ABSTRACT
Judy’s story: I started using portfolios in Freshman Inquiry, a yearlong first-year course in 1995. This interdisciplinary themed course, Embracing Einstein’s Universe: Language, Culture, and Relativity, was part of the general education program. While I thought the portfolio was a good idea, I became a real convert at the end of the first year. The students over and over again talked about how important the end-of-the-year portfolio was to their understanding of that whole year’s experience. In the final reflection section of the Freshman Inquiry ePortfolio, one student put it like this:
