e-Portfolio Community of Practice Meeting
Wednesday, October 26th 1-2:30PM (TAG Seminar Room)
1. Agenda Approval
2. Standing Items (5 minutes)
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Announcements
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Welcome to our UBC Okanagan colleagues!
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Upcoming UBC events
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Celebrate Research Week (March 4-11), call for
proposals deadline Oct 31st
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Digital Storytelling Workshop offered through TAG
(Nov 22)
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e-Portfolio Annual Conference date change (May 2006)
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Upcoming external events
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ELI 2006 Annual Meeting -Learning Without Limits
(January 29-31, 2006, San Diego)
[www.educause.edu/eli061]
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E-Learn Conference, Vancouver (Oct 24-28)
[http://www.aace.org/conf/eLearn/default.htm]
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ELI Web Seminar, facilitated by Cyprien Lomas (Nov 8)
[more info in e-Portfolio weblog]
3. Items Arising (70 minutes)
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Conference reflections
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Research update
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Software demo – KEEP Toolkit (Alison Wong & Bjorn Thomson)
4. Summary & Upcoming Meetings (5 minutes)
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Wednesday, Nov 24th 1-2:30pm TAG Seminar Room
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December – No Meeting
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Wednesday, Jan 25th 1-2:30pm TAG Seminar Room
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Wednesday, Feb 22nd 1-2:30pm TAG Seminar Room
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Wednesday, Mar 29th 1-2:30pm TAG Seminar Room
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Wednesday, April 26th 1-2:30pm TAG Seminar Room
Monthly e-Portfolio CoP Update
More news available in our blog: http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/eportfolios/
Recent News
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CoP presented at 2 major international conferences in October – Educause &
ISSoTL. Summaries and reflections will soon be available in the blog.
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ePort CoP future directions workshop summary...We will continue with this
visioning work in our November meeting.
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Dennis Yoo, a 3rd year student in Chemistry, has been hired through the Work
Study Program to work on the student angle of the e-portfolio pilot this fall.
Dennis has been making connections with student groups and career fairs across
campus. Dennis will also be working in a number of pilots to help support the
students creating e-portfolios.
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The International Peer Program will be introducing e-portfolios to students in the
program in November. One of the core goals of the project will be to provide
students with opportunities to connect their Peer Program experiences with other
leadership experiences, with their cultural backgrounds and with their educational
goals. They will use a combination of software tools within this project, including
ELGG and Flickr.
Project Portfolio (http://blogfolios.olt.ubc.ca/eportfolio/)