Johel Brown Grant, Ph.D.Rachid Eladlouni, M.A.

Pratt Institute

Discursive Strategies to Build a Community of e-Portfolio Users in

a Portfolio-Centric Institution

Origin & Context

The Dominant Discourse

The Initiative

e-Portfolios at Pratt

Expanding / Demystifying the Discourse

Building a Common Discourse

Appropriating the Discourse

MergingDiscourse

and Practice

Stages for Discursive Strategies

Building a Common Discourse

Language Strategies: Foundational/GenerativeInformationalSubversive/Insertional

Language Strategies: Argumentative

Shifting/AdjustingInstructional

Expanding and demystifying the Discourse

Merging Discourse and Practice

Language Strategies: ContextualCollaborativeEmpathetic

Apropriating Discourse

Language Strategies: PersonalEmpoweringAgency

Sample e-portfolios

Timeline of Discursive Strategies

Platform selection& Testing

Pilot Implementation

Demos& Training

Institutional ImplementationMarketing

Consolidation

Personalized

EmpoweringAgency

ArgumentativeInstructional

Shifting

InformativeSubversiveFoundational

ContextualCollaborative

Empathetic

building

merging

appropriating

expanding

Key thoughts and ideas

Voice and powerInstitutional cultureContext of implementationAdditional discursive strategies

Questions?