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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.

  1. Soropepeli Ramacake: Know, grow, and show through your portfolio

    12/16/2025

    Soropepeli Ramacake: Know, grow, and show through your portfolio

    Soropepeli Ramacake, MSW Applied, PGDip in Supervision, Dip in Counselling, BTheology works at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji as Assistant Lecturer. He is also a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. Soro uses Mahara as portfolio platform with his social work students who are on placement in various South Pacific countries, supporting them mainly from the distance. Resources Chief, I. Y., & Ramacake, S. (2025, November 11). Learners’ reflection on the use of e-Portfolio in Social Work at The University of the South Pacific. ICDE World Conference 2025, Wellington.Mock-ups for Mahara 26.04Using Mahara to demonstrate skills acquired in a hospitality workplace practicum. Presentation at Mahara Hui 2017 by Parijata Moeava and Mojito Jione (The University of the South Pacific) in Auckland, New Zealand, on 6 April 2017.Creating spaces for students to demonstrate competencies in their profession. Presentation at Mahara Hui 2017 by Irene Yee Chief, Mojito Jione and Rajneel Totaram (The University of the South Pacific) in Auckland, New Zealand, on 6 April 2017.Related episodes Sue Schibeci: Portfolios in work-integrated learning experiencesJonathan Murphy: Demonstrate skills and competenciesZala Volcic: Develop community, relationships, and compassionSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    30 min
  2. Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices

    12/02/2025

    Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices

    Associate Prof Dr Amy Cicchino, the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Central Florida and Brandi Gilbert, MPH, the Director of the Life-Health Sciences Internship Program at Indiana University Indianapolis talk about high-impact practices and how portfolios fit in. Resources Assessment InstituteHIPs in the StatesAAC&U list of high-impact practicesAAEEBL Digital Ethics Task ForceAAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios PrinciplesKuh, G.D, O’Donnell, K., & Reed, S. (2013). Ensuring quality and taking high-impact practices to scale. American Association of Colleges and Universities.Watson, C. E., Kuh, G. D., Rhodes, T. L., Penny Light, T., & Chen, H. L. (2016). Editorial: ePortfolios – The eleventh High Impact Practice. International Journal of ePortfolio, 6(2), 65–69.Kinzie, J., Silberstein, S., McCormick, A.C., Gonyea, R. M., & Dugan, B. (2021). Centering racially minoritized student voices in high-impact practices. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 53(4), 6–14IU Indianapolis ePortfolio StudioIU Indianapolis student ePortfolio showcaseElements of HIPs:Performance expectations set at appropriately high levelsSignificant investment of concentrated effort by students over an extended periodInteractions with faculty and peers about substantive mattersExperiences with diversity, wherein students are exposed to and must contend with people and circumstances that differ from those with which students are familiarFrequent, timely, and constructive feedbackOpportunities to discover relevance of learning through real-world applicationsPublic demonstration of competencePeriodic, structured opportunities to reflect and integrate learningMaking a difference for othersAgency and accomplishmentRelated episodes Christina Mayes: Portfolio support through peer mentorsMark Glynn: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfoliosSheetal J. Patel: Own your story through a portfolioChristine Dülfer: Supporting industry internshipsSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    33 min
  3. Kristina Hoeppner: Making connections and sharing the passion for portfolio work

    11/18/2025

    Kristina Hoeppner: Making connections and sharing the passion for portfolio work

    In this episode, podcast host, Kristina Hoeppner, MA, from Catalyst IT, picks out a few memorable situations from her recent trip to Europe in September and early October 2025. Resources MoodleMoot DACHMoodleMoot Global 2025KawaiiconMahara UX review 2024Mahara refresh mock-upsCPD enhancementsMahara subscription'Mahara Ask Me Anything' sessionsAMA on 25 November 2025AMA on 16/17 December 2025Subscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    12 min
  4. Antje Koenen: Engage with your students as partners through a portfolio

    11/04/2025

    Antje Koenen: Engage with your students as partners through a portfolio

    OStR'in Antje Koenen, MA, is a senior teacher for English and German at Max-Beckmann-Schule in Frankfurt a.M. in Germany. She also works for the Hessische Lehrkräfteakademie, facilitating workshops for other teachers in the use of Mahara and digital media in general, amongst other things. In this episode, Antje shares why portfolios are a central part of her teaching and learning strategy. She explains how portfolios help engage students as partners in the classroom and help create authentic learning tasks that take advantage of the students' own experiences. Resources Schulportal HessenLernbegleitungDemo site of MaharaRelated episodes Sigi Jakob-Kühn: Make students your partners in exploring portfoliosChristine Dülfer: Supporting industry internshipsSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    36 min
  5. Tessa Forshaw and Rich Braden: Unleash your innovation and creativity with a portfolio

    10/21/2025

    Tessa Forshaw and Rich Braden: Unleash your innovation and creativity with a portfolio

