Saturday 4 August 2012

Final input on my blogger's report

An electronic portfolio (e-portfolios) is a collection of knowledge and information in the form of an electronic artifact that demonstrates what a person knows and can do (Zhang, 2007). Temple, Allan & Temple (2003) defined e-portfolios as a systematic and purposeful collection of work and achievement. Heinrich, Bhattacharya & Rayudu (2007) emphasized e-portfolio is much more than just a collection of student work. It gains its values from thoughtful selection, continuous self-assessment and reflection, and evaluation of process, outcome and progress of learning. According to Garthwait , Verrill (2003) & Gulbahar, Tinmaz (2006), they addressed the main idea of using an e-portfolio, is to keep students focused on learning rather than on individual projects of products, e-portfolios are part of the learning process, not a result of it. Grant (2009) notes that common functionality seen in e‑portfolio tools includes input of and storing information both from the learner and from others; managing and organising artefacts and information, including tagging and constructing linked narratives; and setting varied permissions to several people or groups for viewing and giving feedback.

One of the issues that is outstanding in my report is the assessment of the e-portfolio assessment assignment. A mouthful?? Indeed! I found a nice rubric for e-portfolio assessment on the following page: drofilm1.edublogs.org/files/2010/01/Rubric-ex-cd-final1.doc.

When I look at my blog, I am happy about a fair amount of items. I like the way the thoughts flow, I like the overall, clean look (perhaps a bit more colour would be nice?) and I think the blog is informative about the processes that went on in my mind when trying to set up and develop the blog. I also like to insertion of the PowerPoint presentation and videos.
In short, if I accept that the value of an e-portfolio can be used to fill several different purposes, the most important is that it should promote leaning for student, then the task has achieved its purpose. I have learned a lot about e-portfolio assessment while working on the blog posts. I have reflected on my learning and added a few skills. My attitude towards e-portfolio assessment has radically changed from scepticism and negative views, to a much more balanced opinion. I now know some of the positive aspects of blogging and e-portfolios, while also being able to attest of its limitations.
However, I am not sure that I have brought in the necessary artifacts. I need more time to reflect on that.

Continuing my report on blogging

Back again, in French we have a saying "la nuit porte conseil" and I suppose that is what happened. This literally means: 'night brings counsel', or 'sleep on it and you will see things clearer the next morning'. So, here I am once again.
Back to the important part of this task: e-portfolios and their importance in assessment.
Blogging is some sort of modern-day version of a reflective journal, which is why I am detailing my thoughts and processes here. Both blogs and e-portfolios are supposed to enhance critical thinking.

The following questions are important when reflecting on e-portfolio assessment:

  • How is e-portfolio assessment defined?
  • What characteristics of e-portfolio assessment are identified?
  • What advantages of e-portfolios assessment over traditional assessment are identified?
  • What technologies are identified as potentially playing a role in e-portfolio assessment?
In the previous blog posts I have already answered part of these questions. But some remain, so what follows below will try and answer further questions.


E-portfolios communicate various kinds of information for the purposes of assessment. For example, e-portfolios can:

  • Identify connections among academic and extra-curricular learning for admission to higher education and vocational opportunities
  • Demonstrate applications of knowledge and critical literacies for course or programmatic assessment
  • Provide evidence of meeting standards for professional certification
  • Display qualifications for employment
  • Showcase job-related accomplishments beyond schooling, for evaluation or promotion
  • Represent lifelong learning for participation in public service
The following remarks seem crucial to e-portfolios in my opinion:

No list of principles and practices can describe such assessment in toto. Neither can any list suggest an ideal path of development or endpoint, because e-portfolio projects are dynamic, in-progress projects that necessarily undergo changes that are influenced by institutional exigencies and available resources.

One of the principles often highlighted with regard to e-portfolio assessment is the fact that an e-portfolio should have an authentic audience. This is what I encountered when looking for the value of authentic audiences in e-portfolio assessment:

Authentic Audiences—Students engage in audience analysis of who they intend to read their e-portfolios, not only to accommodate faculty, but also employers, issuers of credentials, family, friends, and other readers. Students coordinate access to their e-portfolios with faculty, programs, the institution, and other readers.

