
Sofia Colabella & Alberto Pugnale: A blueprint for working with portfolios with architecture students
09/12/23 • 35 min
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.
Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.
Connect with
Resources
- Article in 'Frontiers in Education': 'Supporting the journey of architecture students towards graduation through a design ePortfolio'
- Flipped classroom model of teaching
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principle 'Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Decolonization' (DEIBD)
- Sofia's website
- Alberto's website
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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
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.
Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.
Connect with
Resources
- Article in 'Frontiers in Education': 'Supporting the journey of architecture students towards graduation through a design ePortfolio'
- Flipped classroom model of teaching
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principle 'Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Decolonization' (DEIBD)
- Sofia's website
- Alberto's website
Subscribe 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
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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.
Connect with
Resources
- Paul's website
- Wolfgang's academic bio and research
- AISOP project website (in German) - AI-Supported Observations of E-Portfolios
Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.
Subscribe 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
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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.
Connect with Ricardo on Mastodon
Resources
- Digital portfolios at San Francisco Unified School District
- San Francisco Unified School District podcast 'Stories from the digital learning field' and slides
- Slides for 'Towards a culturally responsive multimedia digital portfolio'
- Stephen Harlow's episode on digital storytelling: 'Tell your story through your portfolio'
- Leticia Britos Cavagnaro's episode on reflection and her AI chatbot Riff: 'Make learning visible'
- Megan Mize's workshop on AI tools
- Zaretta Hammond's 'Ready For Rigor' Framework
- PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification by KQED Teach
- KQED youth media challenge
Subscribe 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
Create. Share. Engage. - Sofia Colabella & Alberto Pugnale: A blueprint for working with portfolios with architecture students
Transcript
Kristina Hoeppner 00:05
Welcome to 'Create. Share. Engage.' This is the podcast about portfolios for learning and more for educators, learning designers, and managers keen on integrating portfolios with their education and professional development practices. 'Create. Share. Engage.' is brought to you by the Mahara team at Catalyst IT. My name is Kristina Hoeppner.
Kristina Hoeppner 00:28
Today I'm speaking with two architects. And no, I'm no
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