What’s happening with CSU’s ePortfolio?
Many of you will know that we’ve been ‘experimenting’ with an ePortfolio tool for some time now. We’ve had some difficulties with the CSU Interact ePortfolio tool that have led us to recently explore other ePortfolio tools that might suit our purposes more effectively.
Of course, there are already freely-available tools out there that anyone can use to create their own portfolio. Grab any blog tool and you’re 75% of the way there already! What we’re looking for is a system that provides you with much greater confidentiality and privacy than you might get by pulling together a series of Web2.0 tools – something that we’re hearing is certainly valuable to many within the CSU community.
We’ll provide more details as soon as they become available, but hang in there in the knowledge that work is being done to ‘get this right’ rather than just throw another tool out there at you. In the meantime, the best thing that anyone can do to start off their ePortfolio is to start gathering together the kinds of artefacts that you might use as ‘evidence’ to show off who you are. All you need to do this is a good folder structure on your hard drive or in MyWorkspace within CSU Interact. Oh, and find a space where you can reflect on a regular basis about your work and professional development – check out the transferable skills wiki for some help on how to start up a blog if you don’t already have one.
