Making Connections Community

Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virginia, will host the 2nd AAEEBL Southeast US eFolio Conference: ePortfolios Focused On Learning and Integrative Online Thinking

7-8 November 2011

http://eportfolio.vt.edu/aaeebl/home.html

 

Proposal Deadline: September 12, 2011

 

AAEEBL Southeast US eFolio Conference: ePortfolios Focused On Learning and Integrative Online Thinking

Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA

7-8 November 2011

http://eportfolio.vt.edu/aaeebl/home.html

http://www.aaeebl.org/southeast2011

 

Virginia Tech will host the AAEEBL Southeast US eFolio conference in Blacksburg, VA. The conference serves to bring together portfolio thinkers from across the world to the Southeast region of the United States with an opportunity to create community-generated portfolio scholarship. Sponsored in part by the Electronic Campus of Virginia (ECVA), the conference themes revolve around learning and integrative thinking.

Keynote speaker: Dr. Bret Eynon, Director of the LaGuardia Center for Teaching and Learning and founding Director of the Making Connections National Resource Center on Inquiry, Reflection, and Integrative Education.

Workshop Leaders:

• Teddi Fishman, Director of International Center for Academic Integrity, Clemson University
• Kate McConnell, Assistant Director of the Office of Academic Assessment, Virginia Tech
• C. Edward Watson, Associate Director of the Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research, Virginia Tech
• Bret Eynon, Director of the LaGuardia Center for Teaching and Learning and founding Director of the Making Connections National Resource Center on Inquiry, Reflection, and Integrative Education
• Debbie Lord, Director of Student Learning Evidence, Central Piedmont Community College
• Marc Zaldivar & Teggin Summers, Director & Assistant Director of Pedagogy for ePortfolio Initiatives, Virginia Tech
• Gardner Campbell, Director of Professional Development and Innovative Initiatives, Virginia Tech

Proposal Deadline: September 12, 2011

Submit proposals at http://tinyurl.com/aaeeblseproposal

Early Bird Registration Deadline: October 19, 2011

Register at http://metalearning.americommerce.com/store/c/21-AAEEBL-Conferences.aspx

Portfolio activities present moments for reflection, opportunities to pose and answer questions about our experiences, and spaces to draw connections across courses, programs, and professional communities. The AAEEBL Southeast US eFolio Conference offers a place to be present to all of these opportunities, to come together as a portfolio community to pose and answer our own questions about how to best foster active learning, authentic reflections, and integrative thinking.

Conference activities are community-oriented:

Two day-long series of workshops, including sessions on

• ePortfolio adoption and scale-up models
• portfolio activities that promote reflection and integrative thinking
• student-centered assessment activities
• connections between eLearning, social networking, and digital citizenry and others
• Experts from across the country will lead these workshops.
• An open symposium of student portfolios
• Traditional opportunities for presentations of scholarship