Lesson 3: Browser as PLE

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.