E-Portfolio Journal

E-Portfolio as Kaleidoscopic Process: Reflective View from Self to Global Society Just as a kaleidoscope needs light to view the endless possibilities of visual combinations of the colored glass, an e-portfolio provides the illumination for the learner to view the endless possibilities of the potential views and connections of her/his learning experience from self to global society.
Dr. Helen Barrett,international academic leader in the e-portfolio process, is posting metaphors people develop for the E-Portfolio Process. She has chosen my Kaleidoscopic metaphor for her posting list. Go to her website at: http://www.helenbarrett.com for more metaphoric descriptions of e-portfolios. Also, the link to her Website is posted on our links on the left side of this page.


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Ben Cope and I decided to develop this Online Journal for E-Portfolio Reflections. What we have begun today is a way for us to reflect, understand, connect, and triagulate the process of creating a E-Portfolio while beginning to record our thoughts on what I like to call FolioThinking. The previous posting is my current thoughts on the role of the e-portfolio for the graduating college senior. College seniors have a chance to deeply refelct on their college learning experiences, both on and off campus, through the process of FolioThinking. Once that process is developed using the RACCE College Portfolio Process(copyright 2002), that I authored, the college seniors begin the process of producing a public portfolio using varying digital formats available at Kennesaw State University. The current "Best of Show E-Portfolio Buffet" consists of: The Online Career Portfolio (Career Services), The Pocket E-Portfolio (Presentation Technology Department - Desk Top Publishig), and The WebFolio (Instructional Technology Department).
The College Senior Portfolio has five continual phases of development which help you design, deliver, and continually assess your learning history and learning plans: Reflect, Assess, Collect, Connect, and Express – RACCE Portfolio Process. By going through these continual phases of development of your College Senior Portfolio you will have (1) a distinct archived history of your learning and plans for your future learning, which results in a Reflective Portfolio/Private Portfolio and (2) have the baseline to design and develop a Best of Show Portfolio/Public Portfolio to present your learning story and learning plans to society for career search, graduate school, community work, entrepreneurial endeavors, and community service.

Your Reflective Portfolio includes the following three sections (1) Reflect: Mapping Your College Learning Self-Assessment Instruments (2) Assess: Self-Assessment + Faculty Assessment + Peer Assessment + Stakeholder Assessment, and (3) Collect: Set up Reflective Portfolio Supporting Evidence File which archives both your learning history and incorporates future learning plans.

Your Best of Show Portfolio is designed based the on information provided from the Reflective Portfolio, which include using the self-assessment learning instruments and the supporting evidence files. There are two phases of the Best of Show Portfolio. (1) Connect: Develop the Mission, Design, and Format of the Best of Show Portfolio, and (2) Express: Present Portfolio to Public. The three phases of planning for the Best of Show Portfolio are deciding on the mission of the portfolio, creating the design of the portfolio, and selecting an effective format for the portfolio.

Joining the emerging portfolio process trends in higher education, the college senior will produce two formats of their Best of Show Portfolio which are (1) the Pocket E-Portfolio designed and developed through the technology training provided by the Presentation Technology Center, and (2) KSU Institutional Online Career Portfolio housed in the department of Career Services, there by best utilizing the latest technology available for students to archive and showcase their learning history, talents, and future learning plans. The Pocket E-Portfolio allows the student to record their work on digital media and maintain their own portfolio files on CD, USB and/or Zip Disc. The Online Career Portfolio is a web-based portfolio maintained by the student and monitored by the university. This allows the student an online filing system to showcase their learning history and can be sent in email format. Both the Pocket E-Portfolio and the Online Career Portfolio can be cross-referenced provided a way for students to showcase their talents and skills in the area of academics, employment, technology, community service and more.

