Session Title
Session 01 - 138,889 Sheets of Paper Become Digital: Conversion to a Digital Portfolio Management System and How It’s Changing Our Teaching
Session Location
Grand Valley State University, Eberhard Center, EC 514
Session Start Date and Time
21-8-2013 10:45 AM
Session End Date and Time
21-8-2013 11:45 AM
Session Description
Each semester the first-year writing program works with thousands of student drafts, and at the end of the term grades--with a multiple blind reader system--about 1700 student portfolios. For nearly 20 years we managed this work by passing around large stacks of manila folders. Last year the program began using a web-based system for managing both drafts and final portfolios. We developed this web-based management system in house using open-source software. As a consequence, we’ve discovered that the technology is suggesting (or insisting on) changes to the way we interact with students and their writing. This presentation will begin with a short overview of our web-based tool and then describe ways that we’ve adapted our pedagogy (for better or for worse) to leverage (or concede to) the power of the technology. We hope our experiences will provoke a discussion about the reciprocal relation of technology and pedagogy.
Session 01 - 138,889 Sheets of Paper Become Digital: Conversion to a Digital Portfolio Management System and How It’s Changing Our Teaching
Grand Valley State University, Eberhard Center, EC 514