Links. Eportfolio. Stanford. The Powerful, Rich efolio experience. Recently I received an e-mail from someone working to justify efolios for preservice teachers at a college.
Here was an excerpt of the letter: "Thank you for writing me back...I did write an introduction to the manual which lists the student benefits of creating an online portfolio. My professor has been trying to convince all instructors of ... [removed to protect privacy] how they can also benefit by having their students create online portfolios. Welcome to eportfolio.eu. National e-Portfolio Symposium - education.au. Information Services - eLearning : Eportfolios. Teaching Generation Z » Blog Archive » E-Portfolio Research Wiki Finalised. Boy, this has been a bit drawn out – mainly through my own procrastination and inferior time management skills.
My report for the 2006 ICT Learning Grants is up on the wiki where I originally started my efforts. By real research standards, you wouldn’t even call what I’ve cobbled together as “research” but it does represent thinking changed and challenged over a period of time examining an idea that many people in education immediately think is good without any further clarification. The report had to be submitted in a proprietary Word document format but I’ve extracted all of the interesting stuff and pasted it (not without formatting issues) into the wiki so anyone interested or referenced can take a look.
I relied a lot of my conversations with other edubloggers to sort through my ideas so if you commented on any of my posts tagged in my E-Portfolios category, then you may well be referenced. A snippet to attract your interest: