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Pam, I didn't spot your initial request for speakers. Had I done so, I would
have recommended Kathryn Barker, a specialist in e-portfolios, who is guest
editing a special issue on this topic for Innovate. Her website is at
http://www.futured.com/
Best.
Jim
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James L. Morrison
Editor-in-Chief, Innovate
http://www.innovateonline.info
Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership
UNC-Chapel Hill
http://horizon.unc.edu
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From: "Person, Pamela (personp)" <
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Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 12:37 PM
Subject: [POD] Speaker on electronic portfoliois
I want to express my thanks to everyone who responded to me suggesting the
names of individuals who could speak about the outcomes for using electronic
portfolios. Several people have asked for copies of the responses. I have
attached them below:
Pam
Pam Person
Director, First Year Experience and Learning Communities
University of Cincinnati
(513) 556-4741
www.uc.edu/learningcommunities
Probably the best person is Barbara Cambridge, formerly with AAHE and
coordinator of the National Coalition on Electronic Portfolio research.
Kathleen Yancey from Clemson would also be outstanding.
>Barbara, if she has time, would be perfect.
>
>The team from Northern Illinois has focused on first year comp, so they
>might be good as well.
>
>Yes?
>
>k
Pamela,
I recommend that you contact Dr. Jennifer Turns at the University of
Washington, Department of Technical Communication. She is a co-PI on
NSF-funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education and is an
affiliate researcher with the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching
at the UW.
Dr. Turns has a number of research projects focused on portfolios. As an
engineer, she might also help you increase the participation of STEM (Sci,
Tech, Engr, &
Math) faculty at your event.
I used to work closely with Dr. Turns at the Center for Engineering Learning
and Teaching (prior to coming to Temple as the TLC Director). She is a
highly respected researcher in the Engineering Education Research community,
as well as in Technical Communication. A couple of years ago, she received
one of the National Science Foundation's highly competetive CAREER grants to
conduct research on student learning portfolios and also to integrate that
research and portfolio use in her courses.
Jennifer is one of those rare faculty who effectively combine research &
teaching, and who can communicate equally well with both faculty developers
and faculty-- from all disciplines, not just engineering (i.e. she won't
speak in engineering-ese).
I don't know if she has room in her schedule for an event like this, but you
would be lucky to get her. Feel free to mention that I recommended you
contact her. Her email address is <
jturns@engr.washington.edu>.
Angela
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Angela R. Linse, Ph.D.
Director, Teaching and Learning Center
Temple University
215.204.2670
A colleague of mine forwarded me the request that you posted on the
POD listserv. The "why" is something that we have taken a close look at
here at Penn State. It also coincides with a working paper that will be
included in the proceedings of the Europortfolio 2005 conference in
Cambridge, England this October. I will also be giving presentation at this
same conference on a related topic, the challenges of implementing
e-portfolio in institutions of higher education. Penn State to date has not
adopted an enterprise solution for e-Portfolios. Students and faculty are
doing wonderful things using the up to 1 GB of open web space that Penn
State provides them. the question for us is - can we do more? At what
cost? Is it about accountability or is it about reflective practice and
lifelong learning? In my opinion, we live in very exciting times with
regard to how we can promote richer understandings of their university
experience. Our collective understandings will evolve the more we talk
about, think about and get involved in this type of activity.
Please take a look at both our e-portfolio web site at:
http://portfolio.psu.edu <http://portfolio.psu.edu/> as well as the
portfolio section of the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute where the Penn
State e-Portfolio Intitiative is housed.
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/portfolio/
If you would like to talk more about what we are doing here at Penn State
and whether or not you feel I would be able to help your faculty think
through the issues related to e-portfolio implementation, please do not
hesitate to contact me.
I hope this helps...
thanx, Glenn
I just heard an excellent presentation on e-portfolios by Prof. Sharon
Hamilton of IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis) at the
EAIR (European Association for Institutional Research) conference in Latvia
-- just two weeks ago. She has considerable background in the topic and
would be good both as a keynote speaker as well as for providing support
afterwards for implementation issues.
Here is Sharon's contact information -- she is in the Office for
Professional Development at IUPUI:
e-mail:
shamilto@iupui.edu
phone: (317) 278-1846
Good luck with this!
Judy Patton at Portland State University. She is an expert of both learning
communitites and eportfolios for student learning. Her email is
pattonj@pdx.edu
I invited Eileen Herteis, now at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick,
to a one-day workshop on learning portfolios. Our objective was also to
focus on the function of portfolios rather than the systems.
She is a very engaging speaker, lively and funny, and her presentation was
well researched and convincing.
The information I prepared is at
http://www.ithaca.edu/cfe/events_HerteisWorkshopMay05.htm
This was the midpoint of a weeklong series on course design and she followed
Dee Fink.
Best,
Susanne Morgan
Ithaca College
One area you may want to search for such a speaker is the National
Coalition on Electronic Portfolio Research (http://ncepr.org/ncepr/drupal/).
The coalition is headed by Barbara Cambridge (
bcambridge@NCTE.ORG), Kathleen
Yancey (Florida State University), and Darren Cambridge (
dcambrid@gmu.edu).
Although none of those three might be able to be a keynote speaker, they
could probably suggest someone from the coalition (or elsewhere).
Good luck in your search.
