useful resources on ePortfolios ________________________________________ From: CUNY Academic Commons [commons@gc.cuny.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:35 PM To: Claudia Perry Subject: Barbara R. Walters started "Connect to Learning Summary from Bret Eynon" in CAT ePortfolio Subcommittee [CUNY Academic Commons] --- Reply ABOVE THIS LINE to add a comment --- Barbara R. Walters started "Connect to Learning Summary from Bret Eynon" in CAT ePortfolio Subcommittee: "Dear C2L Friends & Colleagues, On Friday Jan. 24, in the historic Riggs Library at Georgetown University, we premiered our national ePortfolio website: "Catalyst for Learning: ePortfolio Resources and Research." We also demonstrated the site at two featured sessions at the national conference of the Association of American Colleges & Universities. Across the board, the reception was enthusiastic. We invite you to explore and begin using the Catalyst site, available at: www.c2l.mcnrc.org . The Catalyst site includes literally hundreds of evidence-based practices and strategies from the 24 C2L campuses, from Boston University to San Francisco State, Virginia Tech, Manhattanville, and Salt Lake Community College. It also highlights key findings, demonstrating the ways that ePortfolio initiatives can build student success and advance completion; deepen student learning and support purposeful self-authorship; and help campuses develop as adaptive learning organizations. We're delighted to be able to congratulate everyone who took part in and supported the Connect to Learning (C2L) project and contributed to the Catalyst site. Particular thanks go to C2L campus teams, who worked so hard all Fall to prepare rich campus portfolios, full of proven practices and thoughtful developmental stories. Thanks also to all of the faculty, staff, and students whose work informed the portfolios. Special thanks to all campus executive leaders and other stakeholders who support and guide the invaluable work of their campus teams. The FIPSE-funded Connect to Learning project was coordinated by the leaders of LaGuardia's Making Connections National Resource Center: Bret Eynon, Judit Torok and Mikhail Valentin, along with Laura Gambino of Guttman Community College. Invaluable roles were played by AAEEBL founder Trent Batson and our Senior Scholars, Georgetown's Randy Bass and Stanford's Helen Chen. The Catalyst site is already drawing attention -- it will be featured in two upcoming publications: * The Winter issue of AAC&U's Peer Review will include a featured article on C2L and the Catalyst site, along with case studies of three C2L campus initiatives (SFSU, Guttman, and Three Rivers), a survey of the field by IUPUI's Susan Kahn, and an editorial by Randy Bass. We expect this issue, which will also feature case studies from Notre Dame and Brown University, to be published in late February or early March. * The April issue of the peer-reviewed International Journal of ePortfolio will spotlight an article presenting C2L research findings, plus campus-specific research articles from four partner campuses (Northeastern, IUPUI, Manhattanville and Salt Lake Community College). Catalyst is a living site, and we will be adding to it in the weeks and months to come. We will be pleased to let you know as new features and essays are posted. We will also be doing publicity around its release, and will welcome your help and complementary efforts. We look forward to working with you to advance the use of the Catalyst site to address our shared goals. The AAC&U conference and our Executive Summit were very exciting events, and we thank everyone who attended and presented. It was great to see you all. As we think about moving forward, we are pleased to congratulate and thank everyone who has helped advance the work of this project up to this point. We'll be in touch with C2L teams about next steps. Thanks again to everyone. Best to all, Bret, Judit, Laura and Mikhail Bret Eynon, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Founding Director, Making Connections National Resource Center LaGuardia Community College, CUNY 31-10 Thompson Ave., M-400 Long Island City, NY 11101 p) 718-482-5405 f) 718-482-5443 BEynon@lagcc.cuny.edu" To view or reply to this topic, log in and go to: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cat-eportfolio-subcommittee/forum/topic/co... --------------------- Your email setting for this group is: All Email To change your email setting for this group, please log in and go to: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php?action=bpnoaccess&auth=1&redirect_to... To disable all notifications for this group, click: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/c2perry/?bpass-action=unsubscribe&group=1...