Misty Kirby: Supporting eProfessionalism through portfolios

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Dr Misty Kirby is an academic and practitioner with university and school experience, creating portfolios herself and with her students. Misty shares her thoughts on how portfolios can support eProfessionalism in both academics and students. She explains what was behind the idea of SmartEvidence for her and why it's an important feature in Mahara.
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Connect with Misty

• Misty on Twitter
• Misty on LinkedIn
• Misty's website

Resources

• Presentation 'ECARx: Early career academic researchers’ experience using ePortfolios'
• Presentation 'SmartEvidence: Improving ePortfolio quality through intervention'
• Brown Wilson, C., Slade, C., Kirby, M. M., Downer, T., Fisher, M., & Nuessler, S. (2018). Digital ethics and the use of the ePortfolio: A scoping review of the literature. International Journal of ePortfolio, 8(2), 115-126.
• Kirby, M. M., Slade, C.S., Brown Wilson, C., Downer, T., Fisher, M.B., Siddiqui, Z., Isbel, S., McAllister, L., & Miller, A. (in press). A call to action for eProfessionalism: Supporting emerging health and education practitioners build their online presence through ePortfolio use, for the Journal of Computing in Higher Education.
• Kathryn Coleman's work
• ePortfolios Australia's 'Plan, act, reflect, and eportfolio' (PARE) sessions
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force ePortfolio mapping survey

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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 it all started (00:01:15)

3. Early academic career portfolio project (00:02:32)

4. Work on eProfessionalism (00:04:48)

5. Digital ethics (00:07:08)

6. Have portfolio practices changed? (00:10:54)

7. SmartEvidence (00:13:08)

8. Trends in portfolio practice (00:16:55)

9. What can't you do with portfolios just yet? (00:20:35)

10. Q&A: 3 words to describe portfolio practice (00:23:35)

11. Q&A: A tip for learning designers and educators (00:23:55)

12. Q&A: A tip for portfolio authors (00:25:12)