    Dr Tessa Forshaw, Founding Scholar of the Next Level Lab at Harvard University and Rich Braden (BSEE and BSCE), Chief Innovation Evangelist at People Rocket are the authors of the book Innovation-ish: How anyone can create breakthrough solutions to real problems in the real world. In this episode, they share what innovation and creativity mean to them, how everyone can be creative and innovative, and how the portfolio comes into play in their classes and also consulting projects. Learn about a couple of the mindsets and moves from their book and the difference between passive reflection and active metacognition. Resources Project Zero at Harvard UniversityHarvard Innovation LabsHasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, aka d.schoolIDEO CoLabClinton Global InitiativeNEOM projectBook Experiments in reflection: How to see the present, reconsider the past, and shape the future by Dr Leticia Britos CavagnaroThinking routines Related episodes Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: Make learning visibleCathy Elliott: Creativity and feedback in assessment portfoliosBob Reuter: Externalise your thinking with portfoliosIngrid D'Souza: Creativity and lifelong portfoliosSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    41 min
  6. Jack Rice: The portfolio as the space for growth in between stimulus and response

    10/07/2025

    Jack Rice: The portfolio as the space for growth in between stimulus and response

    Jack Rice, MBA, is the Director of Digital and Extended Learning at Acadia University and the Executive Director of the Maple League of Universities in Canada. In this episode, he shares stories from his various positions where he encountered portfolios and how he's changed his view on the tool and pedagogy to embrace portfolios fully and seeing them as being very important in the future of education. Resources Jack's publications on EvoLLLutionVoiceThreadAAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios: DEIBDRelated episodes Rita Zuba Prokopetz: Building a learning communityDebra Hoven: The value of self-reflection and peer feedbackDebra Hoven & Margaret Rauliuk: Disrupt the dissertation with an ePortfolioSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    48 min
  7. Christina Mayes: Portfolio support through peer mentors

    09/23/2025

    Christina Mayes: Portfolio support through peer mentors

    Christina Mayes, MSc, is the Assistant Director of Digital Support Services, including the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Lab within the Center for the Dominican Experience at Dominican University of California, U.S.A. In this episode, Christina shares how the peer mentors at Dominican support students with questions for their portfolio, career readiness, and navigating college life in general. Resources Digital portfolio support at DominicanPeer Mentor Program at DominicanAAEEBL Digital Ethics Task ForceAAEEBL ePortfolio Retreat 2024AAEEBL ePortfolio ReviewElizalde, R., Mayes, C. (2025). Reflective portfolios as a tool for community and belonging, K-12 and beyond [Presentation]. Peralta Online Equity Conference. (presentation slides)Cendon, D., Denk, K., Kuo, K., Mema, L., Nkwadi, S., Nguyen, K., Avila, P., Chen, H. L., Mayes, C., & Mize, M. (2025). Bridging the gap: Insights from student advocates and peer mentors in ePortfolio practice [Presentation]. AAC&U Conference on Learning and Student Success (CLASS), 2025 Forum on Digital Innovation, Puerto Rico.Kecia Denk's penguin radio stationChristina's portfolioRelated episodes Solena Ornelas: Set goals and achieve them with a portfolioStarlight (José) Lain-Straus: The portfolio as impactful practice for studentsKatieAnn Nguyen: Showcase your achievements in a portfolio and be proud of themArturo Flores, Jr.: The portfolio is a reflection of yourselfMatthew E. Mueller: Create and control your own narrative with a portfolioSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    34 min
  8. Bea Rodriguez-Fransen: Embrace decolonial design futures thinking in education

    09/09/2025

    Bea Rodriguez-Fransen: Embrace decolonial design futures thinking in education

    Assistant Research Professor in Principled Innovation Dr Bea Rodriguez-Fransen works at the  Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University (ASU), focusing on its Principled Innovation Infrastructure for Discovery and Engagement initiative. In early 2025, Bea published the book Education and decolonial futures in the Philippines: Perspectives for educators and practitioners in which she introduces the decolonial design futures framework that she developed. It is an extension of design thinking to suit working with Indigenous and marginalised communities better. Bea introduces the decolonial design futures framework along with the decolonial portals and related ideas in this episode, tying them in particular to reflection and how educators can make use of the techniques and frameworks that she's developed, tested, and elaborated on through her work with different communities. Additional resources Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning InnovationPrincipled innovation frameworkBea's TED World Theater talk 'Unlocking Indigenous knowledge: A new path for education'Young African Leaders InitiativeDesign Justice NetworkCostanza-Chock, S. (2020). Design justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Paulo FreireCervantes, C. L. G. (2025). The Filipino experience of Kutob: Understanding culturally-informed hyper-intuition. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies Advance Publication Archive, 113.Rank, H. (1976). Teaching about public persuasion, In: Daniel Dietrich (ed.). Teaching about doublespeak. Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English.ORID frameworkRodriguez-Fransen, B. (2024). From “Little Brown Brother” to Filipino genocide: A critical discourse analysis of the Philippine-American War’s impact on Modern Filipino colorism. Journal of Colorism Studies; Windsor Mill, 5(1), 1–22.Quimpo, N. G. (2020). Colonial name, colonial mentality and ethnocentrism. Public Policy, 4(1), 1–49.Related episodes Christine Slade and Kevin Kelly: Digital ethics principle DEIBDKevin Kelly & Kristina Hoeppner: Digital ethics principles and UDL guidelinesSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    41 min
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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.

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