ePortfolio with Michelle Simmons

Michelle Holschuh Simmons is one of my most favorite professors in the program. If you're one of the students in my 203 section, or if you haven't had the pleasure to take one of her courses yet, read on to find out why.

Michelle teaches LIBR210 Reference and Information Services, LIBR228 Advanced Resources and Services, LIBR287 Information Literacy, and is one of SLIS' many fine ePort advisors for LIBR289 Advanced Topics in Library and Information Science headed by Dr. Linda Main. Out of class, you can find her doling out advise as an active academic advisor when she's not serving on SLIS' Curriculum Committee and on top of all of that, she also happens to be a mom to 4 young boys (the youngest a set of twins)! As busy as she is, she is one of the most approachable people in the program. If you're following the reviews on the SJSU MLIS Yahoo Group board and database or even the numerous Facebook groups online you'll see I'm not the only one who really enjoys her classes.  

Last night, Michelle hosted a collaborate session as a sort of generalized overview of the ePortfolio process. She does this at least once a year and invites all of her academic advisees, her students from all classes and encourages us to kindly invite other interested students as well. At the invitation of my own peer mentor from last year, Stacey Nordlund, I attended last year but remember feeling a little more overwhelmed than excited about our culminating experience here at SLIS. This year, I'm a year older, wiser and having heard a little more about ePort from the professors and students in between then and now, I left the session feeling excited to start organizing my competencies!

So again, in case you missed this recording and I missed inviting you to the session, I'm re-posting the link here to share as a sort of home base to add in to the rest of my treasure trove of treasures I'm taking away from my school experience.

Enjoy!

Other useful links*:


SJSU SLIS D2L ePortfolio Tutorials
This area contains Web page tutorials taking you through the various tasks associated with building, maintaining, and sharing an ePortfolio in D2L.

289 ePortfolio Handbook
The goal of the e-Portfolio is to provide a program-based assessment to ensure that each student demonstrates mastery of all student learning outcomes (core competencies) for the degree before graduation. For a list of the core competencies, see: Core Compentencies. Students selecting the e-Portfolio option as opposed to the thesis option should register for LIBR 289: Advanced Topics in Library and Information Science. LIBR 289 is a 3-unit formal graduate course; students should thus expect to devote a minimum of 135 hours to developing and refining their e-Portfolios. The three credits for this course count toward the total of 42 (or 43) units required for the MLIS degree. Successful completion of the course will result in a Credit grade being given for LIBR 289.


*Links and text cut directly from SLISweb.