Amanda B. Wallace & Kylie Pugh: The portfolio as well-being tool

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Assistant Professor at Tallahassee Community College Amanda B. Wallce, MA, and Kylie Pugh, MA, Adjunct Faculty at the University of West Florida and Customer Success Manager at Instructure talk about their experience with portfolios that they designed around student well-being. Together with Dr Bre Garrett (University of West Florida), they conducted research in that area and published that at the end of 2023.
Kylie and Amanda share their own learning journey, filled with trials, errors, and lots and lots of reflective work. They showcase beautifully portfolio work themselves.
The majority of their work that they share happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. In one part of the interview they share some of the difficult situations that they experienced. This section is prefaced with a content warning so you can skip to the next chapter if this may be difficult for you to listen to.
Connect with Amanada and Kylie

• Amanada on LinkedIn
• Kylie on LinkedIn

Resources

• Garrett, B., Pugh, K., & Wallace, A. B. (2023). ePortfolio Composition: Fostering a Pedagogy of Well-Being. Across the Disciplines, 20(3–4), 87–109.
• Webinar 'From research to application: ePortfolio practice across the disciplines' on 28 June 2024

Click through to the episode notes to access the transcript.

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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. How did you become interested in portfolios? (00:03:04)

3. Influence of prior portfolio experience (00:06:14)

4. The portfolio project (00:13:56)

5. Content warning: COVID-19 pandemic difficult situations (00:17:42)

6. Trying to implement change at the institution (00:32:43)

7. Re-design the portfolio (00:37:56)

8. What would you like to do with portfolios but can't just yet? (00:42:29)

9. Acknowledging Dr Bre Garrett (00:48:06)

10. Q&A: Words to describe porfolio work (00:50:39)

11. Q&A: A tip for educators and learning designers (00:51:29)

12. Q&A: A tip for learners (00:53:22)