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The Eportfolio Tug-of-war By damoclarky
http://damosworld.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/the-eportfolio-tug-of-war/

Mahara Tutorials

There are 4 parts of this onlone tutorial by John Patte (Director of Technology and Information Systems Sylvan Union School District).

http://edutonica.blogspot.com/

By the way, I found useful videos also on:
http://www.teachertube.com/

Moodle'fied Mahara

Mahara has been installed and integrated with Moodle pilot for SSO. It is very simple to set up by following the document at:

https://eduforge.org/docman/view.php/176/3200/Mahoodle.pdf

This concludes the LMS Pilot - ePortfolio integration for both Sakai and Moodle.

And -- ePortfolio

A quick follow up:

With our on-going efforts on the LMS pilots, there are ePortfolio tools available for both Moodle and Sakai. Moodle has an integrable ePortfolio tool called Mahara (http://www.mahara.org). Mahara is a 'very Web 2.0 implementation' for providing ePortfolio and Social Networking features with user-centered focus. Sakai Project comes with OSPortfolio (Open Source Portfolio - http://www.osportfolio.org/) that is very powerful (aka. complicated) with their Learning Matrix and comprehensives Assessment implementation. One of our 'technology' goals is to evaluate the two open source LMS/eP solutions with Blackboard/ePortfolio system ('IF' Bb-NG is proven to be section 508 compliant :-) ). Also, one of our main criteria is to carefully evaluate any ePortfolio solutions with the adoption of IMS ePortfolio standard (http://www.imsglobal.org/ep/) to ensure content interoperability for life-long learning; so, the ePortfolios are not depending on any particular application. All Mahara, OSPortfiolio, and Blackboard eP are or being implemented with IMS eP standard in mind! Another exciting project related to this is our ICS (Instructional Content System). ICS will allow users (students and faculty) to directly publish digital content directly to the LMS/eP system, and also, with the potential, to Facebook and iGoogle for peer reviews or team projects by taking advantage of their Social Network technologies.

ePortfolio - the start of Web20'fy LMS!

Yes, ePortfolio has a hot subject and, for me, it could really be the foundation of Web20'fying of LMS!

I have been "and still" wondering what we can do on eportfolio. There does not seem to a product that provides the exact direction and that always makes things hard :-( . So, it started to trigger me (influenced by Web2.0) to start to look from "information management" point of view and focus on the data! It seems we would have better success taking a constructive approach. So, I started proposing some 'interesting' projects, i.e. LCMS, Social Network, and so on.

To accommedate the ePortfolio guidelines at CSU:

"An e-Portfolio is a digitized collection of artifacts including demonstrations,
resources, and accomplishments that represent an individual, group, or
institution. This collection can be comprised of text based, graphic, multimedia
elements archived on a Web site or on electronic media such as CD-ROM or DVD. It
can also serve as an administrative tool to manage and organize work created
with different applications and tools."

- LCMS - SoCS (Service Oriented Content System)

"A key component of the e-Portfolio systems is to encourage personal reflection
and often to involve the exchange of ideas and feedback."

- Social Network (ELGG)

and, in addition, iPeer for Peer Review/Assessment and DSpace for Institution Repository.