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

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

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

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By: MySoreHead » Freefolio - a Structured Blogging example

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

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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.

By: Graham Attwell

Graham Attwell — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:27:58 +0000

Hi Emma and others.

These were only examples of the different templates we can create – and ones you refer to were set up for specific purposes. The thing is that it is very easy to create these – and with a little work we could build a template editor.

Have a very nice one somewhere which does book reviews – I will ask Ray to add that one.

I am interested in designing a series of templates which could be used to support reflective on learning. As I am sure you have realised the challenge is the pedagogy – not the technology.

By: Blogging IT and EDucation » Blog Archive » Freefolio - a social e-Portfolio

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:11:19 +0000

[...] Graham Attwell has just launched a portfolio based on WordPress. That makes it easy to fill up – and it makes use of the structured blogging plugin to create some specialised posts. I can see that some of the post types – such as “Learning Event” would be very useful, though I could see that “Learning Event” and “Training/ course” might well be confused by students. I’m guessing that “Learning Event” could include, for example, an event that wasn’t meant to be a learning opportunity, but ended up being one (e.g. getting the job of organising a departmental social event), or could have been something like, say, reading a book which was very thought provoking etc. I suspect, though, that students may need help to see those as learning events. I would also be nice, I think, to have the MCE input option on the structured items, but I think that’s a plugin issue, not Graham’s! [...]

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:03:22 +0000

I’ve had a brief look, and it’s looking good – I like the use of structured blogging to help users create posts – while i like the learning event, I’m less sure of the use of the user case – in particular the fact that it asks the gender of the customer.
I’m not entirely sure where that would fit in. I guess it could be an optional field (that doesn’t show up, rather than saying “unknown”), as it might be important for some instances, but I’d have thought that most of the time it’s irrelevant.

By: Podcasting for Learning » Pontydysgu.org - Announcing Freefolio - a social e-Portfolio

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:29:18 +0000

Freefolio ist also draußen und darf nach Herzenslust ausgetestet werden!

Danke in Richtung Pontydusgu für die Arbeit – und alle, die daran beteiligt waren!

By: Graham Attwell

Graham Attwell — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:19:16 +0000

Good question, Jeremy. I am a big fan of ELGG and ELGG started out as a e-Portfolio application. But I think ELGG has evolved into more of a social networking platform – and that is what Ben said (I think) at the ELGG do in Brighton. Although we wanted some social networking functionality, we have oriented this more towards the e-Portfolio type application.

We were also very concerned that the interface would be extremely simple for those with little (or no) experience of using social software and felt that this would be easiest to do in WordPress (especially as we were on an extremely restricted budget!). WordPress dashboard makes it very simple.

I definitely do not see Freefolio as an alternative or competition to ELGG. Depending on the context, needs, objectives etc. – sometimes I would use ELGG, other times Freefolio.

Josie – thansk for the kind words

By: Josie Fraser

Josie Fraser — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:22:06 +0000

Well done guys! Only had time for a short look around so far but it looks really great – easy to see all of the potential custom applications, and the structure is easy to grasp/explain. When I get the time I’ll write up a review.

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益学会 > OLDaily 中文版 » Blog Archive » 2007年11月06日 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:21:04 +0000

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By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:29:34 +0000

Sounds a lot like Elgg — was it too difficult to modify or adapt their open source code for this project?