E-Portfolio Journal

Folio Thinking from First-Year Success to Global Citizenship:Preparing for the 21st Century Workplace with Electronic College Portfolios as a Kaleidoscopic Learning Process

18th International First Year Experience Conference: University of Southampton,Southampton, England July 11-14, 2005
Roundtable Presentation Author: Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick
July 12, 2005 - Roundtable Presentation

Presentation Abstract
Join the international academic conversation on using the Folio Thinking Process for First-Year Success to Global Citizenship: Preparing for the 21st Century Workplace with Electronic College Portfolios as a Kaleidoscopic Learning Process. The availability of new technologies make electronic college portfolios a kaleidoscopic learning process allowing first-year seminar college students to clearly view, reflect, and connect their learning from self to global society. Electronic College Portfolios take learning beyond the college transcript, mirroring the current culture of the 21st century workforce, which requires knowledge workers to reflect, assess, and manage their learning plans for continued education, keeping current with the necessary expertise development in their technologically global worksites and communities, for the better good of society.

Whether you are exploring, considering or currently using the Electronic College Portfolio, come ready to join this rich discussion of on Folio Thinking from First-Year Success to Global Citizenship: Preparing for the 21st Century Workplace with Electronic College Portfolios as Kaleidoscopic Learning Process.. Bring samples of first-year seminar students’ Electronic College Portfolios, ideas teaching the folio thinking process, tips on using the latest software to create E-Portfolio training for first-year seminar students, information for using and integrating varying technology platforms such as the institutional desktop, institutional intranet, and institutional internet designs for e-portfolios, tips on how to assess portfolios, ideas on how to use E-Portfolios for scholarships, internships, academic advising, careers, and preparation for global citizenship. Come to the conversation roundtable for an inspiring exchange of your ideas and materials on the empowerment of using folio thinking in the First-Year Seminar, gateway to college student success in higher education and global society.

Learning Outcomes for KSU 1101 & Learning Communities

Continue this roundtable discussion by joining us in the Online Journal (BLOG) to discuss Folio Thinking from First Year Success to Global Citizenship.

Roundtable Facilitators:

Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick
Associate Professor of Communications & Director of Portfolios for Student Success Programs & Senior Year Experience
The Senior Year Experience Program
University College
Kennesaw State University

Dr. M. Leigh Funk
Assistant Professor of Special Education & Electronic Data Manager
Bagwell College of Education
Kennesaw State University

Ms. Kathy Matthews
Director of First Year Experience
First Year Experience
Kennesaw State University

Ms. Karen Andrews
Director of Career Services
Career Services
Kennesaw State University

Dr. Daniel J. Paracka
Director of International Services and Programs
International Services and Programs
Institute for Global Learning
Kennesaw State University

with exhibited materials by
Ms. Jennifer Leifheit, Instructional Technology Support Specialist
Mr. Ben Cope, Instructional Technology Support Specialist
Ms. Bethany Izar & KSU Students

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E-Portfolio: Passport to Global Citizenship:
Helping College Students Honor, Understand, and Connect
Their Learning from Self to Global Society.
One Step Closer to a Better World.

AAHE National Conference on Higher Education
Atlanta, Georgia
March 18, 2005

Presentation Abstract

Author: Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick, Kennesaw State University

The Kennesaw State University best practices of using e-portfolios for developing a global mindset from first year to the senior year college students are shared in an innovative website, which includes, incorporating human diversity issues; framing volunteer and service-learning projects for connecting local and global issues; creating reflective student e-portfolios, which connect cultural background, educational goals, and global leadership aspirations; and developing media analysis strategies for understanding local and global perspectives of a just, equitable, and sustainable society.

Poster Presentation Presenters
Dr. Joan E. Leichter Dominick Associate Professor of Communications & Director of Portfolios for Student Success Programs & The Senior Year Experience Program

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Dr. Daniel J. Paracka Director of International Programs and Services

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Dr. M. Leigh Funk Assistant Professor of Educational Technology

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with exhibited materials by
Ms. Jennifer Leifheit, Instructional Technology Support Specialist
Mr. Ben Cope, Instructional Technology Support Specialist
Ms. Bethany Izar & KSU Students

AAHE Program
PS13: E-Portfolio: Passport to Global Citizenship (Page 72)

EPAC at 2004 AAHE National Conference on Higher Education
March 17-20, 2005, Atlanta GA
E-Portfolio-Related Sessions and Meetings
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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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