Great piece of news via Search Engine Journal, finally, we can upload photos directly to blogger.com blogs, just like in MSN spaces, no more messy installing of hello!/picasa clients.
If you have a blogger blog, do check out the latest functionality.
ELGG
Elgg is an electronic portfolio, weblog and social networking system, connecting learners and creating communities of learning.
You can either sign up for a trial or download a copy to run it in your own server.
Official Website of Larry Elmore
chanced upon this site in my own google ads bar.
for fantasy lovers out there, you should be familiar with many of the pictures as book covers in the art gallery. link to the website. enjoy 🙂
A Weblog Webliography
A great list of readings for weblogs put together by Charlie Lowe. Marvellous!
Continuing on the Portfolio theme
This posting by Graham Attwell mentioned the growing interest of eportfolio in Europe because of “an increased interest on personal learning” … “and of course it’s partly due to the ongoing pressure for lifelong learning”.
Attwell defines the following activities in developing a portfolio:
* Identifying learning and achievement
* Reflecting on learning and achievement
* Recording learning and achievement
* Validating learning and achievement
* Presenting learning and achievement
and the sentence that i find most interesting follows: “Assessing plays no part in this.” this really makes me ponder, does assessing a portfolio ‘kills’ a portfolio? if so, how are we going to resolve the assessment issue, which is one of the core concern of our teachers? *hmm*