Christina Mayes: Portfolio support through peer mentors

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Christina Mayes, MSc, is the Assistant Director of Digital Support Services, including the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Lab within the Center for the Dominican Experience at Dominican University of California, U.S.A.

In this episode, Christina shares how the peer mentors at Dominican support students with questions for their portfolio, career readiness, and navigating college life in general.

Resources

• Digital portfolio support at Dominican
• Peer Mentor Program at Dominican
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force
• AAEEBL ePortfolio Retreat 2024
• AAEEBL ePortfolio Review
• Elizalde, R., Mayes, C. (2025). Reflective portfolios as a tool for community and belonging, K-12 and beyond [Presentation]. Peralta Online Equity Conference. (presentation slides)
• Cendon, D., Denk, K., Kuo, K., Mema, L., Nkwadi, S., Nguyen, K., Avila, P., Chen, H. L., Mayes, C., & Mize, M. (2025). Bridging the gap: Insights from student advocates and peer mentors in ePortfolio practice [Presentation]. AAC&U Conference on Learning and Student Success (CLASS), 2025 Forum on Digital Innovation, Puerto Rico.
• Kecia Denk's penguin radio station
• Christina's portfolio

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• Arturo Flores, Jr.: The portfolio is a reflection of yourself
• Matthew E. Mueller: Create and control your own narrative with a portfolio

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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Support services offered through the Digital Portfolio Lab (00:06:05)

3. Why establish peer mentors as support staff? (00:11:50)

4. How do you support peer mentors? (00:14:03)

5. What feedback did you receive? (00:16:00)

6. Are portfolios used in other courses besides 'Navigating college'? (00:21:29)

7. What would you like to be able to do with portfolios? (00:24:40)

8. Q&A: Words to use to describe portfolio work (00:26:45)

9. Q&A: A tip for learning designers and educators (00:29:12)

10. Q&A: A tip for portfolio authors (00:31:28)