Stephen Harlow: Tell your story through your portfolio

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07/18/23 • 32 min

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.
Connect with Stephen

Resources

The Mastodon post that started it all.
Flexible Learning Leaders in New Zealand
StoryCenter, formerly, the Center for Digital Storytelling
BBC's 'Capture Wales'
BBC Micro; GBP235 in today's money is GBP861 (NZD1,787 / USD1,090)
Helen Barrett's WCELFest keynote 'Balancing the two faces of ePortfolios: Reflection and assessment' in 2015
DS106 - Digital Storytelling 106
MyPortfolio: Mahara sites for schools in Aotearoa New Zealand

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

Resources

The Mastodon post that started it all.
Flexible Learning Leaders in New Zealand
StoryCenter, formerly, the Center for Digital Storytelling
BBC's 'Capture Wales'
BBC Micro; GBP235 in today's money is GBP861 (NZD1,787 / USD1,090)
Helen Barrett's WCELFest keynote 'Balancing the two faces of ePortfolios: Reflection and assessment' in 2015
DS106 - Digital Storytelling 106
MyPortfolio: Mahara sites for schools in Aotearoa New Zealand

Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.

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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.
Connect with Andrea

Resources

Andrea's research publications
ATS 2020 project website and ATS 2020 resource website
ATS 2020: Tools and technology for assessment of transversal skills (Andrea's work pacakge)
BeInSpired: Video about ATS2020
'EUfolio: A classroom ePortfolio pilot project', book chapter by Ben Murray and Sinéad Tuohy
White paper 'Digital Assessment in Higher Education: Perspectives of a European Community of Practice'

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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.
Connect with Leticia

Resources

Blog post introducing Riff: 'Reflecting with AI: A Tool to Develop Human Intelligence'
Enchatted, company that did the technical work on Riff
'Teaching & Learning' programme at the d.school
Bulk discounts of 'Experiments in Reflection'
Full d.school series of books at a discounted price for the set

Reflective frameworks mentioned

'What? So what? Now what?' by Terry Borton
'I Used to Think... Now I Think...' by Harvard University's Project Zero

Scholars mentioned

Ellen J. Langer: 'The Power of Mindful Learning' (1997)
Guy Claxton: 'Learning to Learn – The Fourth Generation: Making Sense of Personalised Learning' (2006)
Gavriel Salomon, David Perkins, and Tamar Globerson: 'Partners in Cognition: Extending Human Intelligence with Intelligent Technologies' (1991)
Erica Estrada-Liou, MBA
Meenu Singh, MS

Create. Share. Engage. - Stephen Harlow: Tell your story through your portfolio

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 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 00:27

Today I'm speaking with Stephen Harlow, who is a Learning Des