Publications

Journal Publications

Online Personal Learning Environments: Structuring Electronic Portfolios for Lifelong and Life Wide Learning (On the Horizon  | Vol. 17 No. 2, 2009, pp. 142-152, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited, ISSN 1074-8121)

This paper was published in a futurist journal, where I looked at the future of ePortfolios as a lifelong, life wide process.

Article for IRA JAAL Researching Electronic Portfolios and Learner Engagement: The REFLECT Initiative

http://electronicportfolios.org/portfolios/JAAL-REFLECT3.pdf  - RELINK

Accepted for March 2007 Electronic Portfolio issue of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (JAAL-International Reading Association). This paper is an update of the White Paper (below) that was written at the beginning of the REFLECT Initiative. This updated paper discusses some of the findings from the first year site visits.

White Paper: Researching Electronic Portfolios and Learner Engagement

http://electronicportfolios.org/reflect/whitepaper.pdf - RELINK

This 2005 paper was written for TaskStream to cover the literature for the REFLECT Initiative, a research project on implementing electronic portfolios in secondary schools. 

AERA paper

http://electronicportfolios.org/reflect/AERAPaper2006.pdf - RELINK

Roundtable Paper discussed at American Educational Research Association Conference (April 9, 2006). This paper presents the REFLECT Research Data Collection Plan, and options for questionnaire items to be included in the second round of data collection (for Spring 2006).

Connected Newsletter article

http://electronicportfolios.org/portfolios/ConnectedNewsletter.pdf - RELINK

Using Electronic Portfolios for Formative/Classroom-based Assessment. October 2006, Connected Newsletter (Classroom Connect), Volume 13, No.2, pp. 4-6. This paper was a re-write and update of the REFLECT Brief published in early 2005 as part of the RFP.

Create Your Own Electronic Portfolio

http://electronicportfolios.org/portfolios/iste2k.html - RELINK

The latest article that I published in Learning & Leading with Technology, April 2000, focused on "Using Off-the-Shelf Software to Showcase Your Own or Student Work." In this article, I moved from commercial software to the use of common desktop software tools.

Technology-Supported Portfolio Assessment

http://electronicportfolios.org/portfolios/compteach0394.htm - RELINK

This was my first publication on Electronic Portfolios, published in The Computing Teacher, March, 1994. Reprinted in Student Portfolios: A Collection of Articles edited by Robin Fogarty (1996). Palatine, Illinois: IRI/Skylight Training & Publishing, Inc., pp. 127-137.