1 00:00:00,790 --> 00:00:03,550 Welcome to Digication Scholars Conversations. 2 00:00:03,580 --> 00:00:05,220 I'm your host, Kelly Driscoll. 3 00:00:05,420 --> 00:00:09,240 In this episode, you'll hear Part One of my conversation with Matthew 4 00:00:09,260 --> 00:00:13,470 Gomes, an EDP Systems Analyst at Bunker Hill Community College. 5 00:00:14,199 --> 00:00:19,139 More links and information about today's conversation can be found on Digication's 6 00:00:19,210 --> 00:00:21,160 Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,840 Full episodes of Digication Scholars Conversations can be found on 8 00:00:25,850 --> 00:00:28,080 YouTube or your favorite podcast app. 9 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,310 Welcome to Digication Scholars Conversations. 10 00:00:32,330 --> 00:00:37,820 I'm your host, Kelly Driscoll, and today I am so pleased to introduce Matthew Gomes. 11 00:00:37,830 --> 00:00:42,239 He's the EDP System Analyst at Bunker Hill Community College. 12 00:00:42,260 --> 00:00:43,359 Welcome, Matthew. 13 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:45,029 Thank you, Kelly. 14 00:00:45,070 --> 00:00:46,139 Thank you for having me. 15 00:00:46,150 --> 00:00:46,609 This is great. 16 00:00:47,285 --> 00:00:50,825 Yeah, I'm so pleased to talk to you today, and I don't know if you're aware 17 00:00:50,825 --> 00:00:56,385 of this, but Bunker Hill Community College is about to celebrate its 15 18 00:00:56,825 --> 00:01:00,694 year anniversary working with Digication. 19 00:01:00,725 --> 00:01:06,995 I took a peek at the system today and saw that Some of the early adopters 20 00:01:07,025 --> 00:01:11,215 got started back in January of 2010. 21 00:01:11,435 --> 00:01:19,874 So congratulations for almost 15 years of having such extraordinary 22 00:01:19,905 --> 00:01:23,225 ePortfolios created by your community. 23 00:01:23,745 --> 00:01:30,675 And I remember visiting the campus in some of those early days and walk, working 24 00:01:30,675 --> 00:01:33,445 with some of the early adopters there and. 25 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:38,350 Involved in some of the early faculty trainings as people were getting started 26 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:45,725 and Your school has really been a very early pioneer in using ePortfolios with 27 00:01:45,725 --> 00:01:56,055 such a strong focus on the, the pedagogy around reflective practice and, uh, really 28 00:01:56,055 --> 00:02:01,554 steadfast focus on students being able to use this kind of technology, not only to 29 00:02:01,555 --> 00:02:08,364 kind of share and showcase their academic pursuits, but to really talk about who 30 00:02:08,364 --> 00:02:15,485 they are and their interests outside of the classroom, their kind of personal 31 00:02:15,495 --> 00:02:21,614 missions and passions, and kind of just share who, who they are as a person. 32 00:02:21,684 --> 00:02:28,515 Um, not only what they might be doing in the class there, um, So, I am just 33 00:02:28,515 --> 00:02:34,285 so pleased to have you on today to kind of talk about how your portfolios are 34 00:02:34,285 --> 00:02:36,904 used at Bunker Hill Community College. 35 00:02:36,904 --> 00:02:41,195 And before we jump into that, I'd love to just hear a little bit about how you came 36 00:02:41,195 --> 00:02:44,254 to the campus and what your role is there. 37 00:02:45,005 --> 00:02:45,375 Sure. 38 00:02:45,554 --> 00:02:45,894 Thank you. 39 00:02:45,945 --> 00:02:49,745 Uh, yeah, it's great to hear the, uh, 15 year anniversary. 40 00:02:49,745 --> 00:02:50,485 That's awesome. 41 00:02:50,485 --> 00:02:51,205 I started there. 42 00:02:51,205 --> 00:02:51,465 Sure. 43 00:02:51,595 --> 00:02:54,744 You know, uh, I want to say 2014, ...15. 44 00:02:54,745 --> 00:02:56,375 I have to go back to my LinkedIn. 45 00:02:56,695 --> 00:02:57,545 It's something like that. 46 00:02:57,865 --> 00:03:02,335 So I, I started there, um, as a, as a part-timer. 47 00:03:02,785 --> 00:03:05,524 Um, at the time I think it was just a technical assistant. 48 00:03:06,095 --> 00:03:08,134 And, um, our department was different. 49 00:03:08,154 --> 00:03:11,275 It was, um, TLITC, some acronym related. 50 00:03:11,275 --> 00:03:12,975 It's very technology-heavy. 51 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:13,970 Yeah, yeah. 52 00:03:13,970 --> 00:03:21,030 And so, um, over time, we've generally made a concerted effort to be more 53 00:03:21,030 --> 00:03:24,129 conscious of like the teaching and learning pedagogy, right, and 54 00:03:24,129 --> 00:03:25,850 strategy that you were referencing. 55 00:03:25,850 --> 00:03:29,460 And so we have a whole other leg to our department now that focuses on 56 00:03:29,470 --> 00:03:31,120 instructional design and all of this. 57 00:03:31,645 --> 00:03:37,895 But, um, but my origin story, um, or the prequel to Bunker Hill, um, 58 00:03:37,895 --> 00:03:39,525 I worked a number of different jobs. 59 00:03:39,525 --> 00:03:42,835 I worked, uh, at a bakery for a while. 60 00:03:42,835 --> 00:03:46,735 I've worked, uh, become supervisor at grocery stores, things like this. 61 00:03:47,065 --> 00:03:50,455 Kind of typical when you're, you know, juggling, uh, going to school at the 62 00:03:50,455 --> 00:03:55,335 same time, I went to, uh, actually went to Ben Franklin Institute of Technology. 63 00:03:55,765 --> 00:03:59,075 Uh, while I was juggling, um, you know, internships. 64 00:03:59,315 --> 00:04:02,815 I actually had an internship at uh, MGH for a while. 65 00:04:03,210 --> 00:04:07,990 And I was juggling being a supervisor at a Quincy stop and shop along with that. 66 00:04:07,990 --> 00:04:11,490 So it was very difficult days, especially when you're between 18 67 00:04:11,490 --> 00:04:13,930 and 20, and 21 - challenging time. 68 00:04:14,370 --> 00:04:15,330 Yeah. 69 00:04:15,620 --> 00:04:18,620 And so, um, over time. 70 00:04:18,885 --> 00:04:24,935 Uh, I kind of cut that off to, um, pursue, uh, music related things, which, you know, 71 00:04:24,935 --> 00:04:26,295 you alluded to before our conversation. 72 00:04:26,335 --> 00:04:28,535 Yeah, I saw your guitar in the background. 73 00:04:28,835 --> 00:04:29,275 For sure. 74 00:04:29,275 --> 00:04:34,154 And so I kind of decided, you know, I, I kind of want to pursue, uh, 75 00:04:34,194 --> 00:04:35,914 what I want to do for a while. 76 00:04:36,214 --> 00:04:40,165 And so I kind of turned all of that off just to pursue music. 77 00:04:40,455 --> 00:04:45,715 Um, For a few years and I haven't stopped necessarily, but I dropped 78 00:04:45,715 --> 00:04:49,255 all of the other things I was doing just to start my band with my brother. 79 00:04:49,474 --> 00:04:56,145 I play guitar and play like rock metal type stuff and My brother's the drummer 80 00:04:56,405 --> 00:05:00,924 we shuffled through a couple of different people as far as like bass player vocalist 81 00:05:00,935 --> 00:05:07,930 things like this And then over time we, we, we reached a point where I was like, 82 00:05:07,940 --> 00:05:12,810 okay, I need to get, um, a job and land it again and be a little more consistent. 83 00:05:13,050 --> 00:05:17,735 And so that's where I gained a, uh, A job working at this bakery, which wasn't 84 00:05:17,735 --> 00:05:21,765 the most pleasant experience, if I'm going to be honest, but I learned a lot. 85 00:05:21,975 --> 00:05:24,865 Um, I was only there for maybe two years and some change. 86 00:05:25,515 --> 00:05:29,415 And, um, I learned a lot about myself, what makes a good 87 00:05:29,415 --> 00:05:30,994 job and not such a good job. 88 00:05:30,994 --> 00:05:35,675 And, um, and working with people, working alongside people with 89 00:05:35,675 --> 00:05:38,385 people and, um, getting along. 90 00:05:38,715 --> 00:05:40,455 And, and so. 91 00:05:41,265 --> 00:05:45,025 After being there for two years, it was kind of mentally draining, 92 00:05:45,294 --> 00:05:48,695 um, on just me through and through. 