Once completed, your College Learning Portfolio: Reflective Portfolio and Best of Show Portfolio will help you honor, understand, and connect your learning for yourself and for your emerging role as college graduate and citizen leader. Part of a national academic movement in higher education, the College Learning Portfolio takes your learning beyond the college transcript and provides an empowering assessment format for your to archive your learning, assist your in better understanding the breadth and depth of your skills and talents, help you make better decisions about your future plans, and help other understand your talents, learning history, and your future potential as a citizen leader.
I am looking forward to recording my further developing ideas on the learning power of FolioThinking and the subsequent production of the Best of Show E-Portfolio in the varying formats of the Pocket E-Portfolio, the Online Portfolio, and a Webfolio for college seniors to better honor, understand, and connect their learning for self and global society and to begin conversations of connection with societal stakeholders.

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E-Portfolios: Passport to Global Citizenship
Neo-Aristotelian view of 21st Century Kairos: E-Portfolios as Rhetorical Act linking College Graduates to Global Society

Mission:According to Aristotle, kairos is the legal, political, or ceremonial act that demands a rhetorical outcome for justice. The kairos or ceremonial act of college graduation welcomes the rhetorical act of creating an e-portfolio, which provides the student with self-reflection, transformation, introduction, and connection to the audience, which results in an attempt to establish a just, equitable, and sustainable global community.
Creating the E-portfolio rhetorically strategizes the use of technology for andragoglogical transformation and societal connection of the author and audience, resulting in decisions and actions for the better good of global society. E-portfolios are used as a reflective tool and as an effective means for initiating conversations and actions with others about the value of developing an international perspective and becoming a more responsible global citizen.


Weaving the Global Mindset from Institutional Vision to Productive Global Citizen:
Using the E-Portfolio: Rhetorically, Technologically, and Pedagogically
For the Greater Good of Global Society
A critical mission of higher education is to produce productive global citizens that are dedicated to developing a just, equitable and sustainable society. How can we introduce to our first-year through the senior-year college students the best practices for developing a global mindset in preparation for their future leadership roles?
One academic solution is the production of an e-portfolio, which encompasses a reflective or private portfolio for self-reflection on learning and transformational thinking on global issues and the production of a best of show portfolio or public portfolio, to begin conversations to connect and make a positive difference in the world. With the sophisticated development and rhetorical implication of technology, the e-portfolio is an efficient mode of delivery and an effective method of pedagogy for the designer and the intended reader.
Currently, there is a huge cresting wave of academic interest in the production of e-portfolios in higher education. The current technology juxtaposed with the shrinking of the global world provides the kairos or, as the ancient Greeks referred to as, a circumstance that demands legal, political and ceremonial rhetoric for justice and honor, poses the question of the rhetorical implication of for the e-portfolio. For college students preparing for post-university life, it is critical that we provide the guidance for students to create e-portfolios that are rhetorical acts designed for global citizenship, rather than, e-portfolios as a sophist act designed for self-promotion. The kairos or ceremonial rhetorical act of graduation demands the production of an e-portfolio that provides the student with self-reflection, transformation, and connection to becoming a global citizen. The model of e-portfolio consists of addressing the kairos+rhetoric+technology+pedagogy=transformational learning and ethical conversation and global behavioral change for the better good of society.
Dr. Vladimir Pucik, Professor of International Human Resources and Strategy at the International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne Switzerland, provides a definition of global mindset, which includes respect for cultural diversity and human diversity, that is based on the principle of “learning locally, but act globally” (Chowdhury, et.al. 2003.Organization 21 C: Someday All Organizations Will Lead This Way. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. p.50). His definition implies honoring shared ways of thinking, using a global knowledge base combined with a local learning base to produce a rich resource for making the best societal decisions possible.
The Kennesaw State University best practices for developing a global mindset from the first-year to the senior year college students are shared in this innovative website, which include, incorporating human diversity issues, framing volunteer/service-learning projects for connecting local and global issues, creation of reflective student e-portfolios, which connect cultural background, educational goals, and global leadership aspirations, and media analysis strategies for understanding local and global perspectives of a just, equitable, and sustainable society.

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We are very excited to add this new feature to our website and look forward to posting our notes and reflections regarding e-portfolios. Feel free to leave your comments and check back often for new updates!
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