsider who never even used it is telling us we should do this because it is the best thing since sliced bread but you have never used it – you can’t find someone who did use it – you don’t have enough information to tell us how to use it – and now you’re telling us use it and we’ll grade you on it – this kind of makes it hard for students to accept or appreciate it.
I have been keeping an ePortfolio since the late ’90s. Unfortunately, my earlier work was maintained on sites that I did not control and when I left those organizations I was not able to take my work. Therefore my current site www.harapnuik.org archives only go back to 2009. Lessons learned — take control of your domain and site and ensure that you can take your work with you.
Rather than attempt to explain what goes into an ePortfolio I am going to offer the following list of examples. You will note significant diversity in the way the sites are set up, the content that is covered, and the levels of sophistication. The common factor is that each of these ePortfolio highlights the author’s personal, professional and social interests and passion for sharing their ideas and experiences.
This post/page will be a work in progress and as I find additional examples they will be added. The examples are broken into the following categories:
Undergraduate Students
Lamar University Digital Learning and Leading & Applied Digital Learning Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Teacher & Principals
Professors/Instructors and Academic Professional
Institutional ePortfolio programs & Domain of Ones Own
Undergraduate Students ePortfolios:
Andre Malan
http://andremalan.com/
Jesse Lee
https://learn.uwaterloo.ca/d2l/eP/presentations/presentation_preview_popup.d2l?presId=509947
Lamar University Digital Learning and Leading Graduate Students
Examples of recent graduates of Lamar’s Digital Learning and Leading and Applied Digital Learning programs work in the program capstone course – EDLD 5320 Examples
Examples of current Lamar Applied Digital Learning students’ ePortfolio coursework can be found in the Assignment Examples links in the course map table on the ADL Program Map page.
Graduate Students ePortfolios:
Roselynn Verwoord’s Electronic Portfolio highlights and shares the work that she is doing with a diverse community of educators, community-based practitioners and researchers, and policymakers, at both the local and international level.
http://blogs.ubc.ca/rverwoord/
Rebecca Lynn Taylor – Graduate student teaching portfolio: Graduate student developing a portfolio for professional development
https://rebeccalynntaylor.wordpress.com/
Teachers & Principals ePortfolio Examples:
Sean Robinson – On The Side of Technology – His post Who Needs a Digital Portfolio points to the positive benefits of having a digital portfolio.
http://seanrtech.blogspot.ca/2015/06/who-needs-digital-portfolio.html?m=0
George Couros – The Principal of Change: Stories of learning and leading
http://georgecouros.ca/blog/
Related Youtube Video – Blog as Portfolio #leadership20
Joe Bower – For the Love of Learning
http://www.joebower.org/
Professors/Instructors and Academic Professional ePortfolios:
Tony Bates personal site for resources in online learning and distance education. Perhaps one of the best Academic Professional sites.
http://www.tonybates.ca/
Karen L. Kelsky, Ph.D. spent 15 years as an R1 tenured professor, department head, and university advisor, and will tell you the truth about grad school, the job market, and tenure.
http://theprofessorisin.com/
Wesley Fryer – Moving at the Speed of Creativity
http://www.wesfryer.com/
Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on K-12 school technology leadership issues.
http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/
Kevin Corbett’s site highlights his professional interests as they relate to the Internet, education & media technologies.
http://kevincorbett.com/
Michael Stephens – Tame the Web site focuses on emerging trends, tools, and processes driving change in library and information communities.
http://tametheweb.com/
Tony Karrer’s eLearning Blog on e-Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning eLearning Design Authoring Tools Rapid e-Learning Tools Blended e-Learning Tools Learning Management Systems (LMS) e-Learning ROI and Metrics
http://elearningtech.blogspot.ca/
Alec Couros – Open Thinking and Digital Pedagogy is Alec’s personal and professional blogging. Alec is a professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina.
http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/
Dr. Helen Barrett – No list would be complete without an acknowledgment of Dr. Barrett’s work with Electronic Portfolios and Digital Storytelling for lifelong and life-wide learning.
http://electronicportfolios.org/
Luke Wroblewski – LukeW is an internationally recognized digital product leader who has designed and built software used by more than one billion people worldwide. The simplicity and elegance of Lukes’s site is impressive.
http://www.lukew.com/
Innovative Educator – Lisa Nielsen is currently a director of digital engagement and professional learning and an advocate for changing the future of education. Her blog is a great example of a professional ePortfolio.
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.ca/
Tony Wagner – Transforming Learning
http://www.tonywagner.com/
Institutional ePortfolio programs & Domain of Ones Own
Auburn University ePortfolio Examples page. Includes inks to ePortfolios from Auburn students and alumni.
http://auburn.edu/academic/provost/university-writing/eportfolio-project/
University of Mary Washington’s Domain of One’s Own project
http://umw.domains/
University of British Columbia Portfolio Communities of Practice
http://blogs.ubc.ca/portfolios/e-portfolio-examples/
References:
Tosh, D., Light, T. P., Fleming, K., & Haywood, J. (2005). Engagement with electronic portfolios: Challenges from the student perspective. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology/La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie, 31(3).
ePortfolio
Why: Learning to learn
What: Doing the learning
How: Showing the learning
Who: Owning the learning
ePortfolio Examples
Revised August 2023