93 00:05:48,695 --> 00:05:50,804 It even kind of almost killed my creativity. 94 00:05:51,504 --> 00:05:56,684 Then after that, uh, fast forwarding, I got a job at a senior living facility 95 00:05:56,844 --> 00:05:57,964 where I worked with the elderly. 96 00:05:57,964 --> 00:06:02,155 So I went from a kind of a brutal experience to a very humbling experience. 97 00:06:02,155 --> 00:06:06,775 I worked with the elderly and you know, they've have a litany of life 98 00:06:06,775 --> 00:06:08,564 experience, so much life experience. 99 00:06:08,564 --> 00:06:11,455 And the interesting thing is one of the... 100 00:06:12,635 --> 00:06:13,094 ...so that's... 101 00:06:13,114 --> 00:06:16,344 I started there at the Senior Living Center and then I started 102 00:06:16,344 --> 00:06:17,344 at Bunker Hill part time. 103 00:06:17,344 --> 00:06:19,335 So I started doing those at the same time. 104 00:06:19,915 --> 00:06:24,835 And at the time when I was working at Uh, Bunker Hill in the TLITC 105 00:06:24,835 --> 00:06:26,895 department, just working like 15 hours. 106 00:06:27,455 --> 00:06:28,895 The ePortfolio was there. 107 00:06:28,905 --> 00:06:30,565 Moodle was there, things like this. 108 00:06:31,395 --> 00:06:37,494 But I was kind of doubling down and, uh, trying to prove that I was, 109 00:06:37,844 --> 00:06:40,424 you know, worthy of being like a supervisor or something at the other 110 00:06:40,424 --> 00:06:41,924 job at the senior living facility. 111 00:06:42,285 --> 00:06:46,355 But it was more exhausting and, um, it was draining, um, physically. 112 00:06:46,555 --> 00:06:49,285 And Bunker Hill, you know, uh, it's working at a community college. 113 00:06:49,495 --> 00:06:51,075 You get to sit down, right? 114 00:06:51,075 --> 00:06:53,115 So that's one of the perks of, of. 115 00:06:53,565 --> 00:06:56,854 Uh, that type of job and amongst other things you get to work with 116 00:06:56,864 --> 00:06:59,905 people, people aren't, you know, it's not really a customer service 117 00:06:59,905 --> 00:07:03,294 type thing, or, you know, you're not getting shouted down necessarily. 118 00:07:03,814 --> 00:07:10,904 And so, um, and so for the most part, and so, um, overall Bunker Hill was 119 00:07:10,904 --> 00:07:15,135 the, the, the, the better, um, place that I was working, but for whatever 120 00:07:15,135 --> 00:07:16,844 reason, I had a wall in my mind. 121 00:07:16,844 --> 00:07:17,825 I, it didn't occur to me. 122 00:07:18,005 --> 00:07:22,385 And it was one of the, um, Very intelligent, older gentleman that 123 00:07:22,395 --> 00:07:24,675 worked at the senior living facility. 124 00:07:24,865 --> 00:07:26,195 I was talking to him about my dilemma. 125 00:07:26,195 --> 00:07:30,115 I was like, I really want to get, do well here and I'm, but I, I'm, I'm 126 00:07:30,115 --> 00:07:32,404 siloing myself into too many silos. 127 00:07:32,684 --> 00:07:34,934 So I have my band, I have this job, I have this job. 128 00:07:34,945 --> 00:07:35,974 Now I'm like split up. 129 00:07:36,425 --> 00:07:39,435 a little too, um, a little too much. 130 00:07:39,825 --> 00:07:44,954 And so, and I said, I'm trying to maybe leave Bunker Hill and then work at this 131 00:07:44,954 --> 00:07:46,345 place, but I want to get more hours. 132 00:07:46,345 --> 00:07:47,395 I want to be full time, all of this. 133 00:07:47,565 --> 00:07:50,754 And he said, why don't you ask Bunker Hill if you can do that? 134 00:07:50,765 --> 00:07:53,285 And I'm like, I don't know why that didn't occur to me. 135 00:07:53,585 --> 00:07:55,375 I, I, there was something about it. 136 00:07:55,585 --> 00:07:56,985 I don't know what it was exactly. 137 00:07:56,995 --> 00:08:00,315 Maybe I felt the need, like I had to work hard physically, like physically. 138 00:08:00,375 --> 00:08:06,494 I don't know what it was, but anyway, to cut the story a little bit, I went 139 00:08:06,494 --> 00:08:12,085 to Bunker Hill, um, and I talked with, she's still there now, Grace, about this. 140 00:08:12,085 --> 00:08:14,195 And at the time the director, uh, Danielle. 141 00:08:15,074 --> 00:08:19,335 And they were like, yeah, that will, you know, give us a day or two and we'll, 142 00:08:19,344 --> 00:08:20,544 we'll figure something out for you. 143 00:08:20,994 --> 00:08:26,624 And so, um, along with that, they gave me, they came with the responsibility of, 144 00:08:26,625 --> 00:08:30,115 okay, we're going to make you the point person for ePortfolio along with that. 145 00:08:30,295 --> 00:08:36,095 So I kind of started doing it cause we had, um, Uh, the previous e portfolio 146 00:08:36,095 --> 00:08:39,095 point person, full time person was, was on his way out the door. 147 00:08:39,275 --> 00:08:42,765 And so I was kind of passing the baton to me, but I was still part time as a 148 00:08:42,765 --> 00:08:46,135 little, um, kind of a soft pass, but they were like, you know, we're going to 149 00:08:46,135 --> 00:08:48,454 make you the person, the actual person. 150 00:08:48,454 --> 00:08:53,194 And so I took that and I was like, I don't want to just take it and 151 00:08:53,194 --> 00:08:54,795 shoulder shrug my way through the day. 152 00:08:54,985 --> 00:08:55,835 I want to try. 153 00:08:56,105 --> 00:08:59,525 And so anytime, and I've gotten this. 154 00:09:00,030 --> 00:09:03,990 A comment from many, uh, faculty and students, and I've inspired faculty 155 00:09:03,990 --> 00:09:07,830 in the way they teach, the way they animate themselves in the classroom. 156 00:09:07,830 --> 00:09:13,759 I've watched it, it's kind of, again, humbling to see them, um, well, so, and 157 00:09:13,759 --> 00:09:17,069 so what I started doing was I was very animated because I didn't want to just 158 00:09:17,079 --> 00:09:19,270 be a talking head in the room, right? 159 00:09:19,290 --> 00:09:22,260 If I was going to give a training and a professor wanted me to go to 160 00:09:22,260 --> 00:09:25,840 their classroom or they bring their students to our space and we show them 161 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,160 ePortfolio to a class of 20-odd students. 162 00:09:28,469 --> 00:09:31,089 These are students, some of them just out of high school and things like this. 163 00:09:31,369 --> 00:09:36,239 So, you know, uh, they might still be figuring things out with regards to them 164 00:09:36,239 --> 00:09:38,239 being enthusiastic about what things. 165 00:09:38,629 --> 00:09:38,739 Yeah. 166 00:09:38,740 --> 00:09:43,324 And so, you know, I wanted to like bring some humor to it, be 167 00:09:43,384 --> 00:09:45,194 more of a human, just be a person. 168 00:09:45,545 --> 00:09:50,924 And I found that that seemed to resonate very well with them. 169 00:09:51,314 --> 00:09:54,775 Um, even if the professor, some professors were using ePortfolio, 170 00:09:54,794 --> 00:09:59,204 let's say at 15 percent capacity, some use it at 40 percent capacity. 171 00:09:59,365 --> 00:10:02,395 Some just want students to just upload work like documents. 172 00:10:02,820 --> 00:10:05,710 You know, so there was different levels, no matter what the level was. 173 00:10:05,740 --> 00:10:11,290 I saw it as sort of a challenge to convince them and demonstrate to them. 174 00:10:11,510 --> 00:10:15,480 Hey, listen, it's not, yes, you're doing this for the class, but also these are 175 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:17,220 the great things that it can do too. 176 00:10:17,460 --> 00:10:18,920 You can post your resume on it. 177 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:19,889 You can add tabs. 178 00:10:19,890 --> 00:10:20,800 You can be creative. 179 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:22,000 You can express yourself. 180 00:10:22,330 --> 00:10:23,510 You can make it public. 181 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:28,199 You can post the link to any portfolio on the social media of your, your 182 00:10:28,199 --> 00:10:31,324 IG, social media, Twitter, Facebook, whatever you have, LinkedIn. 