An Award Winning Eportfolio - March 05, 2007

An Award Winning Eportfolio - March 05, 2007

This week I've decided to follow Dr. Scott's example and comment on an URL that is interesting.

In the fall of 2005, Clemson University began requiring a General Education ePortfolio from all of its students.

http://dcit.clemson.edu/resources/articles/gened_eportfolio.php#jump11

Located in Clemson, South Carolina, this university has anticipated the needs of the future student and are requiring them today. This is a great site to visit for those of us still struggling with what an eportfolio should or could be.

However, it is also nice because it gives the school's rational for the decision.
Also their is a recreation of the best ePortfolio at Clemson (designed by Josh Reynold's) which we can view at:

http://people.clemson.edu/~jsreyno/portfolio/

worth checking out! As are Josh Reynold's comments about e-portfolios.

"He said, 'The whole point of the portfolio that I made was to help me realize the connections that I made across the curriculum, and to make these connections obvious to the people who view my portfolio, to show that I indeed did learn something, and not just how to regurgitate the assignments of the past semester.'

Reynolds explained that incoming freshmen will need to understand that 'this is an opportunity for students to demonstrate how well they can link their experiences across the gen ed competencies. They have already proven that they have the knowledge to answer specific questions by passing their classes, but it is just as important for them to demonstrate that they can make connections among those things they have learned. This is where I believe the value of the ePortfolio lies.' "

I also tried to investigate the platform "Blackboard" that this University was using.
http://www.blackboard.com/us/index.Bb

but ran into some technical difficulties when I tried to find out more about ePortfolios on their site.