Today’s guest, Dr. McClain Watson, at University of Texas at Dallas, advocates for the importance of our students being able to: “ convince people in the professional world that they 1) know what they’re doing, 2) can be trusted, and 3) are interesting to be around?” On today’s episode: Professional Online Portfolios.

Guest: McClain Watson
Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Business Communication Programs Organizations, Strategy and International Management

Bio: http://jindal.utdallas.edu/faculty/john-watson

Resources

• Episode 101: Public sphere pedagogy with Thia Wolf
• Going public with our learning
• What are POPs?
• A Domain of One’s Own on UMW site
• University of Wisconsin – Stout rubric for assessment e-portfolios

Sample portfolios

• http://danyalahmed93.wix.com/portfolio
• http://andreacastanedae.wix.com/andycastaneda
• http://olasaleh.weebly.com/
• http://nathanblumenthal.weebly.com/
• http://luzechanove.wix.com/misitio
• http://thomasjmckee.com/
• http://guohaoyue1990.wix.com/howardguomusic
• http://edq130030.wix.com/elainequayle
• http://adrianhovelman.wix.com/pop2

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