183 00:10:31,495 --> 00:10:32,594 You can do all of these things. 184 00:10:32,604 --> 00:10:36,435 It's not just this thing that's locked in a bunker hill, like a LMS 185 00:10:36,435 --> 00:10:38,255 or an email account or whatever. 186 00:10:38,444 --> 00:10:40,555 It's, it's meta, it's bigger than that. 187 00:10:40,724 --> 00:10:45,365 And so then there's how to build the ePortfolio, like adding 188 00:10:45,365 --> 00:10:46,585 the text boxes and things. 189 00:10:47,005 --> 00:10:48,729 And then there's how should. 190 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:50,910 How should you build the ePortfolio? 191 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,130 What should you put into it? 192 00:10:52,130 --> 00:10:54,250 What are the best things you could put into it? 193 00:10:54,619 --> 00:10:54,930 Right. 194 00:10:54,930 --> 00:10:59,089 So anyway, that's a little bit of the kind of the history of myself and 195 00:10:59,339 --> 00:11:02,860 where I've kind of taken ePortfolio, I think, in the past few years, so. 196 00:11:03,099 --> 00:11:04,990 Yeah, no, I love that. 197 00:11:04,990 --> 00:11:07,000 And thank you so much for sharing your story. 198 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,800 And I think it's a story that probably resonates a lot with 199 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,689 the community that you're working with too, often the students that. 200 00:11:14,430 --> 00:11:22,120 You're providing this initial introduction to not just the platform, 201 00:11:22,790 --> 00:11:28,220 kind of technical pieces, but how it's something that can support them in the 202 00:11:28,220 --> 00:11:34,129 classroom, but also beyond, um, you know, being that first person and, you 203 00:11:34,130 --> 00:11:38,650 know, for them to be able to connect with you, I think is really important. 204 00:11:38,710 --> 00:11:43,350 And again, not just having this talking head, but someone that's had some. 205 00:11:44,010 --> 00:11:47,710 Really true life experiences that I think would resonate with them 206 00:11:47,710 --> 00:11:53,590 as well and have that connection of balancing life and school and 207 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:58,859 working and making choices about what your career path is going to be. 208 00:11:59,359 --> 00:12:01,789 Um, you know, I think it's something that. 209 00:12:02,295 --> 00:12:06,475 You know, when you bring your, you know, your personality and your history 210 00:12:06,475 --> 00:12:11,575 and your true self into those training opportunities, it is a time for you 211 00:12:11,575 --> 00:12:15,744 to be able to kind of create those connections with the students, engage 212 00:12:15,744 --> 00:12:21,234 them in the conversation about the platform and how it can benefit them 213 00:12:21,484 --> 00:12:23,765 has really led to a lot of success. 214 00:12:25,015 --> 00:12:29,975 I can tell in looking at the students portfolios that when you're talking 215 00:12:29,975 --> 00:12:36,454 about, um, you know, being creative and using it as a place to kind of 216 00:12:36,455 --> 00:12:41,405 tell their story, that that's something that really resonates with them. 217 00:12:41,464 --> 00:12:47,744 You know, each one is very unique, even if it was created from a 218 00:12:47,744 --> 00:12:51,235 beginning template or something that they were using in their course. 219 00:12:51,735 --> 00:12:55,154 Most of the students I see are really going beyond just that. 220 00:12:55,709 --> 00:12:56,900 Initial Template. 221 00:12:57,230 --> 00:13:02,610 Could you talk a little bit maybe about some of the ideas that you give 222 00:13:02,610 --> 00:13:07,079 students for how they can apply their creativity, different tools that 223 00:13:07,079 --> 00:13:10,550 they might use, or different kinds of content they might add to their 224 00:13:10,589 --> 00:13:12,620 portfolios that could make it their own? 225 00:13:13,589 --> 00:13:14,019 Sure. 226 00:13:14,019 --> 00:13:14,349 Yeah. 227 00:13:14,349 --> 00:13:21,849 So, um, so I, I, I try to give examples, but it's a tricky thing because, um, 228 00:13:22,810 --> 00:13:29,550 with, wanting, uh, somebody or a party or your audience to be creative, um, you 229 00:13:29,550 --> 00:13:35,310 have to find the balance of show them an example, but you know, don't copy this, 230 00:13:35,510 --> 00:13:36,920 but this is what it could look like. 231 00:13:37,369 --> 00:13:41,070 It's a very, uh, tricky line to find. 232 00:13:41,390 --> 00:13:43,739 And it's something I still kind of struggle with a little bit. 233 00:13:45,369 --> 00:13:49,240 So I go through a bit of a spiel with them, uh, when I'm talking about 234 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,720 the career potential or the transfer potential and all of these things. 235 00:13:53,020 --> 00:13:53,669 And so. 236 00:13:54,145 --> 00:13:59,015 Um, what I can, I show them a few examples as I, as I mentioned, I might 237 00:13:59,015 --> 00:14:00,725 show them an example of ePortfolios. 238 00:14:00,725 --> 00:14:04,535 I think that, um, you all have in your, um, help desk site some of the 239 00:14:04,535 --> 00:14:07,505 best ones, like some of the ones from Chattanooga State and things like this. 240 00:14:07,945 --> 00:14:11,775 Um, and then I'll show them ePortfolios that won, um, an 241 00:14:11,775 --> 00:14:13,815 ePortfolio contest we held last year. 242 00:14:13,965 --> 00:14:15,555 So I'll show them a couple of examples of that. 243 00:14:15,975 --> 00:14:20,725 And so I, I, I show them that to, to illustrate that it's not just this. 244 00:14:21,145 --> 00:14:25,515 Uh, you know, simply white and black page with a bullet points on it. 245 00:14:25,815 --> 00:14:28,075 It's, um, it's got background color. 246 00:14:28,095 --> 00:14:31,295 So when I'm usually trying to tell them, I first tell them the files and 247 00:14:31,295 --> 00:14:36,394 the types of actual types of content you can add, images, documents, 248 00:14:36,415 --> 00:14:41,175 videos, text boxes, right, and you can manage backgrounds, broadly speaking. 249 00:14:41,175 --> 00:14:43,675 Obviously it's not limited to that, but generally speaking, these are 250 00:14:43,675 --> 00:14:46,805 the big things that most people think of when they're thinking of like 251 00:14:46,814 --> 00:14:49,825 building a portfolio or building a site or something like that. 252 00:14:50,334 --> 00:14:54,975 And so with image files I'll run through the types, uh, what PNG, there's the, 253 00:14:55,135 --> 00:15:00,675 the usual suspects, uh, videos would, uh, PNG, JPEG, videos would be MOV, 254 00:15:00,814 --> 00:15:04,864 MP4, there's a couple of oddballs that might act a little weird, but generally 255 00:15:04,864 --> 00:15:07,509 like the, The mainstay ones work well. 256 00:15:07,650 --> 00:15:12,400 File types aren't limited to, or generally not limited to Word docs, 257 00:15:12,439 --> 00:15:15,069 PDFs, Excel sheets, PowerPoints, right? 258 00:15:15,069 --> 00:15:16,050 You can upload them all. 259 00:15:16,129 --> 00:15:18,009 You can make them as big or as small as you want. 260 00:15:18,009 --> 00:15:18,959 You can move them around. 261 00:15:19,099 --> 00:15:23,109 And as I explain this, I'll have it behind me, or if it's in a call like 262 00:15:23,109 --> 00:15:26,129 this one, I'll have the screen shared and I'll show them an example of a 263 00:15:26,129 --> 00:15:28,259 portfolio that obviously did this. 264 00:15:28,689 --> 00:15:32,230 But you have a, and when you paste the document on there, it's not just a link. 265 00:15:32,565 --> 00:15:38,665 It's not just a hyperlink, it is, it displays the document for your viewers, 266 00:15:38,675 --> 00:15:42,515 for you, but for your viewers, and they can scroll up and down through it. 267 00:15:42,715 --> 00:15:47,124 These things might sound rudimentary and kind of elementary, but like, I 268 00:15:47,125 --> 00:15:50,494 find that explaining the things that are happening on the page, even if 269 00:15:50,494 --> 00:15:55,225 it's just a box, a picture with a face on it, and a text box next to it, 270 00:15:55,585 --> 00:15:59,085 explaining the different things that are happening on that simple page, um, 271 00:15:59,375 --> 00:16:03,665 helps the lights click on and it's very helpful when I'm usually in person. 