What are Electronic Portfolios?
Should SJSU Adopt Them?

Implementing Electronic Portfolios in Higher Education
Helen Barrett, PhD, Research Project Director for The REFLECT Initiative

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This three-hour workshop will cover many issues involved in planning and implementing electronic portfolios in higher education. After discussing the multiple purposes for portfolios, we will discuss the differences between electronic portfolios and online assessment management systems, balancing institutional needs for accountability and accreditation data with learners' needs for storytelling, or using reflection on experience to improve learning. Participants will review the differences between assessment OF learning (summative) and assessment FOR learning (formative), including the characteristics of portfolios implemented for each purpose. We will focus on the role of reflection in electronic portfolios and the tools for scaffolding reflection: blogs, wikis, podcasts, and digital stories, including a brief overview of the literature on reflection and brain-based learning. Finally, participants will discuss the portfolio development process, and a series of guiding questions to use when planning for implementing electronic portfolios in specific programs. There will be time to focus on individual program implementation issues.

Vendor Fair (Adobe Acrobat, KEEPToolkit, LiveText, TaskStream)

Electronic Portfolios for Making Invisible Teaching and Learning Visible: Issues, Cases, and Possibilities

Toru Iiyoshi, PhD, Director of the Knowledge Media Lab, Carnegie Foundation

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To build a sustaining knowledge community of practice and reflection, it is essential to to document, represent, and share a wealth of knowledge and experience in effective teaching and learning as well as successful educational transformation efforts.  This luncheon keynote talk will address how electronic portfolios can advance teaching and student learning in various contexts through exemplary cases, and share some of the major issues and possibilities in these efforts.

Use of Electronic Portfolios to Document Information Literacy Standards Usage

Rebecca Feind, SJSU Librarian

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Rebecca Feind will give a brief overview of Information Literacy and present several ideas for using e-portfolios to assess students' abilities to use sources to develop ideas.  Rebecca will discuss how students can demonstrate their research process through the development of their drafts through the final project.  She will also present suggestions for using citation analysis appropriately to gauge students' level of information literacy.

Student Uses and Issues for Electronic Portfolios
Moderated by Devin Elston, Student Peer Mentor

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Continental Breakfast

What is an E-portfolio and Why do we care?

Sally Veregge, PhD, Academic Senate Chair, Chair, Biological Sciences
Annette Nellen, J.D., CPA, past Academic Senate Chair, Professor, Accounting and Finance

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Professors Veregge and Nellen will explain why the Senate created a task force to study the pros and cons and considerations of using e-portfolios at SJSU. They will also provide an introduction to e-portfolio basics and some things to think about as we learn more about e-portfolios and whether we should be using them widely at SJSU.

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Keynote: Helen Barrett, PhD, Research Project Director for The REFLECT Initiative

ePortfolios: Digital Stories of Deep Learning

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This presentation will focus on deep learning and tools for scaffolding reflection in electronic portfolios: blogging and digital storytelling. New perspectives will be shared on storytelling as reflection on experience to improve learning and the role of reflection in brain-based learning, providing the pedagogical and theoretical justification for integrating digital storytelling into ePortfolios.

Break

Faculty Panel (John Ittelson, PhD, CSU Monterey Bay, Robin Love, PhD, College of Education, SJSU, Mary Lou De Natale, EdD, University of San Francisco)

Vendor Panel with Adobe Acrobat, KEEPToolkit, LiveText, TaskStream. The panel is a repeat of the session on Thursday at 2:00.

Luncheon Address by Provost Carmen Sigler

Assessing Campus Readiness for ePortfolios
Helen Chen, Research Scientist, Stanford University

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ePortfolios are more than just a technology: they imply a process of planning, keeping track of, making sense of, and sharing evidence of learning and performance. Using ePortfolios well requires embracing a set of practices and an understanding of learning called Folio Thinking. This presentation will describe the potential benefits of ePortfolios and Folio Thinking to support students, faculty, and institutions using examples of ePortfolio applications from a range of disciplines. Current research initiatives focusing on how ePortfolios can support authentic assessment efforts, community building, reflective thinking, integrative learning will also be addressed.

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Helen Barrett, PhD, Research Project Director for The REFLECT Initiative

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