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Create. Share. Engage.Some thoughts on portfolios over the last 15 yearsIn this episode, Mahara project lead Kristina Hoeppner, MA, takes a brief look back at 15 years on the Mahara team at Catalyst IT. She pulls out a few instances of portfolio use. This is only a tiny selection and by no means a full representation of what is happening in the portfolio community as you can see from the many stories that we share on this podcast.ResourcesLearning management system MoodleMoodleMoot Global 2025Library management system KohaKohaCon 2025Bret Eynon, Laura Gambino (2018): Catalyst in action: Case studies of High-Impact ePortfolio practiceRecording of Mahara Hui Online o...
2025-06-1714 min
Create. Share. Engage.Annemarie Galeucia & Boz Bowles: Create a portfolio and get a medal for itDr Annemarie Galeucia and David 'Boz' Bowles, MFA, are members of the Communications Across the Curriculum (CxC) team at Louisiana State University in the U.S.A. The CxC team created the Distinguished Communicator Medal Program in 2005, supporting students before effective communicators.In this episode, Annemarie and Boz talk about the evolution of the program in which portfolios play a crucial role and discuss how and why the portfolio component has changed over time and how the team supports students.A cool thing about the programme? Students receive an actual medal upon graduation.
2024-04-1646 min
Create. Share. Engage.Kristina Hoeppner: A year of interviews in reviewPodcast host Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT) looks back at a year of interviewing portfolio practitioners and researchers for 'Create. Share. Engage.' She shares common insights and recurring themes.If you'd like to share your story, get in touch.Connect with KristinaFediverseLinkedInResourcesQuarterly Mahara community newsletterMonthly Catalyst portfolio newsletterMahara websiteMahara on LinkedInAAEEBLAAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios PrinciplesEportfolios AustraliaPodcast guests in order of their quotes in the episodeMandia Mentis, Bob Reuter, Ingrid D'Souza, Stephen Harlow, Paul Libbrecht, Wendy Holly-Boen, Andrea Ghoneim...
2023-10-1017 min
Create. Share. Engage.Christine Slade and Kevin Kelly: Digital ethics principle DEIBDDr Christine Slade (University of Queensland) and Dr Kevin Kelly (San Francisco State University; Independent Consultant) explore the concepts of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and decolonisation (DEIBD) in portfolio practice, having been members on the AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force since 2019. They share their reasons for joining the task force, why DEIBD is important to them, and what learning designers, instructors, and learners can do to incorporate them into their own practice.This is the second episode with members of the Digital Ethics Task Force. Episode 12 looks at the principle of 'Visibility of Labor' with Dr Amy C...
2023-02-2839 min
Create. Share. Engage.Amy Cicchino, Megan Mize, Sarah Zurhellen: Visibility of labourDr Sarah Zurhellen (Appalachian State University), Dr Megan Mize (Old Dominion University), and Dr Amy Cicchino (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) talk digital ethics in portfolio practice. The main focus is on the AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principle 'Visibility of Labor', and how that impacts educators and students alike.This is the first episode with members of the Digital Ethics Task Force. The next one will look at the principle of 'Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Decolonization' (DEIBD) with Dr Christine Slade and Dr Kevin Kelly.Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
2023-02-1433 min
Digication Scholars ConversationsS3 E12 Ethics in ePortfolio Technology in the Bright New Days of Innovation, Privacy, and InclusionThis concludes our conversation with the outstanding group of ePortfolio scholars and practitioners, AAEEBL ePortfolio Association.
Kindly fill out the Visibility of Labor survey here: https://bit.ly/mapepsurvey
Our Guests:
Elizabeth Clark, Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, The City University of New York
Megan Mize, Director of ePortfolios & Digital Initiatives at Old Dominion University
Peter McLellan, Educational Analyst at Oxford College of Emory University
Sarah Zurhellen, Assistant Director, Writing Across the Curriculum Program Professional Consultant, Writing Center Appalachian State University
Collectively, they are part of the AAEEBL Digital Ethics Taskforce, https://scalar.usc.edu/works/aaeebl-digital-ethics-principles-v2
AAEEBL...
2022-12-2125 min
Digication Scholars ConversationsS3 E10 Ethics in ePortfolio Technology in the Bright New Days of Innovation, Privacy, and InclusionIn this #Holiday special of the #DigicationScholars Conversations with members of The Association for Authentic, Experiential, & Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL), special task force; our host, Jeffrey Yan, and the outstanding team of featured educators chat about Digital Ethics.
There are so many guiding principles that ground the use of ePortfolios. Listen to one of the best conversations about it, to date.
Our Guests:
Elizabeth Clark, Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, The City University of New York
Megan Mize, Director of ePortfolios & Digital Initiatives at Old Dominion University
Peter McLellan, Educational Analyst at Oxford College of Emory University
Sarah Zurhellen...
2022-12-0825 min
Digication Scholars ConversationsS3 E9 How Writing Can Help Promote Student Engagement Across the CurriculumIn the final part of our conversation with Sarah Zurhellen, she talks about helping students write well and think better, as well as helping faculties integrate and teach writing.
For students, she says Writing starts with helping them understand the 'why' of writing.
Sarah is the Assistant Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum (or WAC) Program at Appalachian State University and a Professional Consultant in the University Writing Center. She is the primary WAC consultant for several departments and colleges in App State.
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2022-11-3031 min
Digication Scholars ConversationsS3 E8 How Writing Can Help Promote Student Engagement Across the Curriculum"Writing happens in all spaces across learning, in all disciplines, in all fields," says Sarah Zurhellen, our amiable guest on this week's Digication Scholars Conversations.
Sarah is the Assistant Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum (or WAC) Program @Appalachian State University and a Professional Consultant in the University Writing Center.
There are immense benefits to cultivating writing skills that go beyond fundamental literacy, but what these are and why they matter isn’t always obvious.
But now you can learn more about:
What is writing across the curriculum (6:10)
What is good writing (and the overlapping contexts across programs)? (11:32)
Developing sk...
2022-11-2331 min
situation / storyTOMBOYLAND w/Melissa FalivenoAbout the Book:In this intrepid debut essay collection, Melissa Faliveno traverses the liminal spaces of her childhood in working-class Wisconsin and the paths she’s traveled since, compelled by questions of girlhood and womanhood, queerness and class, and how the lands of our upbringing both define and complicate us even long after we’ve left. Part personal narrative, part cultural reportage, TOMBOYLAND navigates midwestern traditions, mythologies, landscapes, and lives to explore the intersections of identity and place. From F5 tornadoes and fast-pitch softball to gun culture, strange glacial terrains, kink party potlucks, and the question of mot...
2021-10-261h 03