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Create. Share. Engage.

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Portfolios for learning and more brought to you by the Mahara team at Catalyst IT. Host Kristina Hoeppner talks with portfolio practitioners, researchers, learning designers, students, and others about their portfolio story.

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Christine Dülfer: Supporting industry internships 06.12.2022 19:23

Christine Dülfer (OStR'in; Dipl.-Hdl'in) is a Business Administration and English teacher at Berufliche Schulen des Landkreises Waldeck-Frankenberg in Korbach und Bad Arolsen, which are vocational schools in Germany, and a team leader at the Hessische Lehrkräfteakademie in the media department (Dezernat Medien II.3, SG II.3-3 Fortbildung), responsible for Moodle trainers. Christine has b...

Sam Taylor: Stories from a 14-year portfolio evangelist 22.11.2022 24:07

Sam Taylor (PGCert, FHEA, CMALT) has been supporting portfolio practice as learning designer since 2008 at higher education institutions in the UK and since 2018 as eLearning consultant at Catalyst IT Europe. She's worked with a diverse range of students, lecturers, and staff giving her insight into many different portfolio practices. In this episode, Sam shares a number of her stories that i...

Teresa MacKinnon: Professional portfolios, values, and transferable skills 08.11.2022 34:54

Teresa MacKinnon, MA, has been a language educator for many years, incorporating portfolios into language learning at University of Warwick, and is a scholar working in the field of open educational resources, open access, and open recognition, amongst many other interests of her that she continues to follow in retirement. In her interview Teresa talks about her work with portfolios, her own profe...

Misty Kirby: Supporting eProfessionalism through portfolios 25.10.2022 28:33

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. Click through to the episode page for the tra...

Orna Farrell: Supporting learners and lecturers alike in their portfolio journey 11.10.2022 27:44

Dr Orna Farrell is a researcher at Dublin City University whose portfolio history goes back to 2008. Since then she's taught courses using portfolios and conducted numerous studies involving portfolios. Her interests lie in supporting learners and lecturers alike, also using open education strategies. See the episode page for the transcript. Connect with Orna Orna on Twitter Orna on LinkedIn...

Lisa Donaldson: From 0 to 6,000 in six weeks 27.09.2022 22:57

Until recently, Lisa Donaldson, MSc, worked at Dublin City University in Ireland in the Teaching Enhancement Unit. There she was responsible for Loop Reflect, DCU's ePortfolio platform based on Mahara. In our conversation, Lisa shares how everything started at DCU, and what some of the important steps were that the University took to grow its portfolio initiative. Click through to the episode...

Introduction 13.09.2022 2:46

'Create. Share. Engage.' is a podcast about portfolios for learning and more for educators, learning designers, and managers keen on integrating portfolios with their education and professional development practices. This new podcast is all about sharing portfolio stories from around the world. The first episode will air on Wednesday, 28 September 2022. You'll hear from Lisa Donalds...