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.
May 1, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Hi Wilma,
I may just as well use this “social networking” channel to draw your attention to the following link: John Pallister is using wikieducator.org to develop a “one-day introductory course for teachers new to the ePortfolio Process” as a part of the MOSEP project (More Self-Esteem with my E-Portfolio).
See:
http://wikieducator.org/MOSEP:_UK_One_Day_Introduction_-_Session_1
http://www.wikieducator.org/MOSEP
http://www.mosep.org/
May 2, 2008 at 7:20 pm
I’m very interested in eportfolios, having been teaching in schools in the 90s when the portfolio assessment movement happened… very interesting to see how that might transfer online. One of the biggest hassles with student portfolios was always where to store the bulky things… eportfolios solve that (well, to some extent… still have to be stored somewhere!) Perhaps you have a different idea of the portfolio, however, as a professional and creative tool in its own right, rather than a mere collection of items. What does the word “portfolio” actually mean. Must look it up!
May 3, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Hi Lucinda
I’m looking at ways ePortfolios can be used in HE, at postgraduate level. In part, I’m thinking in formal terms (from the institutional POV) but also I’m looking at things from a more person-centred POV… (as a curatorship of personal artefacts). The storage question is an interesting one… and there are lots of important and challenging issues around that (accessibility, bandwidth, privacy of data, copyright issues, etc. to name but a few). I think portfolio is based in latin – meaning to carry a page. This gradually progress to carrying a set of things (not just pages…) such as skills, objects, experiences, connections, etc. and, in ministerial terms… as something you have responsibility for (that last element is also interesting in terms of educational portfolios and the notion of ownership).
May 3, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Hi Tim
Thanks for those links. I’ll enjoy looking through them and thinking about them. Interesting use of a wiki by WikiEducator!