Comments on: Announcing Freefolio - a social e-Portfolio

By: John

John — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:45:50 +0000

Hi all,
First of all, i would say: Keep up the fine work you did!! Freefolio is looking great!

In november 2007 i read this line: “But, if you want to install Freefolio yourself, we will be releasing the code in the very near future”. I ask myself when is the time i can install my own Freefolio. I would like to use it on our college.
Will you pease keep me informed?

Cheers
John

By: Using ICT in Further Education » Blog Archive » New ePortfolio on the block

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:13:17 +0000

[...] found reference to this site on Stephen’s blog. Further information can be found from Graham Attwell. Technorati Tags: eportfolio, freefolio, social network Grab a free edublog to your get your own [...]

By: DE Tools of the Trade » Blog Archive » FreeFolio: A New Free E-Portfolio Tool

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:28:56 +0000

[...] http://www.pontydysgu.org/2007/11/announcing-freefolio-a-social-e-portfolio/ [...]

By: Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning » Blog Archive » Yet another social networking application

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:07:13 +0000

[...] designs and development to see what use we can make of it. That is why I am still excited by Freefolio - at least in hacking Wordpress we can react to real needs as we find them, rather than telling [...]

By: The Portfolio Community of Practice | Freefolio?

The Portfolio Community of Practice | Freefolio? — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:02:57 +0000

[...] the Pontydysgu blog to learn more or go straight to the Freefolio demo [...]

By: pastelpixels.com » FreeFolio: A New Free E-Portfolio Tool

pastelpixels.com » FreeFolio: A New Free E-Portfolio Tool — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:10:03 +0000

[...] http://www.pontydysgu.org/2007/11/announcing-freefolio-a-social-e-portfolio/ [...]

By: MySoreHead » Freefolio - a Structured Blogging example

MySoreHead » Freefolio - a Structured Blogging example — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:16:52 +0000

[...] to this they are going to release freefolio as open source so I look forward to seeing how they implement [...]

By: scott

scott — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:26:37 +0000

Hi Graham,

On the “structured posts” bit, you may find it useful to get involved with Leap2.0, which is concerned with this topic: http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/LEAP_2.0

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:18:37 +0000

I’ve used the “Now REading” plugin for WordPress - though as far as i know it doesn’t yet work with ISBN 13 - which makes it difficult to add new books! I also quite like the one that Warwick have for a general review (books/ CD / etc)

Pulling in external stuff would be good - I guess the slideshare plugin is useful for that, if you happen to have slideshared it. I’ve not seen if there’s a similar one for Zoho or Google Presentations .. though perhaps some sort of iframe would let you bring in things from any source, rather than pre-defined sources.

By: Josie Fraser

Josie Fraser — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:58:26 +0000

I keep my blogfolio for life long learning type stuff (I count my speaking, writing and research work as part of my personal development), but usually only to document when where and what. It would be a good trick to pull off some flexibility between the form based blogging and and any supporting artifacts, so users could free blog an activity, or pull in some multimedia or external feeds/extracts.

That said, a core series of robust and well written templates with optional/customisable fields would be great. And I think the use of a series of templates could help students make connections between their observations and understanding of that book/film/etc etc and whatever ‘learning event’ ends up being called.

There is no reason why this kind of approach (a menu of structured post templates) couldn’t work for an Elgg based environment - and there are enough universities working with Elgg now to get this together if they want to take up the idea and run with it in their own direction.