This document outlines the stages and strategies used to build a community of e-portfolio users at Pratt Institute. It discusses expanding and demystifying the discourse around e-portfolios through argumentative, shifting, and instructional language strategies. It also discusses building a common discourse through foundational, informative, and subversive strategies. Finally, it discusses merging discourse and practice through contextual, collaborative, and empathetic strategies and appropriating the discourse through personal and empowering strategies.

2. Pratt Institute Discursive Strategies to Build a Community of e-Portfolio Users in a Portfolio-Centric Institution Johel Brown Grant, Ph.D. RachidEladlouni, M.A.

3. e-Portfolios at Pratt Origin & Context TheDominant Discourse The Initiative

4. Stages for Discursive Strategies Expanding / Demystifying the Discourse Building a Common Discourse Appropriating the Discourse Merging Discourse and Practice

5. Building aCommon Discourse Language Strategies: Foundational/Generative Informational Subversive/Insertional

6. Expanding and demystifying the Discourse Language Strategies: Argumentative Shifting/Adjusting Instructional

7. Merging Discourseand Practice Language Strategies: Contextual Collaborative Empathetic

8. ApropriatingDiscourse Language Strategies: Personal Empowering Agency

9. Sample e-portfolios

10. Timeline of Discursive Strategies Demos & Training Pilot Implementation Platform selection & Testing Consolidation Institutional Implementation Marketing Personalized Empowering Agency Argumentative Instructional Shifting Contextual Collaborative Empathetic Informative Subversive Foundational building merging appropriating expanding

11. Key thoughts and ideas Voice and power Institutional culture Context of implementation Additional discursive strategies

12. Questions?