272 00:16:03,865 --> 00:16:06,765 Um, and obviously faculty have echoed this post pandemic as well. 273 00:16:06,964 --> 00:16:11,355 It generally is perks and, you know, pros and cons to in person remote, 274 00:16:11,525 --> 00:16:14,604 but obviously when you're teaching people, you can see the lights go on. 275 00:16:14,924 --> 00:16:18,459 Um, and I noticed that if I simply, if I simply explain 276 00:16:18,459 --> 00:16:24,745 ePortfolio at them, It doesn't quite hit like it's a visual thing. 277 00:16:24,745 --> 00:16:26,465 And that's one of the things you all say as well. 278 00:16:26,465 --> 00:16:27,125 And it's true. 279 00:16:27,245 --> 00:16:31,795 It is a visual medium of showcasing and presenting things about you, 280 00:16:31,935 --> 00:16:36,405 your career, things you've done, accomplishments, personal life, etc. 281 00:16:36,475 --> 00:16:37,245 It's visual. 282 00:16:37,275 --> 00:16:39,194 So it, I should be visual with it. 283 00:16:39,295 --> 00:16:40,055 I should show them. 284 00:16:40,345 --> 00:16:40,645 Right. 285 00:16:40,685 --> 00:16:44,325 And again, this is one of those things that, you know, kind of goes back 286 00:16:44,325 --> 00:16:48,130 to teaching and learning pedagogy is like, You don't want to have, uh, 287 00:16:48,140 --> 00:16:51,510 just a PowerPoint slide with just words on it with bullet points, right? 288 00:16:51,510 --> 00:16:55,100 You would want to have actual images, and so I take it a step further than that 289 00:16:55,100 --> 00:16:56,569 personally, and this is my preference. 290 00:16:56,780 --> 00:16:58,030 I like to show them the site. 291 00:16:58,280 --> 00:16:59,760 I don't really use a PowerPoint. 292 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:00,709 I don't use a slideshow. 293 00:17:00,709 --> 00:17:02,690 I like to show them, here's how I log in. 294 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:03,680 I'm doing it. 295 00:17:03,959 --> 00:17:05,800 This is how you're going to do it. 296 00:17:06,020 --> 00:17:08,960 You know, instead of just like, it seems, it sometimes it can feel too 297 00:17:08,970 --> 00:17:14,119 separate for students and varying ages, varying demographics, things like this. 298 00:17:14,470 --> 00:17:19,200 Um, I find that the most effective thing is to have the actual 299 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:20,579 site on the page and explain it. 300 00:17:21,430 --> 00:17:24,770 And then to actually, uh, hit on the other part of your question, 301 00:17:24,900 --> 00:17:29,130 the types of things I'll show are, um, it's kind of a silly example. 302 00:17:30,339 --> 00:17:33,480 Um, is let's say somebody worked at a stop and shop or a grocery store 303 00:17:33,790 --> 00:17:36,940 on a resume, you could have a bullet point on there that says I worked at 304 00:17:36,940 --> 00:17:38,409 a grocery store for five years, right? 305 00:17:38,409 --> 00:17:40,239 And I'll literally say it like that to them. 306 00:17:40,450 --> 00:17:43,820 Or if you, in addition to that, you could have your ePortfolio. 307 00:17:44,070 --> 00:17:48,490 And if you did the Jimmy Fund one year and your friend that was trying 308 00:17:48,490 --> 00:17:52,309 to mess with you, they saw you giving out hot dogs in the front of the store 309 00:17:52,310 --> 00:17:54,610 with the apron, they took a picture of you and you saw it and you're 310 00:17:54,610 --> 00:17:56,030 like, you know, that's not half bad. 311 00:17:56,329 --> 00:17:58,569 You know, they're just messing with you, but it's actually a decent picture. 312 00:17:58,730 --> 00:18:02,240 Well, you can take that picture, throw it in your ePortfolio and put a a thing next, 313 00:18:02,290 --> 00:18:04,240 a little text box or something next to it. 314 00:18:04,624 --> 00:18:13,254 That says, I, I, uh, contributed to the, um, the growth of the Jimmy fund 315 00:18:13,254 --> 00:18:16,914 while working at Stop and Shop, I was designated as the point person to give 316 00:18:16,915 --> 00:18:20,594 out Jimmy fund tickets in order to, you know, and then you can fill in the 317 00:18:20,594 --> 00:18:23,314 rest of the definition for what the Jimmy funds initiative are, are, right. 318 00:18:23,475 --> 00:18:25,735 So it's, it's something so, so simple. 319 00:18:25,945 --> 00:18:29,564 Another example I gave was, um, the last couple of weeks with a 320 00:18:29,564 --> 00:18:32,544 couple of other staff members, I was running around, physically running 321 00:18:32,544 --> 00:18:33,764 around the Bunker Hill campus. 322 00:18:34,070 --> 00:18:36,620 Uh, giving out flyers for the ePortfolio Contest. 323 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,100 Um, and I had some other staff doing that and staffed out front. 324 00:18:40,530 --> 00:18:44,399 And so one of the things I said to them was one of the cool things you can do 325 00:18:44,399 --> 00:18:50,409 is if I take a picture of me with my flyer, my handout, handing it to you and 326 00:18:50,409 --> 00:18:55,014 I have my staff member take a picture of it, for whatever reason, employers And 327 00:18:55,185 --> 00:18:59,344 that's not to disparage employers because I've hired people too, we eat that up. 328 00:18:59,465 --> 00:19:03,794 If you see a picture of me handing a student a flyer and next to it I put 329 00:19:04,125 --> 00:19:10,535 boosted student engagement, uh, while engaging while creating an atmosphere 330 00:19:10,535 --> 00:19:15,815 for them to You know, contribute to building their ePortfolio, um, 331 00:19:16,034 --> 00:19:20,504 while boosting the initiatives of the contest and ePortfolio and Digication 332 00:19:20,514 --> 00:19:24,065 Initiative, while also giving them a platform to do this and this and this. 333 00:19:24,835 --> 00:19:27,705 You can have a little text box next to that image as well. 334 00:19:27,935 --> 00:19:30,704 So I kind of give some of those examples to them as well. 335 00:19:31,114 --> 00:19:36,355 Other examples I might give are explaining a, like a photography portfolio, right? 336 00:19:36,355 --> 00:19:41,284 So if they, if a student wanted to build a, um, So I usually give them, okay, you 337 00:19:41,284 --> 00:19:42,885 have an about me page, things like this. 338 00:19:42,885 --> 00:19:43,965 That's kind of a typical thing. 339 00:19:43,965 --> 00:19:47,305 I'll show those examples, but then I'll say it's not just limited to that. 340 00:19:47,485 --> 00:19:51,504 If you want it to, it doesn't have to be about you per se. 341 00:19:51,804 --> 00:19:55,184 It's kind of one of the big things that it should be about, or, 342 00:19:55,215 --> 00:19:58,329 you know, a lot of times, but it doesn't necessarily have to be. 343 00:19:58,610 --> 00:20:01,870 And so I opened them up to this idea of like you can make a photography portfolio. 344 00:20:02,210 --> 00:20:07,669 And so a lot of VMA, uh, Visual Media Arts classes, will, um, have 345 00:20:07,670 --> 00:20:10,909 their students create ePortfolios, um, with kind of that purpose. 346 00:20:11,070 --> 00:20:12,070 But it'll be a hybrid. 347 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,950 So it'll be about me, so it'll, it'll still have that page. 348 00:20:16,350 --> 00:20:19,790 They'll have their reflective components, and they might have a tab that just 349 00:20:19,790 --> 00:20:22,270 says Photos, or Photography, right? 350 00:20:22,300 --> 00:20:26,149 And it's They have sub pages within there that showcase different photography. 