The LEAP2A specification - for e-portfolio portability and interoperability - means a lot to the developers who have worked on it, but can be a challenge to describe concisely to others who are less familiar with this technology. Recently it was suggested that I write a short article to do just that, and it appeared [...]
Many HEIs have no option for portfolio tools except Blackboard ones. But the most promising is a wiki tool from Learning Objects. We need to think about developing LEAP2 to cover wikis used as portfolios.
Through the RDFa blog I see a new specification, Common Tag, that various service providers have agreed, for a way of associating local text tags to URIs. This could be very helpful for many reasons, but in general, for making your own tags understandable to the outside world, including software working through the Semantic Web.
My book, "Electronic Portfolios: Personal information, personal development and personal values" has recently been published, and is eventually available on Amazon UK etc. (or .fr or .de or .com)
The publishers have it in their catalogue.
I was very surprised by the high list price, which I have had no influence over. I would publish it for [...]
