ePortfolios @ LaGuardia

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• ePortfolios _at_ LaGuardia
• What, Why How?

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What is an ePortfolio?

• An opportunity to effectively represent yourself
  and your education
• A place to collect and save coursework
• A chance to showcase accomplishments and school
  work to family and friends
• A tool for creating digital resumes to send to
  employers
• A web portal for accessing your work, track your
  academic growth and plan your career
• A portal that helps connect educational goals
  with personal experience
• An electronic resource you can use to apply for
  transfer and financial aid at a four year school
• A chance to reflect on your education, to make
  connections between where you are and where you
  want to be, and,
• A record of your skills, achievements and learning

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What can you put in an ePortfolio?

• Course work research projects, essays,
  internship reports, business plans,
  accounting/cost-benefit graphs, reflections,
  teaching philosophy statements, graduation plans,
  professional development plans, etc.
• Multimedia files video clips, audio clips,
  graphic files, visual art designs, photos, etc.
• Documents Word, Excel, Powerpoint Presentations,
  PDFs,etc.
• Social media artifacts blogs, websites, tweets,
  FB posts, discussion exchange, etc.
• HTML links, CSS scripts, etc.

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Why ePortfolio?

• To deepen student learning and engagement

LaGuardias approach is integrative in the sense
that it highlights helping students connect their
learning across disciplines and semesters, and
helping them link their academic learning with
their lived experience of work, family, and
community life.
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Why ePortfolio?

• To help students stay on track with their
  educational goals and achieve their graduation
  plans on time

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Why ePortfolio?

• To engage students in discussion of advising and
  transfer issues based on students educational
  and career plans.

The goal is to make ePortfolio as an advisement
instrument to support the successful transfer of
our students to senior colleges and/or have
gainful employment.
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Why ePortfolio?

• For Transfer and Employment

LaGuardias ePortfolios help students to examine
and reflect on their learning and career goals.
This eases the transition from LaGuardia to the
worlds of work and advanced education. More and
more employers are starting to use ePortfolios
instead of resumes. For more information about
transfer, please visit http//www.lagcc.cuny.edu
/transfercenter/
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Why ePortfolio?

• For Program assessment

All colleges and universities examine teaching
practice and student learning in order to improve
the education provided to students. At LaGuardia,
this process is called Program Assessment.
And we do it, in part, with evidence of learning
students upload in their ePortfolios and in the
Program Assessment area of the ePortfolio system.
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How to create your eportfolio?

• We have step-by-step and easy to follow tutorials
  for your convenience

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• We also provide face-to-face help and assistance
• Log-in problems please contact
  StudentHelp_at_lagcc.cuny.edu using your LIVE
  Student e-mail account or call 718-482-6134 or
  visit us in MB 57
• ePortfolio development and peer mentoring with
  the ePortfolio Consultants- MB 57,
  718-482-5407, ePortfolio_at_lagcc.cuny.edu
• ePortfolio Studio Hour Labs B 121 and B 123
• Staff Information http//www.eportfolio.lagcc.cun
  y.edu/about/contact.htm
• All about LAGCCs ePortfolio programhttp//www.e
  portfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu

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Check us out
http//www.eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu/gallery/
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• Thank you!