Sarah Burkhalter

@lmcgreerstaples :I liked the comments about helping students manage stress. I was hoping for more of these in the course. However, for a short tutorial, it was helpful.

I think that a variety of learning strategies is important, not only because students learn in many different ways, but also because students should be exposed to different ways of thinking. Maybe a student has never tried a graphic organizer because she know she is an auditory learner. However, when she tries making a couple, she realizes that thinking in this different way helps her see connections among ideas that she didn't realize before.

Karen, I was surprised that no one had responded to my post, so I was glad to hear from you. I have used e-portfolios for students in a variety of programs that had professional standards or specific skills that had to be demonstrated. Two things that I think worked really well were a reflection component and the opportunity for students to present their portfolios (or a portion of them) to a faculty or professional committee. A reflection piece was placed after each item in the portfolio, so that the student could explain what he/she had learned, how it was learned… >>>