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ERIC Number: EJ1329848
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Dec
Pages: 11
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: EISSN-2575-694X
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Embracing Collaborative Opportunities between Communication Centers and Departments: Examining an ePortfolio Bootcamp
Fairchild, Jennifer; Carpenter, Russell
Communication Center Journal, v1 n1 p61-71 Dec 2015
Turner and Sheckles (2015) explain that communication centers are centered on campus and impact students' relationships with career and community opportunities (p. xii). This point is apparent in the centers' relationships with departments in addition to the career-development of student communicators. This article situates the communication center at the intersection of experiences developed through an intensive, embedded collaborative effort to enhance the communication-design process and experience for students. The unit activity described in this article challenged students to engage a full communication-design process through a collaborative partnership between the class and the communication center that tasked students to create their online, professional presence through an ePortfolio. The experience incorporated a series of workshops designed to provide students with the background and planning skills that contribute to the design of an effective professional online persona. Guided by the previous research of Carpenter, Apostel, & Hyndman (2012) as they examined the process of embedding workshops for ePortfolio design in communication-intensive courses, this unit activity focuses on enhancing the visual, written, and oral communication skills of students in the Communication, Leadership, and Change course at a regional comprehensive university.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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