"Why should students or teachers get excited about something that they do not appreciate? As long as an e-Portfolio is held up as an electronic CV or as a storage system for assessment of coursework no one is going to get inspired. As long as publications still suggest that an e-Portfolio can be held on a CD or flash drive we are still thinking 'old technologies'."

"This is a brief collection of work I have created and produced. It includes creative and commercial projects. The Video work I create ranges from promos,full length and short documentaries. Recently I have been exploring the use of words as fluid images, using text as the visual."

"Also there are 2 major open source ePortfolio tools - OSP and Mahara and these are to greater or lesser extent integrated with open source Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) - Sakai and Moodle. "

"E-portfolios are becoming increasingly popular in the vocational education and training (VET) sector as a tool to collate and demonstrate evidence of skills and achievements and assist in the RPL (recognition of prior learning) process. However, e-portfolios contain a significant amount of personal information about learners which needs to be managed well. "

"We have set up this wiki to help coordinate our ground and focus our thinking in the areas below. We hope that this resources will be useful for educators, administrators or schools who are looking to digital portfolios. We hope that you share any resources you may have. If you have questions, please add them to the guiding questions page." by #ade2010

Recommended be @kjarrett as a tool to develop ePortfolios. Could be an after school activity... I don't like the Flash. What happens when Flash gets replaced by HTML 5?

"Educators: Build your ePortfolio Website and keep it for life. Have your students build their ePortfolios for a variety of purposes here. Engage them in reflective learning activities. And use our award winning iRubric to build a rich environment for communicating your expectations and assess student learning outcomes and artifacts with ease. "

"Free to individual students and educators."

This portfolio, therefore, documents my 'life-work' particularly in the development of computing in education and, in particular, the inestimable benefits that the e-Portfolio has to offer at this time.

A variety of slideshows.

A recently produced research document makes encouraging reading- even if a lot of the interesting bits are embedded within masses of statistics and tables. However, although this document is about online learning we can extend its conclusions to the additional functionality that an e-Portfolio can provide.

Quite simply, whatever the age, aptitude, ability, accessibility or attitude of the student, there is a set of eFolio templates with a variety of 'skins' for anyone. - I see this as an essential first step to 'ownership'. Without this sense of ownership there can be a classic syndrome of 'Why should I bother? or What's in it for me?'

We'll want to switch to eportfolio assessment, because we'll want to use this new thing.

mjmontagne's Summer 2009 Google Teacher Academy video submission on the topic of "Motivation & Learning."

I really like VoiceThread for an ePortfolio platform, because we can turn a VoiceThread ePortfolio into a collaborative and attractive workspace very easily. What do you like?

This set of web pages will describe and discuss the use of technology to support alternative assessment from a number of perspectives. Originally developed and maintained by Dr. Helen Barrett, School of Education, University of Alaska Anchorage (retired).

I agree. I'm exploring VoiceThread as an ePortfolio platform. It's a very effective collaboration tool.

Brad Woolley wrote:
> I like the idea of a collaborative work space. Sharing and developing learning will continually build upon itself.
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> Tod Baker wrote:
> > Should an ePortfolio be a showcase of work (an afterthought) or a collaborative workspace that cultivates learning?

VoiceThread is definitely worth looking into. Give it a good look. A few days ago on Twitter there was a discussion about wikis. Based on that, I'd encourage you to look at Wet Paint wikis as well. They get good reviews for organization and navigation.

Tod


Brad Woolley wrote:
> Voice Thread - I'm not very familiar with it - as a matter of fact there is little I am familiar with but that is changing. I've been playing around with WikiSpaces and believe it has real potential for ePortfolios - privacy, adaptability, potential for parent/peer/teacher review but won't know until school starts up and I can get it up and running. I do appreciate your input - now I'll need to familiarize myself more with VoiceThread. I'm intrigued.
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> Tod Baker wrote:
> > I agree. I'm exploring VoiceThread as an ePortfolio platform. It's a very effective collaboration tool.
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> > Brad Woolley wrote:
> > > I like the idea of a collaborative work space. Sharing and developing learning will continually build upon itself.
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> > > Tod Baker wrote:
> > > > Should an ePortfolio be a showcase of work (an afterthought) or a collaborative workspace that cultivates learning?

Google Wave was just announced at the Google I/O conference, video here. At minute 27:00 to 31:00 you will see a segment with important implications for the conversation we have been having with Helen Barrett about Showcase vs Workspace ePortfolios. Our original, and her graphic. What seems to be important about Google Wave is the way it is a PLE and by adding new reviewers of some works, a showcase as well. This could address the challenge of making showcases which might have otherwise been an aftertthought to the actual work.

Description: This group focuses on the use of Google Apps to support ePortfolio development in K-12 schools.

Welcome to Learning Forum London and ePortfolio 2009

I am exciting when revisiting Mahara ePortfolio system and its new features: