[Yr7-10it] digital portfolio resources

[Dr Paul Chandler]

I'd bumped into elgg a little while ago, and basically I'm in favour of
"something like it" (even though I'd agree it's unstructured) because in
addition to using to 'collected digital artefacts' and blog about them:
- the inherent community structure of elgg
- within elgg, students can set up and manage RSS feeds
- it makes podcasting students' work dead easy
- elgg (apparently) integrates with moodle

There is a BIG e-portfolio community on elgg.net (admittedly mainly UK
based), with educators from primary to tertiary actively discussing
teaching/learning and e-portfolios.

No doubt one could use PowerPoint, Photostory (or even visual basic!)
but something akin to a decent blogging engine (cf wordpress) seems to
have advantages.  Indeed, if wordpress bolted onto moodle the way elgg
does, I'd probably go for that because elgg is, after all, technically
still in pre-release.

I don't know enough about drupal, but I don't know how you'd do
e-portfolios in moodle (unless I'm missing something); certainly the
built-in blogging in moodle is not set up to be easily twisted to this
application (as far as I know).

Does anyone have first-hand knowledge of drupal?

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Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] digital portfolio resources

I had a play with elgg earlier this year with the aim of setting it up
for that purpose (but have since moved schools, so didn't get to see the
students use it). It is quite unstructured, which may be good or bad
depending on your requirements/expectations. Realistically, almost any
multi-user blog software should work - elgg, drupal, and moodle all have
this functionality, plus more, depending on what other features you
might want (moodle is also a complete e-learning system)

Cheers,

Victor

On 10/31/06, Dr Paul Chandler <paul.chandler at yvg.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> Can I take the opportunity to ask what software others are using for 
> digital portfolios?
>
> I have recently become interested in elgg (www.elgg.org and 
> www.elgg.net)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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