ePortfolio using del.icio.us

Well, that’s really interesting, still browsing away, I found this interesting attempt at creating an ePortfolio system based on tagging (as opposed to folders) using the web 2.0 tool del.icio.us. Another element of the find that particularly interested me, actually, was the realisation that you can create sub-directories in your del.icio.us account.

[5 minutes later...]

Now laughing merrily at my naivety as I realise that, in fact, it wasn’t a sub-directory as such, but a tag… which just goes to prove that tags, in effect, work like sub-directories, just as Dr Barrett surmised. Hmm. Interesting.

Whose stuff?

I found some interesting information today online about an eportfolio plugin for Moodle which is being developed by the OU called MyStuff. It sounds really interesting…

I was hoping to see the actual ePortfolio. It is, apparently, OpenSource, but whenever I try to go to the OU site for the application, I keep being asked to login, so not quite sure what’s going on there. I like Guy’s early iterations/brainstorms of ePortfolio design… they’re good visualisations to get you thinking. I also like his commentary on the use of Web 2.0 apps to enhance the ePortfolio experience… it’s good to see that I’m not the only one thinking along these lines.

Ah, finally, I found the design and development website for the tool (even if I still can’t get access to the tool itself … grrr).

Folios in Education

I will be using this blog to explore the potential of eportfolios in education. I think blogs are potentially useful as personal mini portfolios… in the sense that they can act as a one-stop shop for things that interest you around a particular topic. So, for instance, I’m currently interested in learning more about eportfolios in education, so I hope that setting up this blog will help me to keep all my information together in one place.

Keeping it as a public blog also means that if there are other folks out there who are interested in learning about eportfolios… this blog could act as an additional resource for them as well as for me. It also means that I can share the URL of the blog with my colleagues, so that they can follow up on what I’m doing if they wish to do so.