ePortfolios

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Stony Brook University

What an ePortfolio Is and Is Not

an ePortfolio is

• a tool to highlight and showcase the best of your academic work, extracurricular activities, work experience, service to community and how those experiences have helped grow and learn.
• a way to showcase your best work and interests in all areas of your life for personal and professional development.
• a way to give dimension to your resume and document proof of your work, knowledge and  skills to future employers and/or graduate school.  Can be used as a personal marketing tool for professional branding purposes.
• An integrative learning and assessment strategy to connect program and interdisciplinary learning outcomes.
• a teaching and/or research showcase for promotion, tenure, and professional development.
• a learning strategy that facilitates life’s transitions and helps you connect your tacit and explicit knowledge and experiences for a lifetime.

an ePortfolio is not

• informal social networking. It’s not a professional Facebook. You reflect and make connection between your academic work, your career, and other interests. It’s a thinking style that connects all areas of your life, past, present, and future.
• a file storage site only.
• only used for a personal website or blog. Though website and blog components are present, an eportfolio is a collection of knowledge and skill connections between the academic, career, service, and personal area of the owner’s life.
• another Blackboard or learning management system.  Folio thinking completes the learning process.  Students collect and select (upload) their work in the electronic pages (as they do in Blackboard), but they continue the process through reflection as they connect what they’ve learned to the next learning level  and other courses and activities (present and past) outside the classroom.

Important Stony Brook ePortfolio Websites

• SBU Model ePortfolio Examples – https://stonybrook.digication.com/sbu_eportfolios
  a train-the-trainer tool with examples of model eportfolios used in the various disciplines
• Connections and Reflections – https://stonybrook.digication.com/sbu_eportfolio

an eportfolio of pilot year (2010-11)

• SBU ePortfolio Newsletter – https://stonybrook.digication.com/sbu_eportfolio_news
  a semester update on eportfolio use at Stony Brook University
• Connect to Learning (Making Connections) – Stony Brook Campus ePortfolio
   https://c2l.digication.com/stony_brook_university_project_eportfolio