About this Blog

Hello - my name is Glenn Johnson and I am the author of this blog.  I am currently senior lecturer and instructional designer in the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute. In this position I previously served as project manager for Penn State's e-Portfolio Initiative, a university-wide initiative that was launched in the Spring of 2002 until July of 2009 - although I still am very much involved in this topic at Penn State.

Blogs are good at capturing shapshots, ideas, implications, events, challenges, best practices - these and other pieces of a puzzle that we are trying to better understand.  This is exactly what I will use this blog for, essentially to put out the pieces I see on this table in hopes that we all might have a better idea of what we are working with. If there is a piece to this puzzle that I have not come across, please let me know!

Administratively as project manager I was housed in the College of Earth and Mineral Science's e-Education Institute but the initiative was funded in part by both Information Technology Services and our Division of Student Affairs. This unique position continues to provide me with insights from three important stakeholders that target evidence of learning; academic programs, cocurricular experience and the technology infrastructure.

We continue to work to identify and collaboratively support faculty, students and staff who have expressed interest in student e-Portfolios for the purposes of helping students use their Penn State Personal Web Space to plan, reflect upon and publish what they have learned at Penn State.