Think the Becta group is inclined toward defining a set of services that
support the process of producing an 'eportfolio'. These services could
then be supported by one or more tools. This would include 'repository'
which seems to be what part of this is about?

How about using 'digital representation' to mean 'eportfolio' (think
Shane has said this before but maybe not). This then is inclusive of
non-textual representations.
Is MySpace etc an 'eportfolio'? Part of an 'eportfolio'? If so what is
the 'intent' behind it?

We do have to remember that there are lots of software products used
already - for example by 60% of work-based learners according to a
recent ALP survey - called 'eportfolios' and some of them are very
simple. We need to be able to include these in some way.

Terri Kinnison
 Becta 14-19 Policy Adviser

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Subject: Re: A model relating eportfolios to [portfolio] tools?

Mark Johnson wrote:
> I also think we are moving forwards here.
>
> I wonder if there's still a risk of talking about artefacts though - 
> managed personal collection/presentation or whatever... It might be 
> useful to think of the artefacts in terms of the actions that are 
> performed to produce them 
Indeed. The context and process of production should not be overlooked.
> and the actions that are performed with them.
For me this is now moving into the scope of systems, whether physical 
world processes or software. I'd go a little further away from the stuff

of an ePortfolio and think about the intent of the person, ie that which

directs the action according to the available processes and tools.

Adam