Abstract:
The purpose of this research is to propose a learning portfolio framework called blogfolio on the basis of blog. A portfolio has been used as an approach to record student learning progress and assess student learning performance in the education system for a long time. A blog is a kind of social computing in which a virtual community may be formed to perform certain activities. In terms of content collection and maintenance style, portfolio and blog have a certain degree of similarity. In this research, some types of portfolio definitions are discussed and the blogfolio is on the basis of Barrett=s description which takes collecting, selecting, reflecting, projecting and respecting as the activities of a portfolio. The blogfolio not only keeps all the functions a traditional portfolio should have, but also incorporates the features and advances of blog services such as publicity, cross link and syndication that make it a more suitable and convenient platform to let students build their portfolio. The proposed framework is described in detail, an experiment was conducted to understand the system usability and a comparison was made to investigate the advantages and disadvantages between different implementations of a portfolio. We conclude that some modifications should be made on typical blog to fit the requirement of a portfolio. In addition, blogfolio is superior to traditional portfolio in easy to use, publicity and collaborative learning but lack of authentication.
Page(s):
858-864
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Information technology Journal, Volume: 6, Issue: 6, Year: 2007