Stephen Harlow: Tell your story through your portfolio

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Stephen Harlow is a Learning Designer at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato The University of Waikato, in Aotearoa New Zealand where he supports students and lecturers via Te Puna Ako - Centre for Tertiary Teaching and Learning (CeTTL). He's been introduced to digital storytelling in the early 2000s and has been using it since then for himself and in his teaching.
Digital storytelling is a wonderful method to use in portfolios to tell your learning story.
Connect with Stephen

• Mastodon
• LinkedIn

Resources

• The Mastodon post that started it all.
• Flexible Learning Leaders in New Zealand
• StoryCenter, formerly, the Center for Digital Storytelling
• BBC's 'Capture Wales'
• BBC Micro; GBP235 in today's money is GBP861 (NZD1,787 / USD1,090)
• Helen Barrett's WCELFest keynote 'Balancing the two faces of ePortfolios: Reflection and assessment' in 2015
• DS106 - Digital Storytelling 106
• MyPortfolio: Mahara sites for schools in Aotearoa New Zealand

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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 involved in portfolios? (00:01:44)

3. Why is storytelling important? (00:03:21)

4. What is a digital story? (00:06:08)

5. How do you help students with their digital stories? (00:08:11)

6. What was 'Capture Wales'? (00:09:41)

7. How are you applying digital storytelling? (00:11:44)

8. How has digital storytelling changed since 2004? (00:14:42)

9. What does digital storytelling look like at The University of Waikato? (00:20:36)

10. What can't you yet fully do with portfolios? (00:23:54)

11. Q&A: Three words / phrases to describe portfolio work (00:26:55)

12. Q&A: A tip for learning designers or instructors (00:28:25)

13. Q&A: A tip for learners (00:29:19)