eportfolio.sfsu.edu

ePortfolio.sfsu.edu

Liberal Studies

2008 2010

Getting Started First Steps

• Overview Presentation & Consultation (with Department & Faculty)

• Getting Started Questions– Establish structure, “ingredients” & media

need for portfolios

• Faculty prepare students for use (adapt PPT, & share examples)

• Trainings scheduled (student sign-up & tool training early in semester)

Sustaining Elements

• Gateway/Capstone “anchoring” within curriculum

• ePortfolios are required, Faculty unified on process & use– Signature Assignments defined– Key word “tags” (learning objectives) agreed

upon at dept. level

Incorporating & Sustaining

• Faculty incorporate working on ePortfolios within course context (class held in lab, peer reviews, timely uploading & grading)

• Faculty Lead identified & in active touch with Academic Technology

• Faculty receive their own portfolios & training

• Planning for accreditation use from start in place

Lessons Learned

• Set clear, realistic goals & deadlines• Portfolios taken seriously at Dept. level

– Avoid “scrapbook” last-minute, final semester completion

– Digital Literacy (formal/informal web-identity, fear of technology addressed for both faculty & students)

– Faculty concerns about employer “buy-in”, & emerging use of digital CV’s

– Durable archiving of ePortfolios (have a plan!)

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