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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, supporting students before effective communicators.

In this episode, Annemarie and Boz talk about the evolution of the program in which portfolios play a crucial role and discuss how and why the portfolio component has changed over time and how the team supports students.

A cool thing about the programme? Students receive an actual medal upon graduation.

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Annemarie Galeucia on LinkedInBoz Bowles on LinkedInResources
Distinguished Communicator Medal Program at LSUArticle 'Using ePortfolios to Help Students Reframe, Reflect, and Integrate Their Learning' by Annemarie Galeucia, Boz Bowles, Jennifer Baumgartner, and Rebecca Burdette in the special ePortfolio issue of 'Across the Disciplines'Article 'High-Impact Practices and Third Spaces: Connecting across Disciplines' by Morgan Gresham, Megan Mize, and Sarah Zurhellen in 'Across the Disciplines'
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

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. They share how their work contributes to opening doors for other types of dissertations and what they have learned along the way besides why Margaret wanted to create a portfolio in the first place.

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Debra on LinkedInMargaret on Hylo and on X (formerly Twitter)Resources
Margaret's research seminar portfolioSelected publications of MargaretDebra's podcast episode 'The value of self-reflection and peer feedback'Debra's professional interests and publicationsOn Ecological Constructivism: Hoven, D. & Palalas, A. (2011). (Re)Conceptualizing Design Approaches for Mobile Language Learning. Special Issue of CALICO Journal: CALL Research in Canada. 28(3).2018 Canadian Association for Graduate Studies Taskforce on the DoctorateCarnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)Other doctoral portfolio projects (not mentioned in the episode; added here for further exploration)Dr Kathryn Coleman's 'An a/r/tist in Wonderland: Exploring identity, creativity and digital portfolios as a/r/tographer'Presentation 'Doctoral ePortfolios: Can a dissertation be an ePortfolio?' by Mandi Mizuta, Sheila Mulooly, Melissa Shaquid Pirie, and Candyce Reynolds (Portland State University) in 2021Debra's Technology Demonstrators Community of Practice Event on portfolios in March 2024Sandra Styres's book 'Pathways for remembering and recognizing Indigenous thought in education''Joyce's Principle'Heiltsuk NationEsquimalt Nationlək̓ʷəŋən Traditional TerritorySubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios.

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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

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 portfolios and shares one aspect of her research and practice in this interview, the autoethnographic video project that some of her MEd students engaged in to reflect on their own learning in the programme and help students coming after them get a head start.

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Resources
Presentation 'What I know now that I wish I'd known then: A photo(video) voice collaborative autoethnographic study of student ePortfolio creation' at the 2023 Eportfolio Forum (shortened peer-reviewed paper)Hoven, D., Walsh, P., Al-Tawil, R., & Zuba Prokopetz, R.:  Exploring professional development needs and strategies for instructors/faculty facilitating ePortfolios online, Irish JTEL 2021Debra's Technology Demonstrators Community of Practice Event on portfolios in March 2024Master in Education in Open, Digital, and Distance Education at Athabasca UniversityDebra's professional interests and publicationsSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios.

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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

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 then succeed in their jobs.

In this episode, we talk specifically about the Skills Bootcamps and how the portfolio works in them.

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Resources
TDM's Skills BootcampsUK's Department of Education information on Skills BootcampsRichard W. Hand , Glenys G. Bradbury , Derrin M. Kent, and Margaret A. Kent (2010). Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's guideRichard Hand, Thomas W. Bell, and Derrin M. Kent (2012). Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's guideDavid Kolb's reflective learning cycleLev Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (ZPD)Jerome Bruner's scaffolding of learningPedagogy, andragogy, and heutagogySmartEvidence presentation and new feature videoPeter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel (2014).
Make it stick: The science of successful learningSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios.

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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

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 support their own students. In this episode, Jamie shares the blueprint for this boot camp and outlines why she gamified the professional development opportunity.

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Jamie's presentation 'Developing a Mahara boot camp for educators' at Mahara Hui in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, in 2017Trailer for the boot campSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios.

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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

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, availability) and highlights a few stories that illustrate why data privacy needs to be a fundamental consideration for portfolio creators.

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MaharaAAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios PrinciplesGDPRWhat is a SOC?The CIA triad: Definition, components, and examplesSubscribe 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