{"id":284,"date":"2006-12-06T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2006\/12\/06\/e-portfolio-purpose-successful-implementation\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T14:38:10","slug":"e-portfolio-purpose-successful-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2006\/12\/06\/e-portfolio-purpose-successful-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Portfolio: Purpose, Successful Implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Is the Purpose of an Electronic Portfolio? Is the Answer the Key to Your Successful Implementation?<br \/>\n&#8221; As the director of Spelman\u2019s newly-instituted Electronic Portfolio Project (SpEl.Folio), I\u2019ve come to realize that a central question of our project is, \u201cWhat is an electronic portfolio?\u201d Is it a medium? Is it a genre, or a set of genres? Is it a delivery system? Is it an assessment tool? Is it a means to reflection and learning? Is it a savvy career move? Is it a flashy new container for the work students already are doing? Is it a pain in the butt?<br \/>\nReaders of SmartClassroom have thought about these questions, and probably have well-developed responses to them. But the audience that concerns me most is the students and teachers at Spelman, a historically black liberal-arts college for women. They sometimes seem to view the electronic portfolio as a flashy container and\/or pain in the butt. It\u2019s this audience, and the perceptions they ultimately form, on which the success of Spelman\u2019s project relies. And, as frustrated as I might get when explaining for the hundredth time that an eFolio is not simply in Kathleen Yancey\u2019s memorable phrase \u201cprint uploaded,\u201d I must pay attention to these responses. For, if the users and authors of SpEl.Folio view it merely as a flashy container or pain in the butt (or both), that\u2019s exactly what it will be. &#8221;<br \/>\nComplete article at:<br \/>\n<a title=\"SmartClassroom\" href=\"http:\/\/campustechnology.com\/news_article.asp?id=19724&amp;typeid=155\">SmartClassroom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is the Purpose of an Electronic Portfolio? Is the Answer the Key to Your Successful Implementation? &#8221; As the director of Spelman\u2019s newly-instituted Electronic Portfolio Project (SpEl.Folio), I\u2019ve come to realize that a central question of our project is, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2006\/12\/06\/e-portfolio-purpose-successful-implementation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}