Blogs as portfolios

Created by Andrew Middleton (Sheffield Hallam University) on July 15, 2005

I attended the Educause Live! online session last week on The Current State of E-Portfolios in Higher Education. I've found these Live sessions very useful. e-Portfolios and PDP (Personal Development Planning) are not at the centre of my agenda, but my interest is growing with the idea that blogs, for some students, might be all the technology they need in terms of maintaining an effective learning portfolio.

I discussed the idea with some colleagues earlier this week. These were some of the points I presented:

"Blogs as a portfolio tool:

A time-based framework. A flexible container showing evidence of learning, especially reflection upon activities, with comments from peers and/or tutors. It works as an online diary and can be highly visual with a potential to use multimedia (audio blogs, video blogs) as well as simple text. Links can be made to other evidence and information. The construction of the blog is a highly reflective process.
May require technical confidence; there may be accessibility considerations; need to decide about level of access to other people; shows weaknesses and misconceptions."

I'm now interested in finding out why people might think that blogs are not a good idea as an e-Portfolio tool. Any thoughts?

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		Blogs as portfolios Created by Andrew Middleton (Sheffield Hallam University) on July 15, 2005 I attended the Educause Live! online session last week on The Current State of E-Portfolios in Higher Education. I've found these Live sessions very useful. e-Portfolios and PDP (Personal Development Planning) are not at the centre of my agenda, but my interest is growing with the idea that blogs, for some students, might be all the technology they need in terms of maintaining an effective learning portfolio. I discussed the idea with some colleagues earlier this week. These were some of the points I presented: "Blogs as a portfolio tool: A time-based framework. A flexible container showing evidence of learning, especially reflection upon activities, with comments from peers and/or tutors. It works as an online diary and can be highly visual with a potential to use multimedia (audio blogs, video blogs) as well as simple text. Links can be made to other evidence and information. The construction of the blog is a highly reflective process. May require technical confidence; there may be accessibility considerations; need to decide about level of access to other people; shows weaknesses and misconceptions." I'm now interested in finding out why people might think that blogs are not a good idea as an e-Portfolio tool. Any thoughts? Blog (WebLog) \| Ideas Andrew's blog Login or register to post comments 4036 reads
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