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Published on: 11/1/2008
Last Visited: 11/21/2008
Helen Chen, EPAC co-facilitator and Research Scientist, Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning
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Moderator (Helen): Welcome everyone!
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Moderator (Helen): Hello Trent!
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Moderator (Helen): Great to have you with us, Kevin!
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KevinKelly-SFState: Thanks, Helen.
Great to be here.
I have a meeting with some Stanford folks at 11, but I am looking forward to it.
Ruth Cox wishes she could be here, but is at the WCET conference in Phoenix today.
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Moderator (Helen): Welcome Lisa! and Una, great to see you as well.
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Moderator (Helen): Welcome Mike!
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KevinKelly-SFState: Helen, since this is my first ePAC chat, is there a protocol?
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Moderator (Helen): We are hoping to resume our regular EPAC chats and webcasts on a monthly basis.
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Moderator (Helen): So the cool thing about these EPAC chats, Kevin is that there isn't any protocol at all!
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Trent: Helen: do you have something brief to say about the article?
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Moderator (Helen): A transcript will be posted later so you can catch up on the various conversation streams.
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Moderator (Helen): Welcome Teggin!
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Moderator (Helen): Building on Lisa's comment, I would agree that we could broaden this beyond liberal ed to gen ed, other programs, etc.
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Moderator (Helen): Betsy, what were their concerns?
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Moderator (Helen): Mike, of course some would say that having that conversation is a good thing.
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Moderator (Helen): Betsy, that may be true but what does it really say about the student, his/her learning?
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Moderator (Helen): Mike, you raise a good point about stakeholders, who else on campus needs to be a part of this conversation in order to have a successful implementation.
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Moderator (Helen): Kevin, do you have a link or reference?
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Moderator (Helen): Mike, I will send a reference to Spelman's spel.e.folio -- they actually have a map of their stakeholders that might be useful to take a look at
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Betsy DeGeorge: Helen - the value of the eportolio is unquestionably greater but at a great price of time and effort for both student and faculty.
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Moderator (Helen): That sounds like a great approach Lisa.
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Moderator (Helen): What would be some strategies to get faculty buy-in?
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KevinKelly-SFState: Helen, the pilots are a good way to start, but there has to be a plan to go along with it.
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Moderator (Helen): Kevin, have the pilots been useful in fostering faculty buy-in?
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KevinKelly-SFState: Helen, in some cases yes, especially when they were all involved at the beginning (e.g., this semester ALL 5 Liberal Studies faculty met with us several times (and in the summer too) to prepare for their pilot roll out)
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Moderator (Helen): Before I forget -- SpEL.Folio: http://www.spelman.edu/wcenter/cwp/EFOLIO PAGES/Efolio index.html and http://campustechnology.com/articles/41320 - What Is the Purpose of an Electronic Portfolio?
Is the Answer the Key to Your Successful Implementation?
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Moderator (Helen): Lisa, you also mentioned some IT challenges ... what do you currently have in place?
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Moderator (Helen): Kapi'olani is also a member of the International Coalition on ePortfolio Research which has a book coming out soon - http://www.ncepr.org
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Moderator (Helen): Lisa, you raise an important concern.
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Moderator (Helen): Or as Betsy mentioned earlier, perhaps there's value in introducing the concept of the portfolio and to let the actual uploading, etc. happen while students on campus.
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Una: Helen, there is an interest new eport organizer product called airset that works over cell phones as well as computers (you do need internet access from your cell phone).
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Moderator (Helen): Lisa, you've probably also looked at LaGuardia which has computer labs on campus for students to do their ePortfolio work (mainly web pages using artifacts collected via their BB CMS)
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Moderator (Helen): Una, do you have a link for airset?
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Moderator (Helen): Lisa, how was the EiFeL conference?
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Una: Helen, here is the link to airset http://www.airset.com/, lots of intriguing new ideas in this product.
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Moderator (Helen): Kevin is there more faculty buy in as a result since the tool is then tailored to their specific needs?
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Moderator (Helen): What are the IT challenges?
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KevinKelly-SFState: Helen, I would say that the faculty buy-in probably would not change much if they had fewer choices in terms of tools, as long as it is easy to use and they have support for themselves and their students.
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Lisa: Thanks, Helen.
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Moderator (Helen): Betsy, it seems like what you've described is not a tool that can do all of these things -- it's the conversation that needs to happen among all stakeholders.
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Moderator (Helen): Link to article Una mentioned from EQ: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0224.pdf
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Moderator (Helen): Everyone -- it's 11 a.m./12 p.m./1 p.m./2 p.m. now and I want to be respectful of people's time.
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Moderator (Helen): Lisa, Trent -- I may follow up with you on ideas, possible articles, websites for a web 2.0 and eportfolios chat.
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Moderator (Helen): Okay - keep me posted on that Una.
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Moderator (Helen): Betsy, by learning to read do you mean learning how to grade/score ePortfolios?
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Moderator (Helen): Una, do you have any references for that instructor?
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Moderator (Helen): Betsy, please clarify if you can since we're confused!
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Moderator (Helen): Okay that helps.
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Moderator (Helen): I'm thinking maybe we'll need to do a session on rubrics.
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