On this part my work as a blogger has fallen short, mainly due to time constraints. I should have published my blog widely and tried to market it so that I could get an 'authentic audience' to look at it and give comments. That would have improved my blog and therefore, indirectly, also my thoughts on e-portfolio assessment.

Another principle that needs to be looked at is that of life-long learning:

Lifelong Learning—Students are able to adapt their e-portfolios to various purposes/ uses beyond their academic careers, enabling their various readers, in turn, to track their learning longitudinally.

As I noted in one of the previous blog posts, I started a blog some time back but never 'did' anything with it. Perhaps this new one will do the trick and keep me posting me thoughts in this form. When compared to posting on Facebook, for example, which I really enjoy, the advantage of this blog is most certainly the length of comments possible, the depth of thought, the variety of postings (audio, video, links, etc.).

At this point, I would like to insert a couple of links, an interesting bibliography on e-portfolio best practices for example. Let me try and find out how to do so. I can't see how to bring in a link to a textfile. I'll need to find another option. What can I do? I could insert a link to the whole document, even though the bibliography is only found at the end of the document, that isn't a very 'elegant' solution in my opinion. I could also copy the bibliography and insert it below. But that would 'break' my line of thoughts, not very 'elegant' either. Help!!!

Alright, I am giving up. Can't seem to find a better way than to just insert it here. So, here is a useful bibliography:


This bibliography of current sources on e-portfolios includes important research in composition studies and other disciplines:

Al Kahtani, S. “Electronic Portfolios in ESL Writing: An Alternative Approach.” Computer Assisted Language Learning 12.3 (July 1999): 261-68.

Alverno College. “The Diagnostic Digital Portfolio.” Nov. 2003. 27 January 2006. <http://www.ddp.alverno.edu/>.

Ash, Linda. Electronic Student Portfolios. Arlington Heights: Skylight Professional Development, 2000.

Avraamidou, Lucy and Zembal-Saul, C. “Exploring the Influence of Web-based Portfolio Development on learning to Teach Elementary Science. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education 11.3 (2003): 415-442.

Bauer, William and Robert Dunn. “Digital Reflection: The Electronic Portfolio in Music Teacher Education.” Journal of Music Teacher Education 13 (2003): 7-20.

Barkley, Elizabeth. “From Bach to Tupac: Using an Electronic Course Portfolio to Analyze a Curricular Transformation.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001. 117-123.

Barrett, Helen. "electronicportfolios.org.” 26 Jan.2006. 27 Jan. 2006. <http://electronicportfolios.org/>.

                . “White Paper: Researching Electronic Portfolios and Learned Engagement.” The Reflect Initiative. 2005. 28 Dec. 2005. <http://www.taskstream.com/reflect/ whitepaper.pdf >.

                . Electronic Portfolios = Multimedia Development = Portfolio Development: The Electronic Development Process.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.110-116.

                . “Using Technology to Support Alternative Assessment and Electronic Portfolios.” 1996. 27 Jan. 2006. <http://electronicportfolios.org/portfolios.html>.

Batson, Trent. “The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What’s it All About?” Syllabus Magazine. Dec. 2002. 28 Dec. 2005. <http://syllabus.com/print.asp?ID=6984>.

Beck, Robert, Nava Livne, and Sharon Bear. “Teachers’ Self-Assessment of the Effects of Formative and Summative Electronic Portfolios on Professional Development.” European Journal of Teacher Education 28.3 (October 2005): 221-44.

Borden, Victor. “The Role of institutional Research and Data in Institutional Portfolios.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001. 192-202.

Cambridge, Barbara. “Electronic Portfolios as Knowledge Builders.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.1-11.

Cambridge, Barbara, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey, eds. Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.

Campbell, J. “Electronic Portfolios: A Five-Year History.” Computers and Composition 13.2 (1996): 185-94.

Carney, Joanne. “Setting an Agenda for Electronic Portfolio Research: A Framework for Evaluating Portfolio Literature.” Presentation at the American Educational Research Association Conference, San Diego, April 14, 2004. 27 Jan. 2006. <http://it.wce.wwu.edu/carney/Presentations/AERA04/AERAresearchlit.pdf>.

