[DG: Teaching & Learning] 3rd party portfolio with Sakai

[Hunter, Carole]

Hi Salwa
At CSU, we trialed OSP for about 12 months but are now using PebblePad. We intentially keep it as a separate system (distinguishing the 'student-owned' and the instructor-led' environments), but the webcontent tool allows lecturers to integrate it in different ways within Sakai when used within courses. For example, one of our ed designers here is working on a 'button' that can be inserted into modules etc and which will take them directly to their personal PebblePad space for reflection, recording etc. We've had a few chats with people at AuSakai last year about further integration with Sakai 3 through widgets, but that's still a little way off.

It's going well...we have about 4500 users after just over 12 months, with no marketing at all - just word of mouth. Feedback so far is very positive - being used across all four faculties, but especially in the Faculty of Education, in our grad cert in university learning and teaching, in our careers program, and staff are using it for their performance appraisal, websites/blogs, and fellowship applications...looking forward to seeing how popular the new PebblePad iPhone application is with our students (only made available to them about a week ago).

If you're interested in finding out more, please feel free to send me a private email and I can share some of what we've been doing.

Regards
Carole
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Carole Hunter
Educational designer
Charles Sturt University
Orange campus

02 65 7127
carole.hunter
chunter at csu.edu.au<mailto:chunter at csu.edu.au>

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From: pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Khan, Salwa [sk16 at txstate.edu]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 3:43 AM
To: pedagogy Learning; sakai-ux
Subject: [DG: Teaching & Learning] 3rd party portfolio with Sakai

Hi everyone,

We have a question about the use of portfolio products.  Is anyone using a third-party portfolio in conjunction with Sakai—something other than OSP?
We have been taking a look at commercial portfolio vendors and wondered whether anyone out there is doing the same, or is already using a commercial or other open-source product that is either separate from or somehow integrated with Sakai?  If so, can you tell us how that is working out?

Thanks, Salwa

Salwa Khan
Coordinator, IT Projects
Texas State University
Instructional Technologies Support
sk16 at txstate.edu
512 245-4390