Technology Careers @ Broome Community College

A Review of the Literature on Portfolios and Electronic Portfolios
Philippa Butler

E-Portfolio White Paper
ePort Consortium. Novemember 2003

Audience, integrity, and the living document: eFolio Minnesota and lifelong and lifewide learning with ePortfolios.
Darren Cambridge

This article presents the results from research on eFolio Minnesota, a project that makes ePortfolio software available to all residents of the State of Minnesota in the United States. The most active portfolio authors of all ages are using eFolio for a wide range of interconnected purposes, with educational planning at the center, over time in multiple roles as students, educators, and workers...full article

The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What's it All About?
Trent Batson

ePortfolios vs. Webfolios
Since the mid-90s, the term "ePortfolio" or "electronic portfolio" has been used to describe collections of student work at a Web site. Within the field of composition studies, the term "Webfolio" has also been used. In this article, we are using the current, general meaning of the term, which is a dynamic Web site that interfaces with a database of student work artifacts. Webfolios are static Web sites where functionality derives from HTML links. "E-portfolio" therefore now refers to database-driven, dynamic Web sites, not static, HTML-driven sites...full article

Electronic Portfolio Design
Dr. Janet Buzzard

This paper presents an approach for designing and developing an electronic based student portfolio management system. As an institution, we have been striving to provide students with a means to demonstrate the competencies they have achieved during their college career. One of the obstacles colleges face in portfolio development is that much of the student’s work is in an electronic format. To accommodate this, we have investigated methods of maintaining a college wide database of student portfolios...full article

Stand Out With an E-portfolio
Rachel Zupek

Take a minute to search your name on the Internet. What comes up? Your MySpace page? An old paper you wrote in college? A court document archiving your arrest from college?
While some of these citations are worse than others, none of them are items you want to showcase – especially to potential employers. And believe me, they’re looking. Thirty-five percent of hiring managers use Google to do online background checks on job candidates, according to a recent survey by Ponemon Institute, an information and privacy think tank. Nearly one-third of those Web searches lead to job rejections...full article

National Science Foundation. (2003) The Science and Engineering Workforce: Realizing America's Potential. Washington D.C. (NSB 03-69)

Preparing Today’s Youth for the Workplace. Business Council President and CEO Kenneth Adams testifies at a New York State Senate hearing on preparing today's youth for the workplace. May 28, 2008.

NAS (2006) Generation Y: The Millennials. Ready or Not, Here They Come