E-portfolios
Monday October 13th, 2008From Library Instruction Wiki
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Software - Local Install
Open Source
Elgg (http://elgg.net/)
- Also has hosted option
- combines collaboration (wiki), personal publishing (blogs), and eportfolio
Epsilen (http://www.epsilen.com/product.aspx)
- IUPUI
- Seems to be available only to "test bed" participants
Open Portfolio at the University of Virginia (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/teachered/projects/openportfolio/openportfoliodownload.html)
Open Source Portfolio Initiative (http://www.theospi.org/)/Sakai (http://www.sakaiproject.org/)
- Sakai is both a suite of tools for a CLE and a CMS framework upon which other programs can be built. The OSPI is built on Sakai and seems to be the product one would use if the wanted to use Sakai for portfolios, it's kind of confusing.
- demo (http://demo.osportfolio.org/portal/)
- University of Minnesota
- Indiana University
- Pilot programs at lots of other schools (https://www.indiana.edu/~sakaikb/display.cgi?docid=aprd)
- rsmart (http://www.rsmart.com/solution1.php) - service providers who install and support OSPI and Sakai
- OSPI/Sakai White Paper (http://groups.theospi.org:9443/access/content/group/FF727977A011A8C2BC3E9CB5746B6ECA/Whitepapers/osp2-sakai-whitepaper.pdf)
Commercial
Avenet Efolio (http://www.avenetefolio.com/)
- Also has hosted option
- Minnesota State
- U of Colorado - Denver
- Sample (http://sample19.efoliomn.com/)
Concord ePortfolio Manager (http://www.concord-usa.com/epm.htm)
- LaGuardia Community College, New York
eportaro (http://www.eportaro.com/product.html)
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- Deakin University (Australia)
True Outcomes (http://www.trueoutcomes.com/truep.html)
Software - Hosted
Chalk and Wire (http://www.chalkandwire.com/eportfolio/)
College LiveText (http://college.livetext.com/college/portfolios.html)
FolioLive from McGraw Hill (http://www.foliolive.com/)
- Demo (http://www.foliolive.com/html/intro/demo.html)
FolioTek (http://www.foliotek.com/features.aspx)
iWebFolio/Nuventive (http://www.nuventive.com/iwebfolio.htm)
- Plymouth State University
MAPS (http://www.maps-ict.com/index.shtml)
- seems to be meant for elementary schools?
Resources
misc
DePaul Presentation (http://homer.itd.depaul.edu/users/tsmith27/conference/AACTE-2004Slides.ppt)
- Powerpoint from DePaul about their process for choosing ePortfolio software. Somewhat useful, though without any annotation or commentary it can be difficult to know what some of the slides mean.
http://anvil.gsu.edu/eportfolio/
- An e-Portfolio blog, reasonably frequently updated, though last update was in March
http://del.icio.us/tag/eportfolio
- Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking tool and a group is forming around the tag eportfolio.
clearinghouse/portal/consortia
eportfolio consortium (http://eportconsortium.org/)
- Regularly updated, good info. Includes a resources page (http://eportconsortium.org/Content/Root/resources.aspx) with links to articles etc. I went through and looked at all of them, the most promising of them are linked to from this wiki page.
eportfolio clearinghouse (http://ctl.du.edu/portfolioclearinghouse/)
- American Association for Higher Education's e-portfolio clearinghouse. Includes a list of portfolio programs (http://ctl.du.edu/portfolioclearinghouse/search_portfolios.cfm)
[1] (http://www.eradc.org/index.php):ERADC. "This site was set up in 2003 to explore research and development into the electronic portfolio (e-portfolio). It serves as a hub where you can find information about e-portfolios, other e-portfolio initiatives and resources."
eportfolio dialogue day (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/dd/eportfolio02/resources.php)
- Good resources but old - all from 2002
electronicportfolios.org (http://electronicportfolios.org/portfolios.html)
- Dr. Helen Barrett's website. Lots of information, mostly her papers and presentations. Also a blog.
articles/links
Barrett, H

