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From Zero To Over 2,500 Eportfolios In Six Years: The Eastern Kentucky University Experience, Steve M. Hyndman, Neal D. Gray, Marcia Pierce, June Hyndman, Paul Wirtz Jul 2006

From Zero To Over 2,500 Eportfolios In Six Years: The Eastern Kentucky University Experience, Steve M. Hyndman, Neal D. Gray, Marcia Pierce, June Hyndman, Paul Wirtz

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In 2000, Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) was awarded a Preparing Tomorrows Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) Implementation grant. One of the major goals of the grant was to create an electronic/multimedia portfolio (eportfolio) assessment system through which future teachers would document their proficiencies and amass strategies to enhance their future teaching. Between the fall of 2000 and the summer of 2003 an eportfolio development team, consisting of faculty from the College of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences, a college student, a public school teacher, and a technology expert, developed and implemented an eportfolio to be used by …