I believe that ePortfolios are a great way to collate and showcase students’ work and creativity. ePortfolios allow for the practicing of digital literacy, network formation, organization, and scholarship. They become a valuable archive of our work as we progress
Novel Idea: Evernote as an Eportfolio Tool
I use Evernote quite often to keep track of ideas, recipes, grocery lists and books/films I want to see. Evernote works pretty seamlessly between my desktop and my mobile which means I can access and edit my notes at anytime. I was interested
Exploring the Adobe e-Portfolio Tool
I have been exploring the Adobe Acrobat X Pro e-portfolio tool. The Adobe Acrobat X Pro e-portfolio is basically a container for a variety of digital objects. One can drag and drop various multimedia files, office documents and text files
Porting a Sakai Wiki to Wikispaces
In 2009 as part of my masters coursework I had to create an e-learning intervention for my online learning design course. As I was working in supporting academics share teaching materials as open educational resources, I thought I
Exploring Wikispaces as an E-portfolio Tool
For our e-portfolio pilot this year we will be exploring the use of Wikispaces as an e-portfolio tool. Wikispaces is a cloud based wiki-hosting service (sometimes called a wiki farm) and is among the largest of wiki hosts, competing with
Examples of E-Portfolios
I have been scanning some examples of e-portfolios that are openly available on the internet. I believe there is a good argument to allow the open access of e-portfolios so that students can showcase their work to potential employers or
Piloting ePortfolios at the University of Cape Town
In 2012 the Centre for Educational Technology (CET) will be assisting in a pilot project of eportfolio use in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The portfolios are to be used