Resources

Portfolio: A receptacle or case for keeping loose sheets of paper, prints, drawings, maps, music, or the like; usually in the form of a large book-cover, and sometimes having sheets of paper fixed in it, between which specimens are placed.

Oxford English Dictionary

"The Doctor forward stepp'd to shew
The wealth of his port-folio."

William Combe The tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque, 1812

Background reading on Course Portfolios

The Course Portfolio, William Cerbin, APS Observer, 14(4), 2001.
Course Anatomy, Lee Shulman. In The Course Portfolio, Pat Hutchings (ed.)

Course Portfolio Collections

There are several Course Portfolio collections you can browse. They are pretty diverse, in subject area, intent, and what they contain. For example, see:

Peer Review of Teaching Project, at University of Nebraska, Lincoln
The Carnegie Foundation Gallery of Teaching and Learning Higher Education Portfolio collection
Indiana University's Course Portfolio Initiative

Example Portfolios

Bruce Cooperstein's Learning to Think Mathematically because it's in a cognate area, and describes a "problem solving" approach - something that's often talked about in the itp context.
Dana Fritz's Visual Literacy "benchmark" portfolio, because of its emphasis on examples of student work and assessment
Karen Hammerness, Linda Darling-Hammond, and Lee Shulman's Learning From Cases because it displays a diversity of evidence - quotes, video clips, reflective prose; and a diversity of product - the portfolio itself, an archive of student work, a subsequent academic paper.

Other resources

As mentioned in the first meeting, the practice of supervising students in groups is documented in "Computer Science Project Work: Principles and Pragmatics". Details of the project (and resultant book) are available from the EPCoS website. The second half of the book is also freely available there, and you can find the practice abstracted in the two bundles: 5.2 Loosely co-ordinated groups and 7.3 Co-ordinated Supervision.