PLEs - ePortfolio-based approaches
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Helen C. Barrett, Electronic Portfolios as Digital Stories of Deep Learning http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/epstory.html 2004.
'This paper will discuss the concepts of "Electronic Portfolios as Digital Stories of Deep Learning" and "Digital Storytelling as Reflective Portfolio" by linking two dynamic processes to promote deep learning: Portfolio Development and Digital Storytelling. A major challenge today with electronic portfolios is to maintain learner intrinisic (sic) motivation to willingly engage in the portfolio process. The use of multimedia tools is one strategy that involves and engages learners; another technology that is engaging young people today is the web log or "blogs" and "wikis." '
Dave Tosh, A concept diagram for the Personal Learning Landscape, http://elgg.net/dtosh/weblog/398.html 8 April 2005
See this entry in PLEs - 2005 for this blog post.
Dave Tosh, Elgg :: never an e-portfolio - or what an e-portfolio should be? http://elgg.net/dtosh/weblog/616.html 10 May 2005
"For me an e-portfolio (or similar tool) should be about the learner having complete control over their environment and creating a digital identity to facilitate interaction with others. Creation of their own communities and actively participant in the development of their own learning. Provision of too much scaffolding within a system does not leave much for the learner to do other than what amounts to little more than checklist activities, filling in forms and boxes (where is the learning in that?).
"I feel that systems should give learners a basic set of core components - but be flexible enough so when a learner wants to develop they can and in the direction they wish, not as the institutional system dictates. So could it be that a blog/social networking centered tool, such as Elgg, be what the e-portfolio should have been? Or are we really talking about two completely different systems?"
Dave Tosh, PLE's - are they what the ePortfolio promised to be? http://elgg.net/dtosh/weblog/7365.html 10 February 2006
"So, the question is; will Personal Learning Environments (PLE's) turn out to be what the ePortfolio could have been? A learner controlled space where they can keep a record of what they have done, what they are doing and plan where they want to go? All the while making valuable connections, learning for themselves, collaborating with others - creating their own learning space. The social component being crucial."
Steve O'Hear, Elgg - social network software for education, http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/elgg.php 11 August 2006
Very brief description of Elgg, and interview with developers Tosh and Werdmuller.
Helen Barrett, EIFE-L Conference 2006, http://electronicportfolios.org/blog/2006/10/eife-l-conference-2006.html 16 October 2006
"One of the things I emphasized was the need for “every day-ness” or how we can make ePortfolio development a natural process integrated into everyday life supporting Lifelong and Life Wide Learning. I also mentioned Social Learning, or how we can integrate ePortfolio development with what Vygotsky told us about learning as an interactive social activity. I also mentioned that the Architecture of Interaction (Web 2.0) allows a Pedagogy of Interaction (ePortfolio 2.0)."
Barrett's vision is as follows. (click on the image to see it larger, if need be then click on the resultant image to see it full size).
