> 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,
Apologies.  I don't have much disagreement with your wording... in my
blog entry I'd just tried to come up with something simpler - but I
probably went too far!?

Having said that, I don't much like your use of "information about the
subject of that eportfolio" because it seems rather weak.  Isn't the
'evidence of learning and/or ability' part important?  It is also
dangerous (in my experience) to leave example lists in definitions,
since some people will take them to be an enumeration of all the
possibilities.

Tweaking yours slightly gives:

"An e-portfolio is a purposeful aggregation of digital items which
'presents' a selected audience with evidence of a person's learning
and/or ability." 

I had the slightly shorter:

"An e-portfolio is a digital collection of creative work, designed to
show evidence of learning and/or ability."

but I think my 'show evidence' is your 'present' and my 'designed' is
your 'purposeful' - so I don't actually think there's much difference
between them?  Your 'selected audience' bit is helpful but is missing
from mine.

Andy
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