Chalfen, Richard. “Electronic Demonstration Portfolios for Visual Anthropology Majors.” Journal of Educational Media 29:1 (March 2004): 37-48.

Chang, C.-C. “A Study on the Evaluation and Effectiveness Analysis of Web-based Learning Portfolio.” British Journal of Educational Technology 32.4 (2001): 435-58.

Chappell, David, and Schermerhorn, John, Jr. "Using Electronic Student Portfolios in Management Education: A Stakeholder Perspective." Journal of Management Education 23, no. 6 (December 1999): 651-662.

Chen, Helen, David Cannon, Jonathan Gabrio, Larry Leifer, George Toye, and Tori Bailey. “Using Wikis and Weblogs to Support Reflective Learning in an Introductory Engineering Design Course.” Proceeding of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. American Society for Engineering Education, 2005. (2005 ASEE Design in Engineering Education Division Best Paper).

Cohn, Ellen and Bernard Hibbits. “Beyond the Electronic Portfolio: A Lifetime Personal Web Space.” Educause Quarterly 27.4 (2004): <http://www.educause.edu/apps/ eq/eqm04/eqm0441.asp>.

Colby, Richard. “Digital Portfolio Sensibility: An Interview with Kathleen Blake Yancey.” Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2005. 27 Dec. 2005. <http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/yancey/yancey.htm>.

Condon, William, Fiona Glade, Richard Haswell, Lisa Johnson-Shull, Diane Kelly-Riley, Galen Leonhardy, Jennie Nelson, Susan McLeod, and Susan Wyche. “Whither? Some Questions, Some Answers.” Beyond Outcomes: Assessment and Instruction Within a University Writing Program. Ed. Richard Haswell. Westport, CT: Ablex Publishing, 2001. 191-205.

Corwin, Terry. “Electronic Portfolios.” Campus-Wide Publications 20.1 (Jan. 2003): 32-38.

Dagley, Valerie and Bob Berrington. Learning from an Evaluation of an Electronic Portfolio to Support General Practitioners’ Personal Development Pleanning, Appraisal, and Revalidation.” Education for Primary Care 16.5 (Sept. 2005): 567-574.

Dornan, T., C. Carroll, et al. “An Electronic Learning Portfolio for Reflective Continuing Professional Development.” Medical Education 36.8 (2002): 767-769.

Dorn, Dean. “Electronic Department Portfolios: a New Tool for Department Learning and Improvement.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001. 203-208.

Ellertson, Anthony. “Information Appliances and Electronic Portfolios: Rearticulating the Institutional Author.” Kairos 10.1 (2005). 24 Dec. 2005. <http://english.ttu.edu/ kairos/ 10.1/binder.html?http://cissrv3.uwsp.edu/faculty/aellerts/rearticulate/ home.html>. 

eport.consortium.org. “Home.” 27 Jan. 2006. <http://eportconsortium.org/>.

ePort.consortium.org. “Electronic Portfolio White Paper.”  Nov. 2003. 27 Jan. 2006 <http://www.eportconsortium.org/Uploads/whitepaperV1_0.pdf >.

Fischer, K.M. “Down the Yellow-Chip Road: Hypertext Portfolios in Oz.” Computers and Composition 13.2 (1996): 169-83.

Forbes, C. “Cowriting, Overwriting, and Overriding in Portfolio Land Online.” Computers and Composition 13.2 (1996): 195-205.

Gathercoal, Paul, Douglas Love, Beverly Bryde, and Gerry McKean. “On Implementing Web-Based Electronic Portfolios.” Educause Quarterly 2 (2002): 29-37. 27 Dec. 2005. <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0224.pdf>.

Victoria Getis, Catherine Gynn, and Susan E. Metros. “New Partnerships: EngagingUndergraduates in Research through Technology.” Educause Center for Applied Research.” 2006. 28 January 2006 <http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage /666?ID=ERB0601>.

Greenberg, Gary. “Extending the Portfolio Model.” Educause Review (July/Aug 2004): 29-36. 27 Dec. 2005. <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0441.pdf>.

Hamilton, Sharon. “Snakepit in Cyberspace: The IUPUI Institutional Portfolio.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.159-177.

