Kathleen Blake Yancey: Heuristics for meaningful portfolios

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Dr Kathleen Blake Yancey (Emerita Professor at Florida State University) has contributed to ePortfolio research and practice for many years through her numerous publications, presentations, and workshops. In this interview she looks back at some of that practice, with a particular focus on portfolio heuristics and how they differ from templates.
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Resources

• Kathy's web page at Florida State University and her Wikipedia entry
• Kathy's 2022 Batson Lecture 'Tracing Learning in ePortfolios'
• Guest edited volume on portfolios: Computers and Composition, Vol 13, Issue 2, 1996
• Yancey, K. (Ed.). (2019). ePortfolio as curriculum: Models and practices for developing students’ ePortfolio literacy.
• Roche, C., Abria, L., Farrell, O., Johnston, J., Penny Light, T., McKibben, A., Reast, A., & Yancey, K. B. (2023). ePortfolio to support professional development during experiential learning placements: Guided by students-as-partners theory, enabled through students-as-partners practice. International Journal for Students As Partners, 7(2), 165–180.
• Megan Mize's online workshop 'How to get started with AI tools'
• Leticia Britos Cavagnaro:
  • Book Experiments in reflection
  • Reflection AI bot Riff
  • Webinar Supporting reflection through an AI powered reflection bot
• AAC&U Institute on ePortfolios
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force
• Richard Lanham's book The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts
• Yancey, K. (2023). The value of purposeful design: A case study of an ePortfolio reflective prompt. Across the Disciplines, 20(3/4), 31-49.

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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. How did you get started with portfolios? (00:00:50)

3. Starting to work with students using portfolios (00:04:23)

4. What was your students' reaction to portfolios? (00:08:44)

5. The usefulness of exemplars (00:11:43)

6. Portfolio makingness (00:15:54)

7. Portfolio heuristics (00:17:40)

8. What trends have you observed? (00:23:30)

9. What can't you just yet fully do with portfolios? (00:31:24)

10. Q&A: Three words / phrases to describe portfolio work (00:34:21)

11. Q&A: A tip for educators (00:34:45)

12. Q&A: A tip for portfolio authors (00:36:23)