Elgg http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/ http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/120376.html http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/120376.html Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:58:41 GMT http://electronicportfolios.org/wordpress/index.php?p=117

How do we create mandatory high school portfolios and still keep the qualities that make a portfolio a portfolio (and not something else, like an assessment management system)? How to we create student-centered portfolios within an institutional context? I recently received an inquiry from a student teacher in British Columbia ...]]> http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/56816.html http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/56816.html Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:45:52 GMT http://electronicportfolios.org/wordpress/index.php?p=116

In the May 26 edition of Eliot Masie's Learning TRENDS newsletter, he told a story of a young man who went to work for a Fortune 100 company and on the first day of orientation asked where he could publish his profile. Not satisfied that his profile was only in ...]]> http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/41534.html http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/41534.html Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:43:47 GMT http://electronicportfolios.org/wordpress/index.php?p=107

There is a new blog on Digital Storytelling, started by the SITE conference. I was especially interested in the podcast that Mike Searson produced, which features Joe Lambert from the Center for Digital Storytelling. Joe will be providing the keynote address at the SITE conference next Wednesday, March 22. Joe ...]]> http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/41539.html http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/41539.html Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:43:47 GMT http://electronicportfolios.org/wordpress/index.php?p=105

I have just participated in a conference in Florence, Italy, which had a focus on the future of education, sponsored by Indire, an Italian educational research organization in Florence. It was an old model for a conference where we sat and listened to presenters all morning (the traditional process did ...]]> http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/41544.html http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/41544.html Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:43:47 GMT http://electronicportfolios.org/wordpress/index.php?p=106

I realize that I have been silent for the last two months. It is not that I have not been learning a lot about electronic portfolios. I have just been traveling a lot with the REFLECT Initiative, visiting the sites and writing up site visit reports, which are not appropriate ...]]> http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/15380.html http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/15380.html Wed, 17 May 2006 19:49:04 GMT http://electronicportfolios.org/wordpress/index.php?p=112

I am trying out the new iWeb software, part of Apple's iLife06 suite of tools. I am traveling in Europe, and so am posting a Travel Blog for friends and relatives to keep track of our journey and share a small sample of our digital photos. I made a specific ...]]> http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/12540.html http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/12540.html Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:28:51 GMT http://electronicportfolios.org/wordpress/index.php?p=111

On Wednesday, April 19, I did a live satellite broadcast for the Minnesota Schools & Colleges (MNSCU), entitled "The Electronic Portfolio: a Mirror and a Map." My part was only about 15 minutes, including two digital stories (my Choices story and my granddaughter's second grade autobiography). My interview was actually ...]]> http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/12104.html http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/12104.html Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:01:14 GMT http://electronicportfolios.org/wordpress/index.php?p=110

I am getting caught up from my travels, and wanted to post a couple of interesting weblinks that I came across over the last couple of months:

USA Today article ("What you say online could haunt you") on the perils of posting personal information into social networking spaces, and how it ...]]> http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/12107.html http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/12107.html Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:25:52 GMT http://electronicportfolios.org/wordpress/index.php?p=109

I continue to receive e-mails about electronic portfolios from around the world. From England, an educator inquired about the differences in terminology between the UK and US. He commented: "All sides seem to want something different...with your experience of international standards and ePortfolios do you think the definition of an ...]]> http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/12110.html http://eduspaces.net/jsmith7489/weblog/12110.html Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:06:20 GMT http://electronicportfolios.org/wordpress/index.php?p=108

I've been traveling since I returned from the trip to Italy: from a meeting and the CUE conference in Palm Springs, to school site visits in Arizona, New Jersey, Maryland, and California, to the SITE and FETC conferences, a dissertation defense and a meeting in Orlando, to the American Educational ...]]>