A Domain of One's Own @ Emory

Several of us teaching Freshman Composition with eportfolio had a meeting yesterday morning with Dr. Heather Julien, a Senior Lecturer at Emory University, who was visiting our campus to learn more about how and where the Auburn Eportfolio Project is encouraging the implementation of eportfolio design into the curricula of our various colleges as well as across the disciplines. While the visit may have been instructive for her, it certainly introduced some insights to me, particularly thinking of the students assembling their texts and other artifacts into their eportfolios as “curators” and, in her own words, preparing them for “digital citizenship for the long range.” Dr. Julien has recently been made Director of Domain of One's Own @ Emory, which works with teachers in Emory’s various departments to create eportfolio showcases for their students’ work, and she has been having her own students create autoethnographies in what I would consider an eportfolio format, which, like our pilot composition eportfolios, incorporates a lot of reflective writing and cultural study. And as one of my students who came by my office today to discuss his next paper also asked me if I couldn’t provide them with examples of eportfolios, I think I might show them some of Dr. Julien’s students’ work in addition to others.

Here, for example are links to Alexandra Balsalobre's autoethnography, Tyler M. Nathan's autoethnography, Jorge Lorenzo's autoethnography, and Jason Yoon's autoethnography.