Remediation for Collective Reflection Online:

The Augusta Community Portfolio

Darren Cambridge CCCC, Louisville, KY

March 20, 2010

What is a portfolio?

• Collection of artifacts • On which the author has reflected • Synthesizes and communicates what the

author has done, can do, and hope to do in the future

Controlling Metaphor: Museum

Controlling analogy: NMAI

Social software

Goals of the Augusta Portfolio

• Make visible to the world the impressive reading and writing of the people of Augusta

• Spark conversations about Augusta’s heritage, achievements, and future

• Provide an online place to conduct and share such conversations

• Help people in Augusta develop 21st century literacies

Analogous Tensions

Heritage History

Resilience Critical reflection

Fidelity Accessibility

Activity Persistence

Three layers

• Exhibits – Designed by readers and writers in Augusta with the assistance of media experts

• Collective reflections – Results of discussions using the portfolio as a conversation piece

• Individual contributions and reflection – additions to and online conversations about exhibits and collective reflections

http://augustaportfolio.com/

Community Photography

Community Reflection

Civic comm

union

Digital Storytelling

Community Reflection

Civic comm

union

augustaportfolio.com

dcambrid@gmail.comncepr.org/darren