Helen Chen posted a notice about an upcoming webcast by Jude Higdon for ADCE about the nature of ePortfolios in an environment where people are already using blogs and social software. The session will be a quasi-interactive Elluminate production.
Who needs an ePortfolio? All my coursework is on my blog…
EPortfolios have been defined in various ways by vendors, professional organizations, and institutions of higher education.
With emerging technologies such as social software that include the ability to freetag and syndicate across multiple resources and environments, the need for standalone ePortfolio “software” is perhaps called into question. This discussion will raise issues regarding the NetGen student, and how she is already using technology that has natural affordances that allow her to collect, aggregate, and syndicate content into portfolio views that can be useful to herself, other students, faculty, departments, colleges and universities, accreditation agencies, funding bodies, and potential employers.
I’ll hopefully tune in live, because this is exactly the stuff I’ve been thinking about for our ePortfolio project…
Almost forgot – it’s on Friday, March 17th at 11am MST.
Helen Chen posted a notice about an upcoming webcast by Jude Higdon for ADCE about the nature of ePortfolios in an environment where people are already using blogs and social software. The session will be a quasi-interactive Elluminate production.
Who needs an ePortfolio? All my coursework is on my blog…
EPortfolios have been defined in various ways by vendors, professional organizations, and institutions of higher education.
With emerging technologies such as social software that include the ability to freetag and syndicate across multiple resources and environments, the need for standalone ePortfolio “software” is perhaps called into question. This discussion will raise issues regarding the NetGen student, and how she is already using technology that has natural affordances that allow her to collect, aggregate, and syndicate content into portfolio views that can be useful to herself, other students, faculty, departments, colleges and universities, accreditation agencies, funding bodies, and potential employers.
I’ll hopefully tune in live, because this is exactly the stuff I’ve been thinking about for our ePortfolio project…
Almost forgot – it’s on Friday, March 17th at 11am MST.
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I think that’s kinda the point of this session. ePortfolio has been co-opted by buzzword marketeers. But, an ePortfolio should be a refinement of your online stuff – something you can use to reflect on key moments, or use to represent yourself – the best of the best, cream of the crop stuff. I think my ePortfolio would likely be a SuprGlu site combining the “Noteworthy” tag on this blog with “Interesting” photos on Flickr…
D’Arcy-
I’m still not clear what an “E-portfolio” is- other than it sounds right up there with “No student left behind” sort of BS- something some bureaucrat came up with who didn’t get it.
There is no reason not to just have the students load up their stuff on a free hosted blog site like http://www.wordpress.com
where it is accessible to everyone- and managable without any extra software.
The web isn’t going to go away- the idea of “portability” is sort of antiquidated now- don’t you think- bits not atoms- post one place- read everywhere….
Again- I’m clueless to the terminology- but – every one should have their own webspace.