351 00:20:26,149 --> 00:20:27,840 They took it, taken in different places. 352 00:20:28,370 --> 00:20:31,700 Um, and then there's another student that took a VMA class and 353 00:20:31,730 --> 00:20:34,800 was a, um, was in a writing class. 354 00:20:35,159 --> 00:20:37,980 And so I think that was one of the winners of the contest last year. 355 00:20:37,980 --> 00:20:39,240 Um, Cleo. 356 00:20:39,679 --> 00:20:40,290 And so. 357 00:20:40,879 --> 00:20:46,200 She had photography, she had poetry, she had, um, you know, things about her. 358 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:48,990 And the pages weren't necessarily long. 359 00:20:49,020 --> 00:20:50,210 They weren't really busy. 360 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:53,189 And when I show students that, you know, that page is kind of simplistic, 361 00:20:53,189 --> 00:20:54,819 they're like, Oh, is that it? 362 00:20:54,819 --> 00:20:56,310 I'm like, yeah, that's it. 363 00:20:56,430 --> 00:21:00,930 It doesn't have to be this like huge website, like Amazon or Best Buy. 364 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:04,230 Like you're not doing all that, you know, it's, it can be simpler. 365 00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:06,660 Um, but it, it is one of those things. 366 00:21:07,299 --> 00:21:10,779 Where the more you put into it, and by more I don't mean quantity, 367 00:21:11,009 --> 00:21:14,749 but the more you put into it, the more you can get out of it. 368 00:21:15,069 --> 00:21:18,010 So it transcends just that one class you're taking where you want to 369 00:21:18,010 --> 00:21:19,779 get an A on your homework, right? 370 00:21:19,809 --> 00:21:24,399 So that's one of the, that's my overall, some of my pitch that I kind of give them. 371 00:21:24,860 --> 00:21:30,670 Yeah, and that's so beneficial because really what you're incorporating 372 00:21:30,750 --> 00:21:37,810 into the introduction to the platform and, you know, how to use the various 373 00:21:37,839 --> 00:21:41,880 tools is really these elements of digital storytelling, right? 374 00:21:42,625 --> 00:21:47,955 You're letting them know these are really simple ways that you can start 375 00:21:47,965 --> 00:21:55,165 to bring viewers into the ePortfolio in a way that's very different from 376 00:21:55,174 --> 00:21:57,634 someone just reading a resume, right? 377 00:21:57,634 --> 00:22:02,655 You spoke about the kind of bullets that you might have in the resume that might 378 00:22:02,665 --> 00:22:07,305 just have a, you know, name of your position and the dates that you were 379 00:22:07,305 --> 00:22:09,785 there, and that's a really different. 380 00:22:10,590 --> 00:22:16,449 format than having something like this where you can start to have images 381 00:22:16,449 --> 00:22:21,599 of what you may have done within the particular role or, you know, 382 00:22:21,620 --> 00:22:28,490 other forms of, uh, media that may be incorporated, reflections on the 383 00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:35,275 experience, and That information is very valuable to people that may be viewing 384 00:22:35,275 --> 00:22:39,025 your ePortfolio for hiring purposes. 385 00:22:39,415 --> 00:22:44,864 It goes so much deeper than just kind of the, you know, name of your position 386 00:22:44,865 --> 00:22:46,394 and the time that you were there. 387 00:22:46,405 --> 00:22:53,525 For them to see any opportunities you had for personal growth or leadership 388 00:22:53,525 --> 00:22:57,835 opportunities that you had, community engagement kinds of opportunities. 389 00:22:57,835 --> 00:22:58,945 These are all showing. 390 00:22:59,435 --> 00:23:04,475 Skills that people at all different levels are interested in people having 391 00:23:04,475 --> 00:23:06,245 when they're joining their organization. 392 00:23:06,245 --> 00:23:09,255 So anytime you have a chance to highlight that. 393 00:23:09,265 --> 00:23:15,225 So it's wonderful that you're incorporating that kind of, um, 394 00:23:15,354 --> 00:23:19,985 information into the trainings and something that I think You know, 395 00:23:19,985 --> 00:23:25,625 our listeners will really value as well that it's not just about, you 396 00:23:25,625 --> 00:23:29,254 know, this is where you go to log in, you know, that's the first step. 397 00:23:30,904 --> 00:23:36,495 Um, but really how can you use technology like this as this kind 398 00:23:36,495 --> 00:23:43,244 of creation space to build this kind of story of who you are and what you 399 00:23:43,244 --> 00:23:45,284 really want people to know about you. 400 00:23:45,645 --> 00:23:50,785 Um, so it's wonderful that you're giving them these kind of real world examples 401 00:23:50,825 --> 00:23:56,674 and sharing, you know, what some other students at the institution have done. 402 00:23:56,704 --> 00:24:02,474 I was trying to think back how many years you've been, um, having this. 403 00:24:02,990 --> 00:24:08,730 showcase where the the students are really participating in a in a contest 404 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:15,639 and submitting their ePortfolios for review and I would love for you to 405 00:24:15,639 --> 00:24:17,219 share a little bit about that too. 406 00:24:17,220 --> 00:24:21,839 I think other institutions would love to hear about ways that you've been 407 00:24:21,839 --> 00:24:26,959 able to kind of get students excited about sharing their portfolios and. 408 00:24:27,510 --> 00:24:30,640 You know, I think the contest probably lends some additional 409 00:24:30,670 --> 00:24:32,860 kind of peer motivation. 410 00:24:32,870 --> 00:24:36,249 You know, they know other people are going to be looking at it and seeing it. 411 00:24:36,250 --> 00:24:41,660 And, um, I believe you even have a rubric that you use to go through 412 00:24:41,660 --> 00:24:43,439 and kind of score those submissions. 413 00:24:43,450 --> 00:24:45,695 So Tell us a little bit about that too. 414 00:24:45,695 --> 00:24:49,105 I think it's a wonderful model that other schools might be interested in. 415 00:24:49,625 --> 00:24:50,145 For sure. 416 00:24:50,145 --> 00:24:56,785 Um, so we had, um, we ran the ePortfolio contest in the mid 2010s a few times. 417 00:24:57,064 --> 00:25:02,525 Um, I, I wasn't, um, I wasn't the ePortfolio person at that time, of course. 418 00:25:02,785 --> 00:25:04,825 Um, we've recently brought it back. 419 00:25:05,264 --> 00:25:10,175 Um, last year was the first time we had it again since, I don't know, 420 00:25:10,175 --> 00:25:12,545 probably maybe 2016 or something. 421 00:25:12,545 --> 00:25:16,314 So, Um, so it was a little tricky, so, but it was ran a few times. 422 00:25:16,445 --> 00:25:19,235 It was like a spring, fall, spring, fall that they did back then. 423 00:25:19,415 --> 00:25:24,845 But anyway, so last year we, we, um, relaunched it and. 424 00:25:25,429 --> 00:25:30,749 It was a little, um, it, it was not foreign, but it was a little, it was a 425 00:25:30,749 --> 00:25:35,920 little tricky for us at first because, well, if you work anywhere, really, 426 00:25:36,070 --> 00:25:40,649 you, you know, if you working, um, in an industry where you're working in a 427 00:25:40,650 --> 00:25:44,400 factory or you're packaging boxes and Amazon, or you're, you're just trying 428 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:49,390 to, uh, get your seat, you know, your boss, it's their coffee for the day. 429 00:25:49,550 --> 00:25:53,249 You're not really thinking in like contest mode and building enthusiasm and. 430 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,570 Things like this, you know, you're kind of just running, you know, you're just kind 431 00:25:57,570 --> 00:26:00,170 of running the cog that is your position. 