If you can locate Barbara Cambridge, she's the author of the AAHE guide,
Electronic Portfolios, now published by Stylus.
Best,
John von Knorring,
Stylus Publishing.
Electronic Portfolios
<http://www.styluspub.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=117891>
Have you considered Sharon Hamilton at IUPUI? I can't speak for her
availability, but she is close and qualified. She is in charge of our
ePortfolio initiative here (which is associated with the Sakai Project).
She is Chancellor's Professor of IUPUI, Professor of English, Associate Dean
of the Faculties, Director of Facet (IU's Faculty Colloquium for Excellence
in Teaching), and the Founding Director of the Center on Integrating
Learning at IUPUI. She's also a long-time POD member. Some information on
her is at:
http://w3.liberalarts.iupui.edu/faculty/fgMain.asp?action=view&FacultyNu
mber=83
Her contact information is at the bottom, but here it is anyways:
E-mail:
shamilto@iupui.edu
Campus Address: UL 1140C
Campus Phone: 278-1846
Campus FAX: 278-3602
Try T Mills Kelly from George Mason University in VA. He was in the first
class of Carnegie Scholars and his project was on electronic portfolios.
Just google him.....
T. Mills Kelly
Assistant Professor of History
George Mason University
Dr. Kelly is this year¹s inaugural Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award
³Teaching with Technology² designee. He is the associate director of the
Center for History and New Media and an assistant professor of History and
Art History at George Mason University. The award-winning Center is the
country¹s foremost center for research into, and production of, historical
materials for scholars, students and the general public, as evidenced by its
web servers receiving almost 200-million hits last year. Named a Pew
National Fellow by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
and an Independent Fellow with the Visible Knowledge Project at Georgetown
University, Dr. Kelly has worked with colleagues nationwide on issues of
integrating digital media into teaching. With two National Endowment for the
Humanities Exemplary Education Grants, he has created and disseminated
teaching resources used by faculty at high schools, community colleges and
universities in the U.S. and abroad, and he has led numerous K-12 and
faculty development workshops. Through his research on student learning, he
has focused on how the use of digital media can increase, rather than
decrease, the quality and quantity of student collaboration, and his
favorite comments on end-of-semester student evaluations are those that say
³I never realized history could be interesting!² Dr. Kelly holds a Ph.D. in
History from George Washington University.
Contact Kathy Obrien at Alverno -after wandering around their website if you
dont know it But know that when Alverno do something they do it in full
fashion !
Kathleen O'Brien <
Kathleen.Obrien@alverno.edu> She is probably not your
speaker but she will suggest someone good from Alverno If you contact her
mention my name if you want
Alan
--
Alan Jenkins;Reinvention Fellow for the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate
Research : University of Warwick and Oxford Brookes University
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/cetl/
and Associate Practitioner for the Higher Education Academy.
Home Address: Lane End, Sandfield Road Headington, OXFORD. OX3 7RQ
e:
alanjenkins@brookes.ac.uk t:+44 1865 761996
For details on the book you really need on Reshaping Teaching in Higher
Education : Linking Teaching and Research go to
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0749439033/ref=ed_ra_of_dp/202-0719
142-6681429
Pamela, the most engaging speaker on electronic student portfolios is Kathy
Blake Yancey, formerly at Clemson, just moved to the University of Florida
(I think at Tallahassee). She's witty, and knowledgeable, and, with Barbara
Cambridge, co-chairs the National Coalition on Electronic Portfolio
Research.
If she is not available, I have presented all over the country, as well as
in the UK and Latvia and Canada, on electronic portfolios. I have developed
our electronic institution portfolio as part of the Urban Universities
Portfolio Project, and am currently heading the development and
implementation of our electronic student portfolio. I am a member of the
National Coalition that Kathy Yancey co-chairs, and will be presenting on
the Scholarship of Electronic Portfolio Research at the upcoming SoTL
conference in Vancouver (with Susan Kahn).
Sharon J. Hamilton
Associate Dean of the Faculties
The Center on Integrating Learning (COIL)
Co-Director of FACET
755 West Michigan UL 1140C
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-278-1846 (tel); 317-278-3602 (fax)
http://www.iupui.edu/~facet Http://www.opd.iupui.edu/COIL
I'm working on my online capstone portfolio course tonight and it occurred
to me that the easiest way for me to get my thoughtst to you would be to
simply paste the email into a webpage, so for what it's worth, here's my
advocacy thoughts on portfolios.
http://www.msu.edu/course/ed/870/portfoliosforpamelaperson.htm
Please take a look at the page, and the link to my gallery page in it.
Perhaps you'll find it interesting.
Whatever, I do wish you the best in promoting the concept. It's important.
Patrick
A good speaker for the purpose that you described for Kathy Yancey would be
Darren Cambridge, who teaches Internet Studies at George Mason University,
is assistant director of the National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio
Research, and does work internationally on electronic portfolios. Darren can
bring theoretical underpinnings from a number of sources to bear on why we
need electronic portfolios and what they can do for learning and for
educational systems. Having had practical experience in developing a system
and in using eportfolios himself, he has both macro and micro perspectives.
He has recently evaluated the Minnesota state system, with intriguing
findings, and has also been several times in the UK to work with
universities there. He will present at the international ePortfolio
conference next month in Cambridge, England.
Cambridge's contact information is
dcambrid@gmu.edu.
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