Lesson 3: Blog as e-Portfolio (Think, Explore and Explain)

Lesson 3: Blog as e-Portfolio (Think, Explore and Explain)

Think:
Question: Before you began this course, what arrangements did you make (or still do) to be able to show to others (and to yourself), what you know and what you can do?

Obviously, we can use some online tools. A typical example will be an e-mail. Although we can't express our live feelings on the e-mail, we can do some by using the chat system, which is usually accompanied by the email packages. Since GMail offers the services, which I can use the chat system and wrirting emails simultaneously, I often use them .

Explore:
1. Do you need an e-portfolio?
Actually, I don't feel strongly in that I need an e-portfolio. Personally, the most significant qualifications of the online tools will be the size and awareness. Specifically, that means how many people have signed up to that service and how many people are actually using that online tools. Since the e-portfolio is like an interactive tools, we obviously need interactions with other people. In order to have interactions, the large numbers of people should currently using that service.


2. What are the main advantages and disadvantages you see in having an e-portfolio in addition to (or in place of) a traditional resume? Please see some of the examples below.
Since the e-portfolio is like a casual versions of the traditional reusme, the employee can explore in more detail with the applicant's personality, character and prospective qualifications to the work when reviewing the applicant's traditional resume. Therefore, I think it is beneficial to submit an e-portfolio to enrich your traditional resume if the company permits the submission of an e-portfolio. The likely disadvantages will be the leak of your personal information. Since virtually anyone can post your blog, there may be some personal information in the blog.

Explain:
1. What are the main skills needed to use your e-Portfolio?
Since the e-Portfolio is composed of the simple settings, I don't have to make a standard by myself such as creating CSS Style sheet. But I need to have skills of using these systems. Threfore, I should have known those technologies to utilize my e-Portfolio.

2. What are the affordances of your e-Portfolio (what does it make possible, what does it impede)?
The e-Portfolio seemed to me in that they just work as simple as blogs. Therefore, I can utilize almost all the features of the general blog. What I can't do is to advertise something, which many other public blogs have that features.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect you (& other students) to learning resources?
The example of the online learning system at MIT will be an ideal example. The MIT publicized all of their coursework on the internet to make it their learning accessible to anyone.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
Since the technology itself is changing rapidly, the significant things is to learn the fundamentals of the digital age. If I know the fundamentals of the digital age, I may be able to acquire the skills in the developed digital age in efficiently.