Hamp-Lyons, Liz, and William Condon. Assessing the Portfolio: Principles for Practice, Theory, and Research. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc., 2000.

Howard, R. M. “Memoranda to Myself: Maxims for the Online Portfolio.” Computers and Composition 13.2 (1996): 155-67.

Herner, Leah, Silva Karayan, Gerry McKean, Douglas Love. “Special Education Teacher Preparation and the Electronic Portfolio.” Journal of Special Education Technology 18.1 (2003): 44-49.

Hawisher, Gail E. and Cynthia L. Selfe. “Wedding the Technologies of Writing Portfolios and Computers: The Challenges of Electronic Classrooms.” Eds. Kathleen Blake Yancey and Irwin Weiser. Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 1997. 305-21.

Hult, Christine. “Using On-line Portfolios to Assess English Majors at Utah State University.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.60-70.

Huot, Brian. “Computers and Assessment: Understanding Two Technologies.” Computers and Composition. 13.2 (1996): 231-43.

Irvin, Lennie. “Reflection in the Electronic Writing Classroom.” Computers and Composition Online. 2005. 26 Dec. 2005. <http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/irvin/ Importance.htm>.

Jafari, Ali. The ‘Sticky’ ePortfolio System: Tackling Challenges and Identifying Attributes.” Educause Review (July/Aug. 2004): 38-48. 27 Dec. 2005. <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0442.pdf>.

Jafari, Ali, and Catherine Kaufman. Handbook of Research on ePortfolios. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Inc., 2006.

Johnson, Glenn, and David DiBiase. “Keeping the Horse Before the Cart: Penn State’s E-Portfolio Initiative.” Educause Quarterly 4 (2004): 18-26. 27 Dec. 2005. <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0443.pdf>.

Kahn, Susan. “Linking Learning, Improvement, and Accountability: An Introduction to Electronic Institutional Portfolios.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.135-158.

                . “Recommendations.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001. 217.

Kelly, T. Miles. “Wired for Trouble? Creating a Hypermedia Course Portfolio.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.124-129.

Ketcheson, Kathi. “Portland State University’s Electronic Institutional Portfolio: Strategy, Planning, and Assessment.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.178-191.

                . “Hands and Minds: Collaboration among Faculty and Institutional Researchers in Portland State University's Portfolio Project.” Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum 13.3 (2002): 22-29.

Kimball, Miles. “Database E-Portfolio Systems: A Critical Appraisal.” Computers and Composition. 22.4 (2005): 434-458.

                . The Web Portfolio Guide: Creating Electronic Portfolios for the Web. NY: Longman, 2003.

Knadler, S. “E-Racing Difference in E-Space: Black Female Subjectivity and the Web-Based Portfolio.” Computers and Composition 18.3 (2001): 235-55.

Lorenzo, George, and John Ittelson. “An Overview of E-Portfolios.” Educause Resource                Learning Center. 2005. 26 Dec. 2005. <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ ELI3001.pdf>.

                . “Demonstrating and Assessing Student Learning with E-Portfolios.” Educause Learning Initiative. 2005. 28 Jan. 2006. <http://www.educause.edu/ LibraryDetailPage/ 666?ID=ELI3003>.

Love, Douglas, Gerry McKean, and Paul Gathercoal. “Portfolios to Webfolios and Beyond: Levels of Maturation. Educause Quarterly 2 (2004):24-37. 27 Dec. 2005. <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0423.pdf>.

Lynch, Linda. and Pupung Purnawarman. “Electronic Portfolio Assessments In U.S. Educational and Instructional Technology Programs: Are They Supporting Teacher Education?” TechTrends 48 (2004): 50-6.

Mason, Robin, Chris Pegler, and Martin Weller. “E-Portfolios: An Assessment Tool for Online Courses.” British Journal of Educational Technology 35.6 (Nov. 2004): 717-727.

Mayers, T. “From Page to Screen (And Back): Portfolios, Daedalus, and the ‘Transitional Classroom.’” Computers and Composition 13.2 (1996): 147-54.

McIntire-Strasburg, Janice. “The Flash or the Trash: Web Portfolios and Writing Assessment.” Kairos 6.2 (2001): http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/6.2/coverweb/ assessment/ strasburg/index.htm>.

