Sessions
Making Connections Campus sessions: Range of schools present their ePortfolio projects and research on student learning and identity. The presenting campuses include Bronx Community College, Rutgers University, Lehman College, School of Professional Studies, Brooklyn College, Empire State College, St. John’s University and Tunxis Community College.
LaGuardia sessions: LaGuardia sessions explore the creative and sustained efforts of using ePortfolios at various departments and programs including Middle College High School, Biology, Mathematics, Physical Therapy, Business Technology, Nursing, Liberal Arts Cluster, and a panel of Capstone faculty.
Student Showcase: Students from Rutgers University, Molloy College, and LaGuardia Community College present their ePortfolios and their transformational experience.
Session I (10:30-11:20)
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E252
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Rutgers University
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Creating Her Sense of Self: Feminist Advising, ePortfolio, and Integrative Learning
This presentation will describe the evolution of the eP project at Douglass Residential College, the women’s college at Rutgers; both how we have been using ePortfolio to support feminist advising strategies and pedagogical principles, and what this tells us about the ways in which particular women students create a sense of identity as learners through self-representation and reflection. Integrated student ePortfolios will be shown.
• Rebecca Reynolds, Assistant Dean
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E150
Joint Session
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Biology, LaGuardia Community College
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Unlocking the pedagogical potential of ePortfolio: Connecting biology, students and the lived experience
“Collect, select, reflect, connect” are inherent characteristics of ePortfolio that make it a valuable educational tool. However, ePortfolio can only succeed in fostering connection if faculty intentionally design strategies to support integrative learning. Two innovative uses of ePortfolio in connecting students with the lived experience will be presented: an assignment that fosters integrative learning in biology and the programmatic incorporation of ePortfolio to promote connection.
• Thomas Onorato, Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences
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Mathematics, LaGuardia Community College
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Coupling Mathematics with ePortfolio: An Unforeseen Outcome
The use of ePortfolio in the teaching of mathematics can shift the role the instructor plays in the classroom, resulting in a teacher-student role reversal. By making student learning visible and shareable, the ePortfolio creates a network where students can improve their knowledge and skills; it facilitates reflection and connection of learning across disciplines; it enhances assessment, and furthers curricular and pedagogical revision.
• Rudy Meangru, lecturer
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E264
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Bronx Community College
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Witnesses to their Own Progress: Reflective Learning and Preparing for the Workplace with ePortfolios
This presentation will discuss two models of ePortfolio use at Bronx Community College: course-based reflective learning and program-based professional preparation. In both models, student-centered pedagogies encourage active creation and structuring of course content and responsibility for its organization and presentation. The resulting sense of student ownership encourages use of the ePortfolios for internships, employment, and transfers to four-year programs.
• Howard Wach , Director of Instructional Technology
• Jordi Getman-Eraso, Professor, Department of History; Co-Director, Honors Program
• Jeanine Kelley-Williams, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Music
• Lisa Amowitz, Professor, Department of Art and Music
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E251
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Business Technology, LaGuardia Community College
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ePortfolio as a catalyst for departmental change
The Business and Technology Department of LaGuardia Community College has fully embraced the ePortfolio. Indeed, all business students are required to develop and maintain an ePortfolio in their first semester at the college. In this presentation, faculty from the business department will discuss their use of ePortfolio and the ways in which ePortfolio is “threaded” throughout the various business programs.
Student Presentation Video
• Edward Goodman, Associate Professor
• Hector Fernandez, Assistant Professor
• Nicole Maguire, Adjunct Lecturer
• Michael Napolitano, Chair
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E144
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Lehman College
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Developing Student Leaders with ePortfolio: Lehman's Supplemental Instruction Program
Lehman College’s Title V Supplemental Instruction Program engages faculty, and tudent leaders in an effort to strengthen students’ content and academic skills. The Student Leader ePortfolio increases opportunities for student self-assessment and program evaluation. The ePortfolios have proven instrumental in ensuring College support of the Supplemental Instruction Program and faculty involvement in SI activities. With the move to online assessment, Title V SI Leaders have demonstrated remarkable success in assessing their progress in developing leadership, facilitation, and project management skills.
• Gina Rae Foster, Title V Project Director & SI Coordinator
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E356
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Physical Therapy Assistant, LaGuardia Community College
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Capturing Student Learning: ePortfolio for Physical Therapy Assistants
The PTA program strives to help students become ethically and clinically competent professionals. The ePortfolio system developed by the PTA program encourages students to reflect and connect their academic growth and clinical experiences across the PTA curriculum. It is significant to note that students' success in using ePortfolio helped the PTA program achieve re-accreditation in 2009.
• Clarence Chan, Associate Professor
• Debra Engel, Chair of Physical Therapist Assistant Program
• Jackie Ross, Academic Clinical Coordinator of Education
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E255
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Middle College High School, LaGuardia Community College
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The Gateway ePortfolio at Middle College High School
In 2006, Middle College High School adopted a “Gateway” ePortfolio assessment tool for students moving from 10th to 11th grade. This intermediate benchmark facilitates the senior portfolio process, focuses students and faculty on learning, and gives the upper division teachers a profile of the students’ academic progress. Presenters will report on the collaboration between MCHS “Gateway” ePortfolio faculty and LaGuardia’s Liberty Partnership Program responsible for training them in the use of ePortfolios.
• Melisa Rivera, MCHS
• Felisa Brunschweig, MCHS
• Sean Galvin, LaGuardia LPP
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E147
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School of Professional Studies
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ePortfolios and Metacognition in Online Basic Research Methods
Web 2.0 tools facilitate shared knowledge, reflection, and metacognition among CUNY Online Baccalaureate students in a research methods learning community. E-Portfolio modeling encourages transfer of ownership and thoughtful self-navigation of program learning goals targeted in course objectives and assignments. Examples highlight the first tier of a scaffolded series of competencies across two research methods courses that are pre-requisites to capstone projects.
• Barbara Walters, Consortial Faculty, CUNY Online Baccalaureate
• Ellen Smiley, Academic Director of the CUNY Online
• Sarah Morgano, ePortfolio Communication Coordinator
• Kate Noel Moss, Learning Community Instructor, CUNY Online
• William Bernhardt, Consortial Faculty, CUNY Online Baccalaureate
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