1. Multi-ePortfolios: Technical Projections of Folio Thinking Darren Cambridge NLII Annual Meeting 1/27/04

2. ePortfolio as … Style of thinking and acting Genre of representation Process and product over time

3. ePortfolios are multiple Multi-media and mode: Uses a range of representational strategies Multi-technology: Created and used within and through a personal ecosystem of tools Multi-relationship: Owned by the author, shared in multiple forms with multiple audiences

4. Reflection and Integration Through Design Design as an element of learning closely linked to reflection and integration (Shulman 2002) Reflection = more than attached text Integration = more than documents in a folder

5. Multiple media and modes of design Annotation –Tk3Author –DIVER Conceptual design –VUE Distributed writing –Blogs, Wikis, …

6. Multi-technology: ePortfolio as factored application Across enterprise systems –CMS / VLE –LCMS / DRM –ERP / EDS –ePortfolio management system Across desktop, peer-to-peer, and client-server systems With unified user experience

7. Multi-technology: linked by standards and services Data interoperability standards –IMS ePortfolio –RDFS Tool interoperability standards –OKI OSIDs –SAKAI Tool Portability Profile Web Services –RSS –SOAP

8. Multi-Relationship: Multi- portfolio Working portfolio - all the material collected or made available for use in portfolios and all the associations made within that collection; the larger archive from which portfolio elements are selected Presentation portfolio - designed for and shared with a particular audience or collection of audiences for a particular rhetorical purpose

9. Multi-Relationship: The technical part Moving working portfolios between institutional technological contexts –OSPI and Blackboard Content System Sharing presentation portfolios with multiple audiences (human and computer) –OSPI and LionShare

10. Multi-relationship: the techno-social part Articulation between multiple institutional academic standards Semantic web technologies –Ontologies and mappings –RDFS: remixing multiple standards

11. Contact Information Darren Cambridge Director of Web Projects, AAHE NLII Fellow, EDUCAUSE (202) 270-5224 dcambridge@educause.edu EPAC http://webcenter.aahe.org/