[Portfolio] Portfolios in Sakai OAE

Fri Apr 1 13:29:15 PDT 2011

Hello Bruce and Marc,

I am glad to see continued interest in portfolio functionality as a vital part of Sakai OAE!

May I suggest that anyone interested check out the current discussion of Portfolio Visioning for Sakai OAE? You can track our progress via meeting notes for the larger visioning group and three subgroups: Portfolio Personas (which has completed its work in adding to existing Sakai personas), Portfolio Reports (focusing on a primary need for both Sakai 2.x and OAE), and Portfolio MiniSpecs (documenting portfolio needs for Sakai OAE).

Our portfolio visioning group has also collaborated with the Teaching and Learning Design Lenses group to include portfolio-focused facets as a part of two of the six lenses for Sakai Learning Capabilities: (Learning Activities) and (Teaching and Learning Management).

We in the portfolio visioning group agree that portfolio functionality should be considered to be part of teaching and learning functionality in Sakai rather than continue to be considered separately. In fact, we want to take full advantage of the new content authoring functionality in Sakai OAE, something we believe will be very useful for the creation of portfolios. At the same time, there is additional functionality for assessment and for showcasing achievement that has become essential to portfolio processes. Two forward-looking groups, one at Montreal Mati (led by Jacques Raynauld ) and the other at NYU (represented in our group by Bob Squillace), are currently writing portfolio code and/or designing portfolio interfaces that will be compatible with Sakai OAE. The Portfolio Visioning group is working closely with these two institutions and has been delighted with what has been developed thus far.

Our continued work on portfolio minispecs seeks to fill the gaps between the two existing portfolio projects, current OAE functionality, and our hopes for future portfolio possibilities in Sakai OAE. We will appreciate your continued interest in our portfolio visioning activities. Curating content (good verb!) is something that portfolios definitely do, but in this day and age, portfolio functionality is called upon to do much more!

Janice

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Three Canoes LLC
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 1. portfolios, OAE, and a new verb: curate? (Bruce D'Arcus) 
 2. Re: portfolios, OAE, and a new verb: curate? (Zaldivar, Marc) 
 3. Re: portfolios, OAE,    and a new verb: curate? (Bruce D'Arcus) 

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Subject: [DG: Teaching &amp; Learning] portfolios, OAE, and a new verb: curate?
From: "Bruce D'Arcus" &lt;bdarcus at gmail.com&gt;
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:35:02 -0400
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I don't really have experience working with ePortfolios, but am 
wondering about something that might have bearing on how they fit in 
OAE: 

Could we not say that much of what happens in a portfolio comes down 
to curating content? 

Consider two different use cases: 

1) an art history professor is teaching a course and would like to 
setup a gallery of images for her student. She selects them from her 
content repository, but then wants to add course-specific captions. 

2) student wants to pull in a blog post from a course for their 
portfolio, and needs to add a reflective description of the context of 
that choice. 

My question: don't these two cases have more-or-less the same 
requirements: the ability to curate content with 
context/audience-specific annotation/captioning? 

I haven't seen a notion of curation in existing documentation (say the 
design lenses); just wondering if it's useful. 

I also worry a bit about thinking about portfolios as too distinct 
from the core needs of OAE or both may suffer. 

Bruce 

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Subject: Re: [DG: Teaching &amp; Learning] portfolios, OAE, and a new verb: curate?
From: "Zaldivar, Marc" &lt;mzaldiva at vt.edu&gt;
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:48:10 -0400
To: Bruce D'Arcus &lt;bdarcus at gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org" &lt;pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org&gt;

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Bruce, 

I agree with your idea. In fact, the "ePortfolio as museum" metaphor was one I've heard come up at several conferences in the past year. I don't know if it's worked its way into the design lenses, but I agree that its a concept that should. And, I support your notion that we shouldn't create an artificial split between the needs of OAE and portfolio processes: many of these overlap. To add other use cases on to yours, I have engineering departments who would like students to bring in answers from specific department-wide tests into their portfolios. I have faculty that want to collect artifacts from across many students' portfolios and present them in either another portfolio or another tool within Scholar, e.g. a Discussion Board or Wiki. It's easy enough to do with copy/pasting, but I'd like to see the tools suggesting all of these potential interactions between the content users store on the system, how they want to discuss/annotate it, and with whom they'd like to share it. 

