Freefolio – a social e-portfolio
A quick update on developments with Freefolio.
Regular readers may remember that Freefolio is a ’social’ eportfolio being developed by Pontydysgu and our partners, Raycom. Freefolio is based on Wordpress MU and includes a serie sof plug ins for gorup management, structured blogging, aggregation and so on. Why a ’social’ e-Portfolio. Becuase our primary aim is to support learning and we see learning as a social process.
the development of Freefolio is currently beings upported by Kent and Medway Connexions service.
This week we demoed the latest release whcih includes numerous improvements over the previous version. These include amongst others:
- Easier account creation
- Greatly simplified and redesigned backend user area
- Fully customisable dashboard
- Greater user controlled widgets
- Full multi media integration through media centre
- Bringing together of all personal data – profile, settings and CV on one tab
- Provision of many templates for user choice – some of which allow considerable customisation
- Replacement of spam karma by less intrusive spam filter
- Greater code modularization allowing easier future updating and customisation.
- Full integration of structured blogging templates in wordpress ‘write’ section.
We are working on the group functionality and are planning a presentation module plug in.
In the past we have provided access to a demonstration site for those interested in Freefolio. our first site got hacked down by robots registering accounts. We changed the account creation system to block bots, but then encountered probelms with real (well, brainless but human) registering accounts to spam their wares. Weare planning a new demo site with the new release as soon as we have found someone to moderate the site.
In the meantime if you would like to know more just email me.
I am very interested in all forms of ePortfolio (you can read/review my recent research project at http://24.222.53.223 – shortly to have a new URL). I would like to know if freefolio conforms to the IMS Global standard, or is exportable via XML to other standardized eP products? Also – is it competency-based?
Great to hear your news – and particularly to hear of your focus on social aspects of learning. Our college portfolio philosophy strongly supports those directions.
Stephen