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Published on: 11/1/2008
Last Visited: 11/21/2008
"Education and the Next President" was a live debate that took place Oct. 21, 2008 at Teachers College, Columbia University, between Linda Darling-Hammond, education adviser to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, and Lisa Graham Keegan, education adviser to Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
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KevinKelly-SFState: The debate between Lisa Graham Keegan (McCain Campaign) and Linda Darling-Hammond (Obama Campaign) mentioned ePortfolios alot.
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Lisa: We are looking at having our faculty define their curriculum projects and activities and connect them to our gen ed req's.
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Moderator (Helen): That sounds like a great approach Lisa.
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KevinKelly-SFState: Lisa and Mike, those sound like good approaches.
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Lisa: I think pilot projects might work well on our campus.
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Lisa: One of our MnSCU (Minnesota State Colleges and Universities) campuses is using Awards of Excellence funds to dangle a carrot.
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Moderator (Helen): Lisa, you also mentioned some IT challenges ... what do you currently have in place?
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Lisa: While we have wonderful IT resources on campus, our internet connectivity and accessibility off campus can cause some problems.
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Moderator (Helen): Lisa, you raise an important concern.
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Lisa: eFolio Minnesota, as a state-wide--and now expanding nationally and internationally--works wonderfully well!
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Lisa: I appreciate it even more after attending the EiFEL ePortfolio conference in October which had a whole track geared toward interoperability ...
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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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Lisa: LaGuardia's work is spectacular!
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Moderator (Helen): Lisa, how was the EiFeL conference?
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Lisa: The European countries are working toward a regional approach to ePortfolios and have really invested in the idea of using them as career labor market tools.
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Lisa: eFolio can be licensed on an individual basis.
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Lisa: Thanks, Helen.
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Lisa: We are pretty lucky in MN to have a team our of our system office (MnSCU) who provide training--including institutional portfolios for accreditation purposes--and a 24/7 help desk to assist with any technical issues.
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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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Lisa: Thanks everyone!