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Practicalities and Promises of Digital Portfolios is a blog in Apple’s Digital Campus Exchange. There doesn’t seem to be much here yet, but hopefully there will be some good stuff posted. Here is the rss link which may save you a whole lot of registration hassles to get to the blog through the front door.

I’m not sure yet whether digital portfolios are a software, like those offerred at ELGG or OSPI, or a concept. I’m leaning towards the concept idea. In this case the user has some type of open tool, like WordPress or Sakai, which can be used to link to, and access content from a number of other sources. For instance in this blog I have a resume, my regular blog writings, links to photos (and a soon to be integrated flickr - wordpress photo gallery page), other static pages, and my FURL web archive. It could be a little better organized (especially the sidebar) but it works pretty good. And its all open enough that I can easily update it, link in new content sources as they appear, and otherwise not get locked into some more traditional software environment.

One of our newer faculty members is very interested in pursuing some type of digital portfolio for our design students, so I expect we’ll be developing some idea over the next year…