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    Create. Share. Engage.

    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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    Episodes (40)

    Derrin Kent: Skills Bootcamps using portfolios

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

    Jamie Fulcher: Portfolio boot camp for educators

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

    Brian Williams: CIA and portfolios

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

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

    The wunderkammer: Metaphors in portfolio practice

    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 she explores concepts and ideas around portfolio practice.

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

    Ruth Cox & Kevin Kelly: Grow and nurture the portfolio through the framework of ePorticulture

    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 you create a portfolio.

    We go back to the roots of their portfolio initiative, what they have achieved, and where portfolios are at today at SFSU.

    Go to the episode notes for the links to resources, the transcript, and chapter markers.

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

    Digital ethics principles and UDL guidelines

    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 Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT) on the AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios in relation to the Universal Design for Learning guidelines. This is a re-post of the episode. Many thanks to Lillian for making it happen.

    Go to the episode notes for the links to resources, the transcript, and chapter markers.

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

    Kathleen Blake Yancey: Heuristics for meaningful portfolios

    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 some of that practice, with a particular focus on portfolio heuristics and how they differ from templates.

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

    Terrel L. Rhodes: The portfolio as a mode to engage students in learning

    Terrel L. Rhodes: The portfolio as a mode to engage students in learning

    Dr Terrel (Terry) Rhodes is Distinguished Fellow at AAC&U and can look back at a long history of working with portfolios, establishing the VALUE rubrics, tying portfolios to assessment and employability, and supporting many institutions in their portfolio journey.

    In this interview, Terry touches on many of these areas, highlighting the importance of digital ethics, student control, authenticity, and the need for integrative practice.

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

    Sigi Jakob-Kühn: Make students your partners in exploring portfolios

    Sigi Jakob-Kühn: Make students your partners in exploring portfolios

    Oberstudienrätin (Senior Teacher) Sieglinde Jakob-Kühn taught in the German school system for many years and discovered Mahara a few years after having started working with Moodle in an innovative way with her language students. In this interview, Sigi shares a few anecdotes from her active teaching time, showing how students took to the ePortfolio in the mid 2000s, exploring this new technology with her in partnership.

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

    Mike Joiner-Hill: Represent yourself through a portfolio

    Mike Joiner-Hill: Represent yourself through a portfolio

    Mike Joiner-Hill, MSW, is Associate Director of Career Coaching and Education - Humanities & Sciences, in Stanford Career Education and works in the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab alongside Helen L. Chen. In his interview, Mike explains why a portfolio is a useful way to represent yourself when thinking about your career. He also looks far into the future and predicts a new kind of portfolio.

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

    Kristina Hoeppner: A year of interviews in review

    Kristina Hoeppner: A year of interviews in review

    Podcast host Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT) looks back at a year of interviewing portfolio practitioners and researchers for 'Create. Share. Engage.' She shares common insights and recurring themes.

    If you'd like to share your story, get in touch.

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    Podcast guests in order of their quotes in the episode
    Mandia Mentis, Bob Reuter, Ingrid D'Souza, Stephen Harlow, Paul Libbrecht, Wendy Holly-Boen, Andrea Ghoneim, Teresa MacKinnon, Edd Bolton, Kate Mitchell, Ricard Elizalde, Megan Mize, Misty Kirby, Amy Cicchino, Sam Taylor, John Ittelson, Sarah Zurhellen, Bobbi Kamil, Paul Raper, Christine Dülfer, Bas Bakker, Christine Slade, Wolfgang Müller, Lisa Donaldson, Kevin Kelly, Helen L. Chen, Rita Zuba Prokopetz, Orna Farrell, Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Cathy Elliott, Alberto Pugnale, Sofia Colabella, Maia Miller, Martin Dougiamas

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

    Ricardo Elizalde: See the whole student and their learning journey

    Ricardo Elizalde: See the whole student and their learning journey

    Dr Ricardo Elizalde is a Digital Learning Partner at San Francisco Unified School District and has been working with portfolios for over two decades. He creates portfolios for himself and supports students and teachers create them in his school district.

    We talk about his personal portfolio experience, how he assists people in his learning community, and also creates department level and group portfolios.

    Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.

