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A US educational technology journal called Innovate holds web seminars and makes the archives available to subscribers. You can get a free account here. However, in order to get to the seminar archives you will also need to install a VPN on your computer - you can quickly do that from here if you don't already have one. If you are at home when you use the VPN, use the offcampus option. But if you are on campus you need to pick the oncampus option, then, when it asks you to log in, use you usual unikey login with !10 directly after your username - no spaces - followed by your usual password.

If not you're completely exhausted just by reading this far, take heart: this archived seminar is worth it. It is called 'The Power of "E": Using e-Portfolios to Build Online Presentation Skills' and is given by Cara Lane from UWashington in Seattle. It is an excellent overview of some of the benefits of using eportfolios with two groups of students: with junior students to improve their academic writing skills by taking them from the familiar (email and blog writing) to more formal ways to present themselves, and also with professional students to orient them to the presentation skills implicit in their future life.

It's also an excellent example of how a good web seminar can work, I have attended one that wasn't very involving, and I wasn't impressed with the idea then. This one was much better.

There is a seminar series from 5-9 June on eportfolios - details here - but I will be still away that week. There is one on June 6 about eportfolios with a number of speakers (I think it's 9am on June 7 here but don't take my work for that!). I will listen to it when I get back and review it for the team.

There has been a lot of work done in the UK, and some excellent products have been developed. Here's the current JISC report on their usage.

UK eportfolios

2 May, 2007

This document could provide an interesting background for any eportfolios from the UK. It seems that some work has been done by the QAA on formalising how eportfolios and other personal develoment documents of various kinds are used in the UK. I don't think that anything has been done here on this - there's nothing on the AUQA website. I suppose the present DEST research proposal relates to people wanting to set some standards.

Books on portfolios

1 May, 2007

I have just received the books i ordered from Amazon:
The Web portfolio Guide by Kimball
Electornic portfolios by Cambridge et al
Handbook of research on ePortfolios by Jafari and Kaufman
Will peruse and see what they have to offer.

The Authors

About the Blog

for people working on the medical eportfolio project wth USyd eLearning

Categories

Interesting sites

Helen Barrett's Homepage Homepage of one of the gurus of eportfolio development

Resources

The final project report

Lorenzo and Ittelson, 2005c: Demonstrating and Assessing student learning with E-portfolios

Lorenzo and Ittelson, 2005: An Overview of E-Portfolios The first of a series of three articles

Overcoming Obstacles to Authentic ePortfolio Assessment Excellent article about some of the issues of assessment

Link to a draft of a Handbook for ePortfolio Raters Discusses how people rating eportfolios might make their judgments, especially in the qualitative areas.

The original Literature Review The literature review that was completed before the project began

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