There are many applications that are billed as “ePortfolio management” systems – but most are really complicated, or reduce the process of building an ePortfolio to an exercise in paint-by-numbers and fill-in-the-blanks. What is really needed is a flexible, dynamic, highly personalized presentation, crafted by an individual or a small group over time.
The simplest incarnation of this design is in using a hosted blog website as an ePortfolio – taking advantage of the dynamic nature of a blogging application to craft a set of pages containing any content imaginable, in order to represent yourself (or your group) however is needed.
Tyler Sticka recently gave a presentation at WordCamp Portland 2009, where he describes the implementation of a personal portfolio using the WordPress blogging software.
Skip the first 3 and a half minutes, unless you’re a fan of hipster geekiness, but the rest of the presentation is really useful.
There are lots of options available for creating and hosting an ePortfolio:
- UCalgaryBlogs.ca (WordPress, hosted on campus here at UofC)
- WordPress.com (WordPress, hosted in the States, with millions of users
- Google Sites
