Panelist Roster
Bret Eynon
Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning
LaGuardia Community College
Dr. Bret Eynon is Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY) and the executive director of the LaGuardia Center for Teaching & Learning. With CUNY's American Social History Project from 1983-2000, he wrote and helped produce acclaimed texts and award-winning CDs and documentary videos, and for six years led ASHP's national New Media Classroom program. A former chief trainer for the Library of Congress's American Memory Project and currently a national faculty member for the Association of American Colleges & Universities, he recently founded LaGuardia's new, FIPSE-funded initiative, the Making Connections National Resource Center on Inquiry, Reflection, and Integrative Education.
Geoff Leigh
Director of Production
Foliotek
Geoff Leigh has been helping schools implement the use of the ePortfolio in programs and classrooms for over seven years. Throughout that time he has seen a variety of ways that institutions want to approach how they will use the ePortfolio on their campus. Some of these strategies are neatly packaged simple projects aimed at developing students into lifelong learners while other programs are more data driven.
John Zubizarreta
Professor of English
Columbia College
John Zubizarreta is Professor of English and Director of Honors and Faculty Development at Columbia College. The 2010 Carnegie Foundation/C.A.S.E. U.S. Professor of the Year for Baccalaureate Colleges and winner of several other national and international teaching awards, he is the author of The Learning Portfolio: Reflective Practice for Improving Student Learning (Anker, 2004; Jossey-Bass, 2009) and co-author of Inspiring Exemplary Teaching and Learning: Perspectives on Teaching Academically Talented College Students (NCHC, 2008) and The Robert Frost Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2001). John has mentored faculty and academic leaders nationwide and abroad in developing portfolios to enhance and document teaching and administrative performance and to improve student learning. He has led faculty development workshops and has delivered keynote addresses worldwide. He is also an avid telemark skier, a
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former six-time national whitewater canoe champion, a moonstruck husband, and a busy father of two girls.
Trent Baston
Executive Director
Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning
Batson is Executive Director of the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning, the professional association for the ePortfolio community -- www.aaeebl.org. AAEEBL is the professional association for the world ePortfolio community. He has served as a professor of English and a director of academic computing, and has been a national leader in educational technology since 1986. He is also Senior Contributing Editor of Campus Technology's E-Newsletter Web 2.0.
Becki Williams
Science Faculty
Richland College
Rebecca (Becki) Williams is currently Professor of Chemistry at Richland College in the Dallas County Community College District. Williams chaired the district-wide committee to revise the core curriculum and led multiple initiatives to implement the tier-structured, outcome-based core. Research conducted to redesign the core revealed a need for a "Learning to Learn" course for all college -ready first year students. This carefully designed new course, EDUC 1300 Learning Framework, incorporates the use of ePortfolios. At this time, more than 12,000 DCCCD students are using ePortfolios to provide visible evidence of their thinking and learning in EDUC 1300 and other courses.
Williams was selected by the College Board and the National Science Foundation to serve on a twelve-member national commission of college professors and high school teachers to redesign the AP High School chemistry course with an emphasis on evidenced-based learning for enduring understanding. Williams has twice received the Richland College Excellence in Teaching Award.
