ABSTRACT
A department office at a large public university is often a busy place. A capstone project involves significant reach and scope designed to bring together and demonstrate a student’s learning in a specific major or program. The springboard course, as the first principle states, is designed to be integrative, to pull together the disparate pieces of a student’s educational career during, before, and after college. The WordPress platform is extremely well optimized for search engine discovery, if students set the options to allow it, so that their work, rather than sitting isolated and abandoned, is discoverable widely and by the entire range of learners who might be interested in their topics. As the springboard class and its curriculum have developed over the past few years, the people have noticed some surprises. The ePortfolio-centered curriculum of the Macaulay Springboards is developing, for students, as a productive and powerful alternative to the dusty seclusion of the filing cabinets of the thesis rooms.
