The above image was done by @giuliaforsythe during my ‘eportfolio’ presentation at the university of guelph. It was done on an ipad, a la @ninmah (
The answer presented is two fold… One is the new tension (and maybe not so new) between analytics and read/write. Many people were very swayed by folks who suggested that we should be aiming for an authentic experience… a collaborative one. How, then, do we apply any analytics to that? How do we assess it? It’s an important tension, and a constant battle i think.
The other is the addition of that idea of ‘connection‘ to the portfolio. DaVinci’s portfolio is awesome, but it is not connected. The technology wasn’t there.
The idea of curation. Curation has certainly always been a part of collecting things, but with things ‘e’ it is tempting to not organize them as well as you are forced to with paper. Paper enforces a certain organization… a certain curation. The computer does not. It needs much more focus.
Most importantly, we need to focus on it being important. If work isn’t important, it is nothing. Learning to do things in a disconnected, unthoughtful way is not learning. It’s brainwashing.
Hopefully i’ll get a chance to do an audio track for the slideshare… we’ll see. 🙂
Many thanks to @kylemackie, @richardgorrie and company for being such great hosts.
Thanks for sharing this! Caught a tweet earlier with @giuliaforsythe’s image on Flickr. Fingers crossed that the audio track makes it, as we are engaged in a related project here and actively bouncing around lots of ideas and perspectives.