Fluid and free form portfolio

[Michael Feldstein]

Ah, I got it now.

There's a real need for what you're describing; I just wouldn't use the 
term "portfolio" for it. Semantics, I think.

- m


Sean Keesler wrote:
> Well, in fact there is a distinction.
>
> While student's repositories are "owned" by them, the portfolio tools 
> DO allow students to publish/share their portfolios for different 
> purposes.
> What I am talking about is that to tools don't lend themselves to 
> collaborative authoring.
> At their best there is a means for someone to give feedback and/or 
> evaluate chunks of the portfolio.
>
> For some schools looking to create a group portfolio consisting of 
> multiple contributors work, this is sort of awkward, given the other 
> options for collaboration.
> Maybe others don't see this as OSP's niche, but it just seems like a 
> natural progression for the OSP free form portfolio tools.
>
> Sean
>
>
> On 12/10/07 8:46 PM, "Michael Feldstein" 
> <michael.feldstein at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>         Part of the issue is that I think that the original uses of
>         portfolios were
>         very focused on one student "owning" a portfolio, which REALLY
>         limits it
>         use. After 3 years of using collaborative tools like wikis and
>         Google Docs,
>         I believe that folks come to an authoring environment
>         expecting to be able
>         to work together, if they want to. This would really change
>         the educational
>         appeal of the tools for folks that are not into the other
>         dimensions of the
>         tools.
>           
>
>     Part of the problem was a failure to make a distinction between
>     the student's repository, which absolutely should be owned by the
>     student, and the portfolio space, which usually needs to be
>     collaborative. I'm attaching a picture from BECTA's ePortfolio
>     analysis here, although I'm not sure whether it will come through
>     the listserv intact:
>
>
>     If you think of the bottom space as a (JCR-compatible) repository
>     where individuals own content that the provision into the
>     environment, the top rectangles as collaborative spaces
>     (regardless of whether those spaces are thought of as
>     "eportfolios"), and the "tool" arrows as collaboration services
>     that get provisioned into the spaces for specific purposes, I
>     think you have a flexible learning and collaboration environment
>     that looks roughly like what Sean and John are talking about. From
>     30,000 feet, it's not so different from what Sakai offers today,
>     but implementation is everything.
>
>     - m
>
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