Mullen, Laurie, William Bauer, and W. Webster Newbold. “Developing a University-Wide Electronic Portfolio System for Teacher Education.” Kairos 6.2 (2001). 28 Dec. 2005. <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/6.2/binder2.html?coverweb/assessment/ mullenbauernewbold/main.htm>.

National Coalition on Electronic Portfolio Research. 2005. 7 Jan. 2005. <http://www.naspa.org/files/eportfolio_description1205.pdf>.

Olds, Barbara M. and Ronald L. Miller. “Portfolio Assessment: Measuring Moving Targets at an Engineering School. NCA Quarterly 71.4 (1997), 462-467.

Open Source Portfolio Initiative. “OSP Roadmap.” 27 Jan. 2006. <http://www.theospi.org/modules/cjaycontent/index.php?id=6>.

Pullman, G. “Electronic Portfolios Revisited: The eFolios Project.” Computers and Composition. 19.2 (Aug. 2002): 151-69.

Purves, A. C. “Electronic Portfolios.” Computers and Composition 13.2 (1996): 135-46.

Reiss, Donna. “Reflective Webfolios in a Humanities Course.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.31-36.

Rice, Richard. Composing the Intranet-Based Electronic Portfolio Using ‘Common’ Tools.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001. 37-43.

                . Teaching and Learning First-Year Composition with Digital Portfolios. Diss. Ball State University, 2002 <http://english.ttu.edu/rice/ dissertation.pdf>.

                . “A Review of The Web Portfolio Guide: Creating Electronic Portfolios for the Web.” Kairos 7.3 (2002): <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.3/reviews/rice/>.

Ryan, T. “A Portrait of Academic Life: Creating an Outline Research Portfolio.” TechTrends 46.4 (2002): 44-48.

Sandars, John. “Commentary: Electronic Portfolios for General Practitioners: The Beginning of an Exciting Future.” Education for Primary Care 16.5 (Sept. 2005): 535-39.

Springfield, Emily. “A Major Redesign of the Kalamazoo Portfolio.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001. 53-59.

                . “Comparing Electronic and Paper Portfolios.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.76-82.

Stier, Marc. “Teaching Great Books on the Web.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.106-109.

Sunal, Cynthia, McCormick, Theresa, and Sunal, Dennis. “Elementary Teacher Candidates' Construction of Criteria for Selecting Social Studies Lesson Plans for Electronic Portfolios.” Journal of Social Studies Research 29.1 (Spring 2005): 7-17.

Syverson, Peg. "Beyond Portfolios: The Learning Record Online." University of Texas at Austin. 7 Jan. 03. 27 Jan. 06. <http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~syverson/olr/>.

Takayoshi, Pamela. “The Shape of Electronic Writing: Evaluating and Assessing Computer-Assisted Writing Processes and Products.” Computers and Composition. 13.2 (1996): 245-57.

Tetreault, M. K. and K. A. Ketcheson. “Creating a Shared Understanding of Institutional Knowledge through an Electronic Institutional Portfolio.” Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum 13.3 (2002): 40-49.

Thomkins, Daniel. “Ambassadors with Portfolios: Electronic Portfolios and the Improvement of Teaching.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.91-105.

                . “Ambassadors with Portfolios: Recommendations.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001. 130-31.

Tosh, David, and Ben Werdmuller. “Creation of a Learning Landscape:Weblogging and Social Networking in the Context of E-Portfolios.” 15 July 2004. 27 Jan. 2006. <http://www.eradc.org/papers/Learning_landscape.pdf.>

Treuer, Paul, and Jill Jenson. “Electronic Portfolios Need Standards to Thrive.” Educause Quarterly 2 (2003): 34-42. 27 Dec. 2005. <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/ pdf/EQM0324.pdfl>.

University of Denver Center for Teaching and Learning. “Portfolio Clearinghouse.” 27 Jan. 2006. <http://ctl.du.edu/portfolioclearinghouse/search_portfolios.cfm>.

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Watson, Steve. “World Wide Web Authoring in the Portfolio-Assessed, (Inter)Networked Composition Course.” Computers and Composition. 10.2 (1996): 219-30.