432 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:06,449 And so this, this led to a unique dynamic, I think, for our department 433 00:26:06,459 --> 00:26:12,560 to think and consider, um, how we can engage students to be interested in this. 434 00:26:12,990 --> 00:26:17,070 You know, is it, is it, um, you know, like I explained a minute ago, 435 00:26:17,090 --> 00:26:20,840 is it we, us running around and we have as many posters as possible 436 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,199 and as many handouts as possible and we have people staffed at a table. 437 00:26:24,570 --> 00:26:28,040 Is it talking to specific faculty who may be interested? 438 00:26:28,250 --> 00:26:32,700 Is it talking to the faculty that are already using ePortfolio and say, Hey, 439 00:26:33,110 --> 00:26:35,079 just FYI, there's a contest coming up. 440 00:26:35,289 --> 00:26:36,290 Here's the timing of it. 441 00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:39,249 I know you usually like to do your ePortfolio trainings at the end of 442 00:26:39,249 --> 00:26:42,770 the semester, but maybe, you know, you think consider the beginning. 443 00:26:43,149 --> 00:26:47,360 Um, some of that was a little, um, tricky to navigate. 444 00:26:48,389 --> 00:26:53,084 Uh, the, the, the nice thing about, Last year was, it was my first go 445 00:26:53,105 --> 00:26:57,915 at doing it and for the supervisor above me, Uju as well, it was her 446 00:26:57,915 --> 00:27:00,074 first go, like, really tackling this. 447 00:27:00,074 --> 00:27:02,635 So we were like, you know what, if we make a few mistakes and we, you 448 00:27:02,635 --> 00:27:04,514 know, not super perfect, it's okay. 449 00:27:05,004 --> 00:27:07,844 So, and I, overall, I think it went fairly well. 450 00:27:08,134 --> 00:27:14,000 Um, so anyways, we, um, So the format we went with was, um, we would open 451 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:19,160 the contest, we used the Digication courses, um, the courses in Digication 452 00:27:19,490 --> 00:27:21,659 as the sort of group sign up. 453 00:27:22,095 --> 00:27:26,794 component so that students feel like they're tangibly signing up and we need 454 00:27:26,794 --> 00:27:30,794 them to anyway, but um, so they're, they're basically clicking that enroll 455 00:27:30,794 --> 00:27:32,934 button to join the course, right? 456 00:27:32,935 --> 00:27:35,375 And that's their way of, of uh, signing up for it. 457 00:27:35,545 --> 00:27:37,484 And so it does a few things. 458 00:27:37,484 --> 00:27:38,995 One, it gets them to sign in. 459 00:27:39,005 --> 00:27:41,195 If they've never logged into Digication, their account 460 00:27:41,195 --> 00:27:43,575 doesn't necessarily spawn, right? 461 00:27:43,575 --> 00:27:48,375 So they need to log into it, um, and then it spawns their account, um, which 462 00:27:48,385 --> 00:27:49,735 it exists, but you know what I mean? 463 00:27:49,965 --> 00:27:50,595 And so. 464 00:27:50,930 --> 00:27:53,080 Um, in addition to that, they enroll in the contest. 465 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:53,800 And so they're signed up. 466 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,590 So they're in the list of the, um, people in the people column, right. 467 00:27:57,780 --> 00:28:01,460 Um, in the actual, um, contest group or course. 468 00:28:02,070 --> 00:28:03,260 Um, and so. 469 00:28:03,625 --> 00:28:08,255 Once that's done, we also had a, we built an ePortfolio page 470 00:28:08,645 --> 00:28:10,375 for the ePortfolio contest. 471 00:28:10,665 --> 00:28:16,675 Um, and so we, um, make created handouts with QR codes and things like this, and 472 00:28:16,675 --> 00:28:22,014 we would have students scan them and that would take them to the signup page. 473 00:28:22,445 --> 00:28:25,315 And the signup page isn't just a signup page. 474 00:28:25,695 --> 00:28:30,145 It goes over, um, what the prizes are, which we, last year and 475 00:28:30,145 --> 00:28:36,114 this year as well, we did two 250 prizes, and we did two 100 prizes. 476 00:28:36,585 --> 00:28:40,704 We kind of did two categories, um, for each one of those. 477 00:28:40,994 --> 00:28:45,690 One, we did a, um, Sort of a personal slash hobby portfolio. 478 00:28:45,970 --> 00:28:49,420 The other one was, uh, professional slash academic. 479 00:28:49,870 --> 00:28:50,940 Um, and they were both 250. 480 00:28:50,940 --> 00:28:55,240 The other prizes of 100, 100 were audience choice. 481 00:28:55,509 --> 00:28:57,270 I'll put those aside for, for now. 482 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,480 The two, two 250 prizes are the, obviously the bigger selling 483 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:02,800 point to get people at least in. 484 00:29:03,519 --> 00:29:07,330 So we have a little description about the contest and the same 485 00:29:07,389 --> 00:29:09,149 ePortfolio page, we created a video. 486 00:29:09,530 --> 00:29:10,060 And. 487 00:29:10,505 --> 00:29:15,245 Um, I, we have a couple of people in our, um, department who are 488 00:29:15,325 --> 00:29:16,945 quite good at making nice videos. 489 00:29:17,175 --> 00:29:21,085 Um, I'm pretty decent myself, but obviously I'm siloed in a number 490 00:29:21,085 --> 00:29:22,855 of, of, I wear a number of hats. 491 00:29:23,185 --> 00:29:25,685 So that's a little challenging for me to get around to do, which is a 492 00:29:25,685 --> 00:29:26,925 shame because I do kind of like it. 493 00:29:27,175 --> 00:29:28,985 I do like doing it, but that's okay. 494 00:29:29,485 --> 00:29:33,725 Um, so anyway, we create videos of how to sign up for the contest, even though 495 00:29:33,725 --> 00:29:38,865 it's a one minute, 30 second video, it's You have to create a video because, I 496 00:29:38,865 --> 00:29:41,975 mean, unless, you know, there's other ways you can consider having people 497 00:29:41,975 --> 00:29:47,765 sign up for the contest, but for us, what worked fairly well last year, even 498 00:29:47,765 --> 00:29:50,765 though it seemed, might seem like a number of steps and a little odd for 499 00:29:50,765 --> 00:29:54,665 students, if you're just with that, there with them, um, they'll sign up. 500 00:29:54,865 --> 00:29:58,655 And when we send out, we send out emails as well to the whole campus of students 501 00:29:58,975 --> 00:30:00,455 saying, Hey, sign up for the contest. 502 00:30:00,455 --> 00:30:01,185 This is what it is. 503 00:30:01,195 --> 00:30:02,195 Here's the link to sign up. 504 00:30:02,625 --> 00:30:06,315 They sign up, so they're able to do it, and they're able to figure it out. 505 00:30:06,635 --> 00:30:10,975 But the trick to that is you have to link how to sign up, and in my opinion, 506 00:30:10,985 --> 00:30:12,825 video is the best modality to do that. 507 00:30:13,905 --> 00:30:16,525 Have the video be, you know, decent quality. 508 00:30:16,525 --> 00:30:20,165 A little music in the background, but it shouldn't be in your face. 509 00:30:20,615 --> 00:30:21,545 And instructional. 510 00:30:21,775 --> 00:30:25,705 So you want to have it go through like a normal how to tutorial, right? 511 00:30:25,705 --> 00:30:26,905 An actual how to guide. 512 00:30:27,235 --> 00:30:29,340 Um, and then, That shows them how to sign up. 513 00:30:29,340 --> 00:30:31,910 Click here, zoom into the button, click that, right? 514 00:30:32,220 --> 00:30:34,950 So anyway, we create the video and it's, you know, great. 515 00:30:35,430 --> 00:30:36,550 We have people sign up. 516 00:30:36,850 --> 00:30:40,140 Um, we outline on the page our contest guidelines and that goes 517 00:30:40,140 --> 00:30:41,510 to the rubric that you mentioned. 518 00:30:41,810 --> 00:30:45,900 So the ePortfolio Contest Rubric is linked on our page because that's what 519 00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:48,600 our judges use to judge the ePortfolios. 520 00:30:49,550 --> 00:30:54,510 So, so that's basically the experience for the student in the beginning. 521 00:30:54,900 --> 00:30:58,670 So, I want to say like mid late August is when we have 522 00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:01,120 people sign up for the contest. 