ABSTRACT
The Trinity Portfolio Workshop course began as many programs do when a faculty-initiated, grant-funded pilot program with big ambitions, a small budget, and a group of hand-picked, highly motivated students lobbied for approval of a quarter-credit course. The backbone of the Trinity Portfolio Workshop is one of the original requirements of the grant-funded pilot: Students can take the quarter-credit course up to 4 times while they are at Trinity. During athletic and co- and extracurricular activities, students form the kinds of peer-to-peer relationships that will influence the development of their leadership, problem-solving, critical thinking, and interpersonal communication skills. In the rapidly shifting social-media-fueled Internet, the typical audience for a publicly accessible ePortfolio can be difficult for students to define. The principal theme is that when the people give students opportunities to show the work that is important to them in an ePortfolio, they are going to share their experiences with the greater community.