Wexler, Judie. “The Role of Institutional Portfolios in the Revised WASC Accreditation Process.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001. 209-216.

Whithaus, Carl, and Mary Beth Lakin. “Working (on) Electronic Portfolis: Connections between Work and Study.” Kairos 9.2 (2005)http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/9.2/ binder2.html? coverweb/whithaus/cover.htm

Whithaus, Carl. “A Review of Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 7.1 (Spring 2002): <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.1/binder. html?reviews/whithaus>.

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Wilson, Elizabeth, Vivian Wright, and Joyce Stallworth. “Secondary Preservice Teachers' Development of Electronic Portfolios: An Examination of Perceptions.” Journal of Technology and Teacher Education 11.4  (2003): 515-527.

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Zalatan, Katrina. “Electronic Portfolios in a Management Major Curriculum.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.44-52.

Zembal-Saul, Carle, Leigh Haefner, Lucy Avraamidou, Mary Severs, and Tom Dana. “Web-Based Portfolios: A Vehicle for Examining Prospective Elementary Teachers' Developing Understandings of Teaching Science.” Journal of Science Teacher Education 13.4 (2002): 283-302.

Report on blogging

In order to beat the task deadline, I need to work on my report. As a first-time blogger - well, that is not really true, I did have a stint at blogging some time ago, but went nowhere further than opening a blog - I should have taken more time to work on the blog and to figure out what needs to be done.
I have read a couple of blogs in the past, I like the way some of them look, but I am not yet fully convinced of their educational worth. I suppose I need to read research papers on the use of blogs and e-portfolios in education.
I first attempted to add a video by just copying the url, and then I noticed the button on the editing page, so I was able to add a couple of videos in the correct way.
In my view, e-portfolios have different purposes, amongst which the following can be found:
- communication
- analysis
- problem-solving
- social interaction
- aesthetic engagement.
I understand that an e-portfolio should 'look good', be 'aesthetically pleasing' and this is where people's artistic creativity comes into play.
Alright, this is where today's report stops. I will be back tomorrow to try and complete this task.

Continuing the work on the e-portfolio


Taking the next step in this process feels very difficult. Not sure what to do now? The blog exists, I need to enhance it but I don't really know how to go about it.
Time to look at some fellow bloggers work. A quick google search on e-portfolio assessment should help get me started:
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3003.pdf
http://www.ied.edu.hk/obl/files/electronic_portfolios.pdf
Slideshare also offers important information:
http://www.slideshare.net/Mayke/eportfolio-in-higher-education

Now, I need to enhance the layout of my blog, but time is running out. So, where to go, let me google some videos:

Tuesday 31 July 2012

Starting off an e-portfolio

There I go, the e-portfolio task needs to be done and I feel like I am clueless. Time to start reading and forming my opinion. What is an e-portfolio?
Well, some online research brings these ideas to the front:
An electronic portfolio, also known as an e-portfolio or digital portfolio, is a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a user, usually on the Web. Such electronic evidence may include inputted text, electronic files, images, multimedia, blog entries, and hyperlinks. E-portfolios are both demonstrations of the user's abilities and platforms for self-expression, and, if they are online, they can be maintained dynamically over time. Some e-portfolio applications permit varying degrees of audience access, so the same portfolio might be used for multiple purposes. This is according to Wikipedia.
When looking at e-portfolios for assessment, the following should be noted:
Portfolios can be a form of alternative assessment. The terms alternative assessment, authentic assessment, or performance-based assessment are often used synonymously "to mean variants of performance assessments that require students to generate rather than choose a response" (Herman, Aschbacher, and Winters, 1992, p. 2). The characteristics of this type of assessment are: the student is involved in meaningful performance tasks; there are clear standards and criteria for excellence; there is an emphasis on metacognition and self-evaluation; the student produces quality products and performances; there is a positive interaction between assessor and assessee (Burke, 1999). There are two central features to alternative assessments: "First, all are viewed as alternatives to traditional multiple-choice, standardized achievement tests; second, all refer to direct examination of student performance on significant tasks that are relevant to life outside of school" (Worthen, 1993, p. 445).