Secondly, the e-Portfolio tool must be capable of continuous transmogrification. I argue that a young teenager, for instance, will change their loyalties towards pop-groups, football teams or film-stars almost weekly and that, therefore, the colour-scheme, graphical images and fonts etc should be capable of reflecting the new self-representation of the owner.

Thirdly, is the issue of being ‘Lifewide’. I understand this to be in relation to every individual’s abilities or disabilities. The e-Portfolio needs to be capable of even the simplest of functions, without difficulty for instance for a young less able Primary school child and yet, the same tool should be equally responsive to the needs of the PhD graduate.

Fourthly, is the issue of Web2.0. I suspect that far too many teachers and technicians cannot face the complexities of introducing Web2.0 into the classroom. Here, within the e-Portfolio, is the perfect place to house all the preferred tools with which the learner is comfortable, as and when they need them.

Above all, to keep this short, my final point is that we should not be looking primarily to the technical specifications but to the needs of teachers and learners. Perhaps if we looked more closely at what I call ‘liberated pedagogy’ we would begin to realise that the e-Portfolio tool is the perfect solution to all our desires to develop collaboration, peer-review, polls, surveys and questionnaires etc.

You can see more of these ideas on my website/blog.

Do you remember our e-portefolio approach for SAPO Campus project?

Within SAPO Campus we’ve an e-Portefolio tool but it only makes sense when connected with the other tools provides by the platform. SAPO Campus provides a large range of Web 2.0 open to the community and all members are able to use it for formal or informal contexts and build a PLE. The SAPO Campus e-Portefolio tool provides an easy way to build public pages with user selected content/reflections available within SAPO Campus or even at external services.

e-Porfolios should be useful for users to collect and organize their information for specific aims but I do not believe that teachers should center the learning activities on that specific tool. Maybe we should add a discussion tool to the e-Portefolios content and make it more useful… and add some fun