stumbled upon the word “interoperability” last friday while attending a workshop with guat kheng at 1 marina boulevard. she related the word to eportfolio interoperability, and this morning i saw these 2 related links, what a coincidence!
1. IMS Global Learning Consortium ePortfolio Specification – was created to make ePortfolios interoperable across different systems and institutions.
2. ePplusfest – organised to present the state of the art of ePortfolio technologies and demonstrate and explore the possibilities for interoperability between ePortfolio platforms and other information systems
Conceptual Framework for E-Portfolio
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.
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*
3 links for future reference
Gathered this 3 links via my feeds:
1. The big portfolio debate
2. On portfolio – what John Dewey might have said
3. Some eportfolio readings
4. UBC e-portfolio blog
… keeping these for (very near) future reference.