523 00:31:01,630 --> 00:31:03,650 Um, or we at least open it up for sign up. 524 00:31:03,650 --> 00:31:07,230 I should say we try to promote as much as possible and then. 525 00:31:08,245 --> 00:31:10,095 The submission phase then comes in. 526 00:31:10,345 --> 00:31:16,445 So we open the contest up for submission on, um, I want to say it was the end 527 00:31:16,445 --> 00:31:17,615 of September, something like that. 528 00:31:17,615 --> 00:31:21,055 So we give from end of September to the end of October, we 529 00:31:21,055 --> 00:31:22,285 open it up for submission. 530 00:31:22,815 --> 00:31:26,550 And, There's a few reasons we did this because we could have, 531 00:31:26,970 --> 00:31:30,060 we could have opened it up for signup and for submission. 532 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:35,660 The reason we didn't do that was because we wanted to open it up for so 533 00:31:35,660 --> 00:31:39,170 students could submit multiple times in case they submitted by accident. 534 00:31:39,780 --> 00:31:40,170 Right. 535 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,770 So, and, but the trick was, if we did that too early, we opened up the submissions 536 00:31:44,770 --> 00:31:49,880 too early, some students might have 30 submissions and it might get a little, 537 00:31:50,020 --> 00:31:51,880 it might be a bit of a lot, right? 538 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,320 It might be a lot for them. 539 00:31:53,570 --> 00:31:58,570 And so what we decided was, okay, that month period makes sense. 540 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:04,250 Um, and we wanted the, um, the language of what we were saying to people to 541 00:32:04,260 --> 00:32:06,330 be different in different phases. 542 00:32:06,550 --> 00:32:09,640 Sign up for the portfolio contest, sign up, sign up, sign up. 543 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:10,250 And then. 544 00:32:11,150 --> 00:32:14,710 Attention students, now it's time, now that you've worked on your ePortfolios 545 00:32:14,730 --> 00:32:18,980 and you've been working on them, ePortfolios are now open for submission. 546 00:32:19,110 --> 00:32:22,000 You can submit, join the aid lab, or drop in with us, and 547 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,280 you can drop in for submission. 548 00:32:23,490 --> 00:32:28,990 Right, so we wanted to also stagger it in turn, uh, for the students to 549 00:32:29,130 --> 00:32:34,110 get used to the concept of logging in, signing up, and then making a portfolio. 550 00:32:34,140 --> 00:32:38,635 Like, that's kind of A lot for brand new students as it is like they're this 551 00:32:38,635 --> 00:32:41,875 is sort of a bond to add it on to their courses That they're already taking 552 00:32:41,875 --> 00:32:43,775 their math courses English course etc. 553 00:32:44,045 --> 00:32:49,035 So it's it's extra Um, and you know, we are open to help them But you know, and 554 00:32:49,035 --> 00:32:52,335 obviously not all students are going to drop in for help every step of the 555 00:32:52,335 --> 00:33:00,255 way so We'd find that staggering the, um, release phases was more effective. 556 00:33:00,535 --> 00:33:04,785 Um, I think, and so we did the same thing this year, um, about a month for 557 00:33:04,785 --> 00:33:08,235 submission, but they can also like new people can still sign up, so you can 558 00:33:08,235 --> 00:33:09,765 still sign up for the submission phase. 559 00:33:09,765 --> 00:33:14,465 You can sign up even the last day, uh, October 29 or whatever it was, they 560 00:33:14,465 --> 00:33:16,735 could sign up and still submit as well. 561 00:33:16,785 --> 00:33:19,425 Work with us for an hour if they wanted to. 562 00:33:19,425 --> 00:33:19,735 Right. 563 00:33:20,225 --> 00:33:21,765 Um, and then we have it. 564 00:33:22,545 --> 00:33:24,225 A month period for our judges. 565 00:33:24,465 --> 00:33:28,035 So we, um, pay, uh, at this semester. 566 00:33:28,035 --> 00:33:30,755 Last year, I think we did six, but this year we're doing five judges. 567 00:33:30,775 --> 00:33:35,185 And so we're, we reached out to some faculty, reached out to some staff, um, 568 00:33:35,205 --> 00:33:38,175 and we tried to be nuanced in our choices. 569 00:33:38,175 --> 00:33:43,035 So I try to have one staff, one faculty member from the MA, one 570 00:33:43,045 --> 00:33:48,615 from, uh, ELL, that's, um, uh, ESL, the English Second Language faculty. 571 00:33:48,885 --> 00:33:52,585 One from business, one from, uh, sociology, right? 572 00:33:52,785 --> 00:33:56,605 Just different, um, types and different perspectives to be 573 00:33:56,605 --> 00:33:57,485 able to judge the contest. 574 00:33:57,495 --> 00:34:00,135 You don't want to silo all the way into just VMA people. 575 00:34:00,135 --> 00:34:02,215 You don't want to be all English faculty. 576 00:34:02,215 --> 00:34:05,985 So it seemed like the right move, I don't know, to have different 577 00:34:05,985 --> 00:34:07,785 faculty from these different areas. 578 00:34:08,025 --> 00:34:11,545 And so we've done that and we give them about a month to judge. 579 00:34:11,695 --> 00:34:16,945 So we just actually, maybe last week even, um, turned off the submissions. 580 00:34:17,205 --> 00:34:22,710 So Submissions are done, but now it's turned over to the faculty, which again, 581 00:34:22,790 --> 00:34:28,200 we made a video for them and instructional material for them on how to judge. 582 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:29,780 So that was the next piece of this. 583 00:34:29,780 --> 00:34:32,470 So we had to make materials for the students on how to do things. 584 00:34:32,795 --> 00:34:35,855 But then we had to make things for our faculty on how to do things 585 00:34:35,855 --> 00:34:39,265 for the contest so that they can navigate it and not be lost. 586 00:34:39,275 --> 00:34:41,575 And, and we want it to be a good experience for them. 587 00:34:41,585 --> 00:34:45,465 Like that's one of the other things too, that I was mentioning, um, earlier with a 588 00:34:45,465 --> 00:34:49,285 different topic is that I didn't want to just shoulder shrug my way through this. 589 00:34:49,495 --> 00:34:50,035 I want. 590 00:34:50,430 --> 00:34:55,420 If, even if they're, you know, judging 20, 30, 40, 50 ePortfolios, 591 00:34:55,780 --> 00:35:02,440 I want it to be like fun for them, or I want it to be, um, unique. 592 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,650 And I want, so one of our staff members, he made a, uh, a judge video. 593 00:35:06,650 --> 00:35:07,710 Maybe I'll send it to you after this. 594 00:35:08,010 --> 00:35:09,110 Absolutely hilarious. 595 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:15,365 It's in the style of like old 1940s, 50s, Mickey Mouse, and it's really a 596 00:35:15,365 --> 00:35:17,155 silly video, but it's instructional. 597 00:35:17,465 --> 00:35:18,295 It's so funny. 598 00:35:18,955 --> 00:35:22,185 And I, I just saw it last week and I was like, Cam, you're 599 00:35:22,185 --> 00:35:23,745 ridiculous, but it's great. 600 00:35:23,745 --> 00:35:25,935 I was like that, that I didn't even have to tell you to do this. 601 00:35:26,035 --> 00:35:30,065 You already knew, um, that this is what I, what we were shooting for. 602 00:35:30,205 --> 00:35:33,575 So I want it to be a special thing, not just this obligatory thing 603 00:35:33,575 --> 00:35:37,095 where you're, you know, doing it, grading students, getting paid. 604 00:35:37,275 --> 00:35:37,765 That's it. 605 00:35:38,085 --> 00:35:39,185 Nah, that's fine. 606 00:35:39,185 --> 00:35:42,250 But While you're doing it, let's have, you know, enjoy it 607 00:35:42,250 --> 00:35:43,440 a little or have fun with it. 608 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:48,850 And, um, really for us have that, that aid stamp, like you worked with our 609 00:35:48,850 --> 00:35:53,130 department aid and it was a unique experience from other experiences and 610 00:35:53,180 --> 00:35:55,600 it was ePortfolio, different experience. 