Annemarie Galeucia & Boz Bowles: Create a portfolio and get a medal for it

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Dr Annemarie Galeucia and David 'Boz' Bowles, MFA, are members of the Communications Across the Curriculum (CxC) team at Louisiana State University in the U.S.A. The CxC team created the Distinguished Communicator Medal Program in 2005, supporting students before effective communicators.
In this episode, Annemarie and Boz talk about the evolution of the program in which portfolios play a crucial role and discuss how and why the portfolio component has changed over time and how the team supports students.
A cool thing about the programme? Students receive an actual medal upon graduation.
Connect with

• Annemarie Galeucia on LinkedIn
• Boz Bowles on LinkedIn

Resources

• Distinguished Communicator Medal Program at LSU
• Article 'Using ePortfolios to Help Students Reframe, Reflect, and Integrate Their Learning' by Annemarie Galeucia, Boz Bowles, Jennifer Baumgartner, and Rebecca Burdette in the special ePortfolio issue of 'Across the Disciplines'
• Article 'High-Impact Practices and Third Spaces: Connecting across Disciplines' by Morgan Gresham, Megan Mize, and Sarah Zurhellen in 'Across the Disciplines'

Click through to the episode notes for resources and the transcript.

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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Why portfolios? (00:03:02)

3. What is the Distinguished Communicator Medal Program? (00:05:29)

4. Who are the students that participate? (00:08:49)

5. Phase one (00:10:38)

6. Phase two (00:16:41)

7. Phase three (00:23:45)

8. Phase four? (00:27:47)

9. Portfolios for all? (00:32:22)

10. What's missing? (00:34:52)

11. Q&A: Words to describe porfolio work (00:40:37)

12. Q&A: A tip for educators and learning designers (00:41:12)

13. Q&A: A tip for portfolio authors (00:42:43)