Portfolios - To E Or Not To E! Leigh recently posted about his sense of isolation regarding some of his views on LMS, PLE and e-Portfolios. I got the feeling he was feeling a bit like the lone voice in the wilderness and everything he writes really makes me think so I thought it would be an ideal time to give him some feedback on the aspect I felt that I could comment on, the concept of e-Portfolios. Well, I think I got more than I anticipated and I think Leigh should feel heartened by the level of debate that followed throughout the comments (11 at last count and that doesn’t include some of the TALO discussion group posts) and I put some of my own embryonic thoughts to the test. A bit of background – I was able to go to the E- Portfolio Professional Learning Conference where the keynote presenter was the renown e-Portfolio expert, Dr.
Helen Barrett. Prior to the conference I had blogged my initial thoughts using Leigh’s original post ePortfolios. I don’t get it! And expand he did: That was really cool. ePortfolios. I don't get it! There's been a steady stream of talk around the idea of ePortfolios. I've been watching, interested in how the name alone is a good way to get people who are opposed to blogging, interested in what amounts to ... blogging! Amazing what a word can do. I know, I hear the chorus "ePortfolios are more than blogging", but I'd like to sing my version of that: "blogging is more than ePortfolios!
" I just can't understand the persistent drive by so many in education to replicate the tools and opportunities that are already freely available on the open network. The Internet (especially the web2 variety) has always been there, offering up a suite of tools for us to use, now, in the past, in the future, always. All we needed to do was spend a little time with it (out in the real world) understanding how it all worked, and come up with innovative uses for it in education. The Internet is my (and millions of other's) ePortfolio! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. Online Portfolio Tools. E-Portfolios for Learning: ePortfolios and Web 2.0.