Electronic Portfolios

Electronic Portfolios (ePortfolios) offer many advantages for today's education institutions and for individual career planning. While still in school, having a well designed portfolio can show skills, reflection, and learning outcomes. In the market place an excellent portfolio can serve as an effective tool for annual reviews or it may serve as a leg-up on competitors for sought after positions.

I work with individuals, companies, K-12 schools, colleges, and universities to help them develop techniques to implement various types of portfolios. My specialties are the student reflective portfolio, which is an excellent source for teachers and parents wishing to view and assess student learning outcomes and meet accreditation requirements, the career portfolio, which can be used by college students entering the competitive job market or job searchers hoping to obtain advancement, and the faculty portfolio, which is an excellent method for faculty to reflectively review their skills and provide a visual review of their work for prospective students, university administrators during annual reviews, or accreditation agencies.

Experience

• Electronic Portfolio Expert/Administrator - Regent University
• Implemented the Electronic Portfolio component within Regent University's School of Psychology and Counseling Ph.D. in Counselor Supervision program online distance education program.
• Worked with faculty, staff, and students for creating, storing and using their ePortfolios.
• Designed, developed, and maintained, Regent University's School of Psychology and Counseling electronic portfolio online resource center.

Research

• Faculty portfolios for Marketing and Annual Reviews
• Adding ePortfolios to a Distance Education Program - This research specifically addressed adding an ePortfolio component to a doctorate program offered online.
• Integrating Video in Electronic Portfolios - The terminal objective for this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of an instructional module in teaching users to create and added video to their ePortfolios.
  
• Electronic Portfolios: Improving the Assessment of Learning - The objective of this research was to investigate and discuss the value of ePortfolios in preparation for designing an instructional module.

On the Web

• Listing of eportfolio presentations
• SPC Portfolio Online Resource Center - Created for the Regent University's School of Psychology and Counseling. This resource is dedicated to providing users with the information needed to begin building, storing, and using an ePortfolio.
  
• Adding Video to Electronic Portfolios Module - A Web-based instructional module discussing the use of videos in eportfolios, providing examples, and the methods to creating, editing and adding videos to ePortfolios.