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Portfolios for learning and more brought to you by the Mahara team at Catalyst IT. Host Kristina Hoeppner talks with portfolio practitioners, researchers, learning designers, students, and others about their portfolio story.
Episodes
58 episodes
Fergus Green: The portfolio is a bit like jazz
Associate Professor Dr Fergus Green from University College London (UCL) talks in this episode about why he started working with portfolios in his political science classes, what he has learned, and how he can be...
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Episode 57
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24:34
Candyce Reynolds & Sonja Taylor: Hashtags, social media, and portfolios
Professor Dr Candyce Reynolds, Director of University Foundations (General Education) at Boise State University, and Dr Sonja Taylor, Director of Senior Inquiry at Portland Sta...
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Episode 56
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31:43
Tom Worthington: Teach portfolios without the lingo
Honorary Senior Lecturer Tom Worthington, MEd FHEA FACS CP, from The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia, teaches computer science students. He uses authentic learning tasks, in particula...
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Episode 55
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36:03
Cathy Elliott: Have fun, be flexible, and encourage feedback in your portfolio
Professor Dr Cathy Elliott is Vice Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College London (UCL), UK. She teaches a political science class on nature and supports over 1,000...
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Episode 54
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36:33
Jonathan Murphy: Demonstrate skills and competencies
Jonathan Murphy, FCA, is Head of the Apprenticeship Department at Griffith College in Ireland and is passionate about portfolios for his degree apprentices but would also take it beyond his own department. ...
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Episode 53
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39:00
Sheetal J. Patel: Own your story through a portfolio
Dr Sheetal J. Patel from the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab (ILPL) at Stanford University wears several hats besides the one of being founding member and contr...
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Episode 52
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25:43
Patsie Polly: Authentic assessment tasks in biomedical research
Professor Dr Patsie Polly (SFHEA), Director and Fellow of the UNSW Scientia Education Academy at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has been using portfolios in biomedical sciences since 2011/1...
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Episode 51
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23:38
Zala Volcic: Develop community, relationships, and compassion
Associate Professor Dr Zala Volcic is Director of Teaching Innovation within the Faculty of Arts at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She shares how her students in the Bachelor of Media Communication (...
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Episode 50
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38:06
Derrin Kent: Portfolios in degree apprenticeships
In this episode, Derrin Kent, Founder of The Development Manager (TDM) in the UK, talks about how his company supports degree apprentices on their learning journey with portfolios. He detail...
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Episode 49
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35:07
Allison Miller: The portfolio is a process
Allison Miller, MLD, Director and Lead Consultant at Digital Capability in Adelaide, Australia, talks about her passion: ePortfolios. She also leads the ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee t...
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Episode 48
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36:02
Amanda B. Wallace & Kylie Pugh: The portfolio as well-being tool
Assistant Professor at Tallahassee State College Amanda B. Wallce, MA, and Kylie Pugh, MA, Adjunct Faculty at the University of West Florida and Customer Success Manager at Instructure talk about their experience with portfolios that they desig...
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Episode 47
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56:25
Mario A. Peraza: Use AI to help curate your digital presence
Mario A. Peraza just completed his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering - Design Methodology at Stanford University and was a student ambassador and intern at the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab (ILPL) at the university where he taugh...
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Episode 46
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29:16
Shari Bowker: Establish good feedback practices in your portfolio
Shari Bowker, MEd, is Learning Designer (ePortfolios) at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. There she works in the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI) and supports educators university wide with implementing...
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Episode 45
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39:10
Mark Glynn: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfolios
Dr Mark Glynn, PFHEA, now Head of Business Development for EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) at Catalyst IT Europe, used to be the Head of the Teaching Enhancement Unit at Dublin City Universit...
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Episode 44
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42:56
Mark Brady: Journal regularly for profound insight
Mark Brady is a student studying in the Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Disruptive Technologies programme at Dublin City University in Ireland. He's had a successful career as videographer, but during the pandemic decided to fulfil one of...
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Episode 43
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28:13
Annemarie Galeucia & Boz Bowles: Create a portfolio and get a medal for it
Dr 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, support...
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Episode 42
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46:22
Debra Hoven & Margaret Rauliuk: Disrupt the dissertation with an ePortfolio
Dr Debra Hoven and Margaret Rauliuk, dissertation mentor and student team at Athabasca University in Canada, talk about the trials and tribulations but also the joy in creating a portfolio as alternative to the Doctor in Education monograph. Th...
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Episode 41
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34:47
Debra Hoven: The value of self-reflection and peer feedback
Dr Debra Hoven is an educator at Athabasca University in Canada, teaching and researching primarily in the Master in Education in Open, Digital, and Distance Education and in the Doctorate in Education programme. She has a long history with por...
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Episode 40
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36:08
Derrin Kent: Skills Bootcamps using portfolios
Derrin Kent is Founder and Managing Director of The Development Manager (TDM) in the UK. He has been incorporating portfolios into apprenticeships and Skills Bootcamps since the late 2000s, giving learners better opportunities to secure and the...
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Episode 39
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34:21
Jamie Fulcher: Portfolio boot camp for educators
Senior Learning Designer Jamie Fulcher, MEd (University of Newcastle) has been using portfolios since about 2008. She developed a highly effective boot camp for educators to get exposed to the practice and experience it themselves to better sup...
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Episode 38
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17:32
Brian Williams: CIA and portfolios
Brian Williams, BTech, is Security Operations Supervisor at Catalyst IT shares why information security is an important consideration for people creating and working with portfolios. He explains the acronym CIA (confidentiality, integrity, avai...
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Episode 37
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27:31
The wunderkammer: Metaphors in portfolio practice
Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT), host of this podcast, delves into metaphors used to explain how to work with portfolios in this solo episode. This is the first short episode in a new series that will be published throughout the year in which s...
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Episode 36
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12:43
Ruth Cox & Kevin Kelly: Grow and nurture the portfolio through the framework of ePorticulture
Dr Ruth Cox and Dr Kevin Kelly, pioneers of ePortfolios at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in the U.S.A. share their metaphor of 'ePorticulture' and how the gardening metaphor works well to convey the cycle of work that is involved when y...
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Episode 35
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41:25
Kevin Kelly & Kristina Hoeppner: Digital ethics principles and UDL guidelines
In June 2023, the 'Think UDL' podcast episode 'Digital ethics in ePortfolios with Kristina Hoeppner and Kevin Kelly' went live. In it, Lillian Nave (Appalachian State University) interviewed Dr Kevin Kelly (San Francisco State University) and K...
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Episode 34
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1:03:32
Kathleen Blake Yancey: Heuristics for meaningful portfolios
Dr Kathleen Blake Yancey (Emerita Professor at Florida State University) has contributed to ePortfolio research and practice for many years through her numerous publications, presentations, and workshops. In this interview she looks back at som...
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Episode 33
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38:38