Andy/Adam/All
Is it not true to suggest that a portfolio, digital or otherwise, 'presents'
information about a subject? A folio of evidence is presented for a purpose
e.g. evidence of my teaching practice and so is the intention implicit or
explicit? Within my eportfolio I am certainly likely to assert that item X
is presented to fulfil standard Y or even 'here is a link to my favourite
sketch' - isn't that explicit? Of course, even where some intentions are
explicit there may be others that are implicit e.g. look how good I am at
IT!
So, I think I'm inclined to stick with my original offering "An eportfolio
is a purposeful aggregation of digital items - ideas, evidence, reflections,
feedback, data etc - which 'present' a selected audience with information
about the subject of that eportfolio". For me the 'purposeful' indicates
intent - more often than not explicit intent.
Shane
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From: e-portfolio practitioners and developers
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Sent: 09 July 2007 16:39
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Subject: Re: A model relating eportfolios to [portfolio] tools?
Andy Powell wrote:
>> At the risk of being simplistic:
>>
>> ePortfolio = a presentation of digital items that provides evidence
>> of what a person can do.
>>
>> ePortfolio system [not necessarily one piece of software] = a set of
>> tools brought together for the purpose of producing one or more
>> ePortfolios.
>>
>
> Apologies for being thick(!), but what is 'a presentation' in this
> context? Intuitively, for me, that phrasing doesn't work. I don't
> think people would naturally refer to a 'portfolio' as a 'presentation'
> would they?
>
>
This made me cough a little at first but, on reflection, I understood it (to
borrow some of your words Andy) as: presentation = a setting forth with
explicit assertions
And, like you I incline towards a definition of portfolio that excludes the
explicit assertion.
Adam
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