There’s a very interesting interview of Desire2Learn CEO John Baker and General Counsel Diane Lank in T.H.E. Journal. It’s a particularly good read if you haven’t been keeping up on the details of the trial, but there’s also good stuff in it for people who have been following closely. For me personally, the biggest bit […]
ePortfolios
Tabblo: How an ePortfolio Should Work
I just stumbled across a service called Tabblo, which provides a slick interface for pulling pictures together into an attractive layout. To my mind, it is the perfect example of how ePortfolios should be designed.
D'Arcy Lays it Down on ePortfolios
D’Arcy has a very useful wiki page up outlining all the various dimensions of the huge, amorphous blog sometimes known as “ePortfolios.” This is why there will never be just one class of ePortfolio apps .
If They Build It, Will We Come?
Cole Camplese has a great post about FaceBook: FaceBook is a social networking service that about 85% of the college student population uses. A quick survey of my class this semester showed me that 44 out of 45 students were in the FB. It is amazing how much time and energy students give to their […]
ePort(able)Folios
Last week I had the pleasure of moderating a conference on ePortfolios at SUNY Brockport. Unfortunately, the audio on WebEX apparently died early on, so there is no online archive available. It’s too bad. It was a great conference. Anyway, I’ve said on a number of occasions that ePortfolios are a lot like artificial intelligence […]
e-Portfolios and Personal Content Management–Rip, Mix, Burn
Last week I had the pleasure of spending most of my working week at CIT, which is SUNY’s instructional technology conference and also the largest SUNY-wide conference of the year. It was really exciting to see so many folks from all across the system engaged in thinking about how to “teach different” (to steal a […]
Blog Your Undergraduate Major
The suggestion on blogsperiment that students should be encouraged to create blogs that transcend individual courses fits well with the idea in my last post about approaching the web-enhancing of a university on the departmental level rather than on a course-by-course basis. However, unlike the other idea, this one can be done without a large […]