611 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,090 That's not like other experiences working with other things, right? 612 00:35:58,090 --> 00:36:02,590 So we wanted it to be as, as pleasant and as fun as possible for them. 613 00:36:02,590 --> 00:36:02,890 Right. 614 00:36:03,330 --> 00:36:07,230 And so, yeah, they get a month to judge and then we'll announce the winners. 615 00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:09,050 Um, I think we have December 3rd. 616 00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:13,590 I have it pulled up on the side here, December 3rd to, um, announce the exact. 617 00:36:14,035 --> 00:36:19,935 The winners of the two 250 prizes, then we'll have a contest, uh, sort 618 00:36:19,935 --> 00:36:21,925 of celebration in person event. 619 00:36:22,495 --> 00:36:24,915 Um, we're still working through the logistics of that now, 620 00:36:25,045 --> 00:36:26,635 but that will be December 10. 621 00:36:27,145 --> 00:36:31,105 Again, we're trying to balance not too close to finals, but when 622 00:36:31,105 --> 00:36:34,595 people are freaking out, you know, again, that's another tricky thing. 623 00:36:34,885 --> 00:36:37,205 It's very tricky balancing these things, right? 624 00:36:38,710 --> 00:36:42,880 And so, um, so we're having that event and I think it'll be fun. 625 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,160 We'll have pizza, Jenga. 626 00:36:44,410 --> 00:36:45,920 Uh, we're going to make it, we did it last year. 627 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,140 It was kind of last minute, but it went well. 628 00:36:48,370 --> 00:36:50,850 And I was like, I want to act now that we have time to plan it. 629 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:51,840 I want to do it better. 630 00:36:51,870 --> 00:36:54,040 So we're going to have giant Jenga, maybe giant. 631 00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:58,030 Cornhole connect for whatever, just silly things going on while 632 00:36:58,030 --> 00:37:01,960 people, uh, come into our area or maybe we'll have it in the hallway. 633 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:02,750 If we can reserve it. 634 00:37:02,750 --> 00:37:03,360 I don't know. 635 00:37:03,750 --> 00:37:09,455 Um, Love pizza, snacks, but the catch is, uh, students come in there 636 00:37:09,455 --> 00:37:13,455 and the point of it is to vote on the audience choice ePortfolio. 637 00:37:13,955 --> 00:37:16,655 So we'll send out an email for the audience choice and we'll 638 00:37:16,655 --> 00:37:18,035 determine the winner that day. 639 00:37:18,745 --> 00:37:24,625 So we'll probably choose, I'll go back a tiny bit, but so the audience choice 640 00:37:24,655 --> 00:37:31,805 ePortfolios will acquire the candidates from the maybe top six or top seven. 641 00:37:31,845 --> 00:37:32,195 Okay. 642 00:37:32,195 --> 00:37:32,395 Yeah. 643 00:37:32,395 --> 00:37:37,395 I was curious on all the submissions, how many kind of move on to that next level? 644 00:37:37,935 --> 00:37:38,615 Exactly. 645 00:37:38,705 --> 00:37:42,615 So the two grand prize winners will be the two that were highest rated by the judges. 646 00:37:42,905 --> 00:37:45,005 But then we'll have a bunch of honorable mentions, right? 647 00:37:45,005 --> 00:37:47,295 We'll have some really good ePortfolios and it's like, oh, it's a shame. 648 00:37:47,295 --> 00:37:48,265 We can't do anything with them. 649 00:37:48,265 --> 00:37:48,805 They didn't win anything. 650 00:37:49,005 --> 00:37:51,015 Well, we can do something with them. 651 00:37:51,015 --> 00:37:52,205 We can nominate them. 652 00:37:52,465 --> 00:37:58,445 So that's one level of, um, I don't know, honoring them or promoting them. 653 00:37:58,705 --> 00:38:03,015 And then in addition to that, we can say, these are the seven or six or five 654 00:38:03,015 --> 00:38:05,505 ePortfolios, not the grand prize winners. 655 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,110 Um, that we will choose for the audience choice. 656 00:38:08,110 --> 00:38:11,480 And so we'll make a form or we'll make some kind of polling thing. 657 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,730 I think we did a form last year and we'll have the little, the 658 00:38:14,730 --> 00:38:16,190 links to each of the portfolios. 659 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:20,710 We'll send out an email and say to the entire campus, Hey, everybody, 660 00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:22,820 the audience choice has opened up. 661 00:38:22,850 --> 00:38:23,130 Vote. 662 00:38:23,765 --> 00:38:27,155 Vote, vote, vote for your favorite ePortfolio out of the, you 663 00:38:27,155 --> 00:38:28,805 know, five or six of them here. 664 00:38:29,165 --> 00:38:32,945 And the top two winners are going to get a $100 prize. 665 00:38:33,515 --> 00:38:36,755 Um, and so, you know, in these days, you know, obviously more 666 00:38:36,755 --> 00:38:39,005 money better, but hey, a hundred dollars is a hundred dollars, right? 667 00:38:39,005 --> 00:38:39,785 Two 50; two 50. 668 00:38:39,785 --> 00:38:39,845 Yeah. 669 00:38:40,325 --> 00:38:40,685 You know? 670 00:38:40,685 --> 00:38:42,605 Um, and so it, it billed incentives. 671 00:38:43,110 --> 00:38:45,090 And so that's how we acquire them. 672 00:38:45,430 --> 00:38:49,460 And we'll have a combination of an email sent out to find out the audience 673 00:38:49,460 --> 00:38:54,230 choice winner, and we'll have that December 10th event to have people vote. 674 00:38:54,390 --> 00:38:58,650 And by maybe 3:34, we'll have the actual announcement for who 675 00:38:58,670 --> 00:38:59,940 the audience choice winner is. 676 00:39:00,980 --> 00:39:04,140 So it'll be a sort of a double whammy event or triple whammy event. 677 00:39:04,140 --> 00:39:08,160 I like to view it as final exclamation point for end of semester. 678 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,130 You did it students. 679 00:39:09,140 --> 00:39:13,600 We're aid come hang out with us and check out these ePortfolios. 680 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:14,430 What's ePortfolio? 681 00:39:14,430 --> 00:39:17,150 You know, some people might not have heard of the contest or whatever, so we can show 682 00:39:17,150 --> 00:39:21,532 them and we have festivities, balloons, uh, shiny things, whatever, food, pizza, 683 00:39:21,532 --> 00:39:23,509 and then the third thing would be. 684 00:39:23,910 --> 00:39:25,050 Actual winner, right? 685 00:39:25,050 --> 00:39:27,930 We get an actual couple of winners and the voting out of that too. 686 00:39:27,930 --> 00:39:32,540 So a triple whammy kind of event that we, uh, hoping to put on and I think 687 00:39:32,540 --> 00:39:35,510 it'll be better this year than than last year too, so it should be fun. 688 00:39:36,340 --> 00:39:39,730 Here's a preview of what's coming up next In part two of my 689 00:39:39,730 --> 00:39:41,375 conversation with Matthew Gomes. 690 00:39:41,765 --> 00:39:45,515 An ADP Systems Analyst at Bunker Hill Community College. 691 00:39:45,675 --> 00:39:50,045 We had one student that wasn't, um, I guess when they found out 692 00:39:50,045 --> 00:39:52,335 they weren't, they didn't win, they weren't super thrilled. 693 00:39:52,715 --> 00:39:58,105 Um, but on that same token, we had students who were like, Oh, uh, this 694 00:39:58,145 --> 00:40:00,305 makes me motivated to try next year. 695 00:40:00,305 --> 00:40:01,805 Or when are you doing it again? 696 00:40:01,955 --> 00:40:05,065 I was, that was another one that surprised me, where students were like, 697 00:40:05,065 --> 00:40:06,215 when are you going to run it again? 698 00:40:06,335 --> 00:40:11,905 Even faculty were like, Oh, if I knew, oh, and I'm like, sent out a million emails.