October 8, 2010 Hilton Orange County-Costa Mesa Costa Mesa, CA

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Clay Shirky author of "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations" Video from 2009 TED Conference

Clay Shirky author of "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations" Video from 2009 TED Conference

ePortfolio Space

What’s an ePortfolio? ePortfolios are a valuable learning and assessment tool. An ePortfolio is a digitized collection of artifacts including demonstrations, resources, and accomplishments that represent an individual, group, or institution. Called for in CCC System Strategic Plan

Do ePortfolios…. improve college accreditation self-study preparation and program evaluation? improve course design by emphasizing student learning objectives? improve students’ capacity to assess their progress toward their college and career goals? Provide an opportunity to communicate their strengths to others (faculty, employers, peers)? If yes, what will it take to create ePortfolio infrastructure and services that:

Teaching & Learning: Contribute to and support the community of practice on ePortfolios, to determine relative merits of ePortfolios and determine best practices for their deployment Functionality: Develop common information standards for exchange of information between ePortfolio platforms and other CCC systemwide services Operations: Evaluate merits of providing systemwide licensing, hosting, and support services for ePortfolio solutions Business: Develop business plan and assess requirements for a statewide ePortfolio solution Pilot Project Goals

College of the Sequoias (Epsilen) Foothill College Los Angeles Community College District, including: Pierce College Los Angeles Mission College Los Angeles Valley College Los Angeles City College East Los Angeles College Los Angeles Trade-Technical College West Los Angeles College Los Angeles Southwest College Los Angeles Harbor College Mount San Jacinto College (Epsilen) Riverside Community College District ( 3 campuses) San Francisco State University University of California – Santa Barbara, School of Education, Joint Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership (Epsilen) CA Regional Migrant Education Programs (Sul & Associates) Pilot Project Sites

Five Steps for a successful ePortfolio Reflect: Reflect on what you’ve accomplished in school and in your career, and how it fits with your goals. Collect: Collect the information for your ePortfolio. Select: Select those documents that are most pertinent to your goals and keep them handy, as you work on your ePortfolio. Build: Build your site using an ePortfolio tool. Publish: Publish your ePortfolio. You can let others read all or only parts of your site.

Reflect Reflect on what you’ve accomplished in school and in your career, and how it fits with your goals.

Collect Collect: Collect the information for your ePortfolio

Select Select: Select those documents that are most pertinent to your goals and keep them handy as you work on your ePortfolio

Build Build: Build your site using the ePortfolio tool

Publish Publish: Publish your ePortfolio. You can let others read all, or parts of, your site