Business / CS ePortfolios

ePortfolios - a representation of student work, collected to demonstrate progress, depth and breadth of accomplishment, for review and assessment

Business / CS programs and courses where ePortfolios would be appropriate

Individual courses - examples...

• CIS2 Computers and the Internet in Society community service learning ePortfolios - compendium of weekly reflections, free hosting at Edublogs.org
• Photoshop - demonstration of breadth and depth of incorporation of Photoshop features with artistic design in assignments

Certificates and Degree Programs - suggestions...

• Business Administration
• Entrepreneurship
• Web Development
• Network Administration
• Computer Systems Security
• Internet Literacy

Help and information

• Edublogs - FAQs, Forums
• WordPress.org - documentation
• WordPress for a portfolio site - way more complex than necessary to get started

Hosting

• eFolio - free for Minnesota residents, college can purchase campus-wide service and support
• edublogs - includes some administration functionality for school use

• WordPress.com - better response time, easy migration to premium service (which is still really cheap)

• Flickr - pictures, other graphic formats
• Moodle - blog, wiki - DeAnza resets courses every semester so program-long presence not possible at this time

Retention

• semester / course
• program completion
• beyond graduation  ? years, indefinitely, download, notification prior to purging

Access

• student and instructor
• classmates
• program instructors
• selective access granted - prospective employers, admissions personnel, academic reviewers

Requirements

• personalization
• program-specific framework
• text
• images
• audio / video