I’m trying to get a ePortfolio project rolling in a passive manner by encouraging the instructors of intro level courses to just let their students know about the availability of the tool and to encourage them to add what they will to their collections. What is selected is not for any marks – as it’s past the time to change the syllabus – but that doesn’t mean that the exercise isn’t valuable. The value comes as instructors can then go around and see what their students really feel is important not only in their course, but in other courses as well. Portfolios are about learning and learning doesn’t only happen in Class101.
One of the instructors I suggested this to wrote back and said that it would be a waste of time and that he would not have the time to go through hundreds of these sites. I told him that he didn’t have to, maybe just look at one or two of them. I haven’t heard back, but the comments that he made basically triggered this post… if you are wanting to use ePortfolios, you do so altruistically – it is for the good of everyone else first and as it cultivates fruit elsewhere, your returns are a more reflective and motivated student (… ideally)
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