Marc 

On Mar 31, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: 

&gt; I don't really have experience working with ePortfolios, but am 
&gt; wondering about something that might have bearing on how they fit in 
&gt; OAE: 
&gt; 
&gt; Could we not say that much of what happens in a portfolio comes down 
&gt; to curating content? 
&gt; 
&gt; Consider two different use cases: 
&gt; 
&gt; 1) an art history professor is teaching a course and would like to 
&gt; setup a gallery of images for her student. She selects them from her 
&gt; content repository, but then wants to add course-specific captions. 
&gt; 
&gt; 2) student wants to pull in a blog post from a course for their 
&gt; portfolio, and needs to add a reflective description of the context of 
&gt; that choice. 
&gt; 
&gt; My question: don't these two cases have more-or-less the same 
&gt; requirements: the ability to curate content with 
&gt; context/audience-specific annotation/captioning? 
&gt; 
&gt; I haven't seen a notion of curation in existing documentation (say the 
&gt; design lenses); just wondering if it's useful. 
&gt; 
&gt; I also worry a bit about thinking about portfolios as too distinct 
&gt; from the core needs of OAE or both may suffer. 
&gt; 
&gt; Bruce 
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Subject: Re: [DG: Teaching &amp; Learning] portfolios, OAE, and a new verb: curate?
From: "Bruce D'Arcus" &lt;bdarcus at gmail.com&gt;
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:52:27 -0400
To: "Zaldivar, Marc" &lt;mzaldiva at vt.edu&gt;
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Zaldivar, Marc &lt;mzaldiva at vt.edu&gt; wrote: 
&gt; Bruce, 
&gt; 
&gt; I agree with your idea.  In fact, the "ePortfolio as museum" metaphor was one I've heard come up at several conferences in the past year.  I don't know if it's worked its way into the design lenses, but I agree that its a concept that should.  And, I support your notion that we shouldn't create an artificial split between the needs of OAE and portfolio processes: many of these overlap.  To add other use cases on to yours, I have engineering departments who would like students to bring in answers from specific department-wide tests into their portfolios.  I have faculty that want to collect artifacts from across many students' portfolios and present them in either another portfolio or another tool within Scholar, e.g. a Discussion Board or Wiki. 

Yeah, good point. I could imagine wanting to have a course portfolio 
of sorts, that collects example work done across many semesters of a 
course. 

&gt; It's easy enough to do with copy/pasting, but I'd like to see the tools suggesting all of these potential interactions between the content users store on the system, how they want to discuss/annotate it, and with whom they'd like to share it. 

Exactly! 

Bruce 

&gt; Marc 
&gt; 
&gt; On Mar 31, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: 
&gt; 
&gt;&gt; I don't really have experience working with ePortfolios, but am 
&gt;&gt; wondering about something that might have bearing on how they fit in 
&gt;&gt; OAE: 
&gt;&gt; 
&gt;&gt; Could we not say that much of what happens in a portfolio comes down 
&gt;&gt; to curating content? 
&gt;&gt; 
&gt;&gt; Consider two different use cases: 
&gt;&gt; 
&gt;&gt; 1) an art history professor is teaching a course and would like to 
&gt;&gt; setup a gallery of images for her student. She selects them from her 
&gt;&gt; content repository, but then wants to add course-specific captions. 
&gt;&gt; 
&gt;&gt; 2) student wants to pull in a blog post from a course for their 
&gt;&gt; portfolio, and needs to add a reflective description of the context of 
&gt;&gt; that choice. 
&gt;&gt; 
&gt;&gt; My question: don't these two cases have more-or-less the same 
&gt;&gt; requirements: the ability to curate content with 
&gt;&gt; context/audience-specific annotation/captioning? 
&gt;&gt; 
&gt;&gt; I haven't seen a notion of curation in existing documentation (say the 
&gt;&gt; design lenses); just wondering if it's useful. 
&gt;&gt; 
&gt;&gt; I also worry a bit about thinking about portfolios as too distinct 
&gt;&gt; from the core needs of OAE or both may suffer. 
&gt;&gt; 
&gt;&gt; Bruce 
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&gt; Learning Technologies 
&gt; 2210 Torgersen Hall 
&gt; Virginia Tech 
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