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

    Sofia Colabella & Alberto Pugnale: A blueprint for working with portfolios with architecture students

    Sofia Colabella & Alberto Pugnale: A blueprint for working with portfolios with architecture students

    Dr Sofia Colabella and Dr Alberto Pugnale work at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP) of The University of Melbourne in Australia. They have been working with design portfolios for many years, and recently introduced an ePortfolio into their classes. This helped them discover how powerful the medium and practice can be, in particular in getting to know their students as persons.

    Their findings can be applied to other study programmes and are a wonderful way to engage with students through scaffolding the portfolio practice yet leave enough space for them to bring in their own personalities.

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

    Paul Libbrecht and Wolfgang Müller: Support your portfolio learning with AI

    Paul Libbrecht and Wolfgang Müller: Support your portfolio learning with AI

    Professor Dr Paul Libbrecht (International University of Applied Science) and Professor Dr Wolfgang Müller (PH Weingarten) are members of the AISOP project, coordinated by PH Weingarten, University of Education Weingarten, in Germany. They research how to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) well into the portfolio process to support students and lecturers.

    In this episode we talk about why they love portfolios, what role they want AI to play in the portfolio process, and what challenges they face.

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

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    Paul Raper: Make the portfolio a habit that is serving you

    Paul Raper: Make the portfolio a habit that is serving you

    Paul Raper, MSc, is a former engineer turned linguist who studied Teaching English for Specific Purposes at Aston University in the UK with corpus linguistics as his primary subject. Paul now teaches English to engineers at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and uses the ePortfolio as his primary coaching tool.


    In this episode, Paul shares his practice of using SWITCHportfolio, a Mahara-based site for Swiss institutions of higher education, for his own portfolios as well as with student groups, encouraging collaboration and feedback giving.

    Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.

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    Special Interest Group ePortfolio at eduhub by SWITCH

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

    Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: Make learning visible

    Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: Make learning visible

    Dr Leticia Britos Cavagnaro is the co-Founder and co-Director of the University Innovation Fellows, a programme of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford University. Leticia uses emerging technologies to empower learners to be self-directed, action-oriented, and reflective shapers of the future.

    In this episode, she shares her view on why reflection is important, how to scaffold its practice for learners, and how to incorporate it into every learning experience. She talks about her upcoming book 'Experiments in reflection', published by Penguin Random House, and her recently published Riff chatbot.

    Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.

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

    Stephen Harlow: Tell your story through your portfolio

    Stephen Harlow: Tell your story through your portfolio

    Stephen Harlow is a Learning Designer at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato The University of Waikato, in Aotearoa New Zealand where he supports students and lecturers via Te Puna Ako - Centre for Tertiary Teaching and Learning (CeTTL). He's been introduced to digital storytelling in the early 2000s and has been using it since then for himself and in his teaching.

    Digital storytelling is a wonderful method to use in portfolios to tell your learning story.

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

    Andrea Ghoneim: Learn transversal skills through portfolios

    Andrea Ghoneim: Learn transversal skills through portfolios

    Dr Andrea Ghoneim is eDeveloper - Digital Teaching Services at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business). She has gained extensive experience using and researching portfolios through her participation in EU-funded projects, in particular EUfolio, Europortfolio, and ATS 2020 when she worked at Donau-Universität Krems (Danube University Krems). Recently, she co-edited a white  paper on assessment strategies, in which portfolios featured.

    Andrea takes us back to these projects, their aims, their approach, and what the benefits of using portfolios were.

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

    Bob Reuter: Externalise your thinking with portfolios

    Bob Reuter: Externalise your thinking with portfolios

    Dr Bob Reuter is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education and Social Work at University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg where he has taught courses relating to educational psychology, educational technology, and educational research, in particular in the Bachelor en Sciences de l'Éducation / Bachelor of Science in Education (BScE) since 2004.

    Bob is a technology enthusiast and explores how all technology, not just educational technology can benefit students in their learning. He uses a social constructivist approach to teaching and learning for which he thinks portfolios are very well suited.

    In this episode, he talks about the two different types of portfolios the future school teachers of Letzebuerg encounter during their studies and how they help in the learning process.

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

    Helen L. Chen: Reflect through conversation to tell your story

    Helen L. Chen: Reflect through conversation to tell your story

    Dr Helen Chen (Stanford University) is a long-time champion of ePortfolio practice and has been involved in many initiatives and organisations such as EPAC, AAEEBL, and the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab at Stanford University. She takes us through some of the early days of ePortfolios, why the portfolio practice is not just an ed tech fad and how the practice benefits students in many different situations to reflect on their practice and tell their story.

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

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