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June 16, 2006http://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 ...Keywords: eportfolio Posted by John Smith | 0 comment(s) June 12, 2006http://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 ...Keywords: eportfolio Posted by John Smith | 0 comment(s) June 11, 2006http://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 ...Keywords: eportfolio Posted by John Smith | 0 comment(s) 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 ...Keywords: eportfolio Posted by John Smith | 0 comment(s) 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 ...Keywords: eportfolio Posted by John Smith | 0 comment(s) May 17, 2006http://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 ...Keywords: eportfolio Posted by John Smith | 1 comment(s) April 22, 2006http://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 ...Keywords: eportfolio Posted by John Smith | 0 comment(s) April 14, 2006http://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 ... Keywords: eportfolio Posted by John Smith | 0 comment(s) April 13, 2006http://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 ...Keywords: eportfolio Posted by John Smith | 0 comment(s) 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 ...Keywords: eportfolio Posted by John Smith | 0 comment(s) |
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