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Since we started to explore and use Web 2.0 technologies in our own development/ improvement, we have been intrigued by their potential and, especially, by the possibility of integrating them in education and in particular in the students’ portfolios. In this article we provide a discussion about what Web 2.0 is, the pros and cons of using it, and how Web 2.0 technologies change the online portfolio development.
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- 1. WEB 2.0 TOOLS FOR CREATING E-PORTFOLIOS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Gabriela GROSSECK Ramona BRAN West University of Timisoara
E-Portfolio Process in Vocational Education; Present and Future
Bucharest 3 May
2. Agenda
- Web 2.0 Opportunitiesa nd Limitations
- HowD oes Web 2.0 Apply to E- p ortfolios?
3. e or i-portfolio?
4. What is Web2.0?
- Sharing of photos, videos and other artifacts
5. Web2.0: PROS
- easier and faster access to information
- the integration of a variety of Web 2.0 technologies
- extensive opportunities of information and collaboration
- possibility to control access to resources by authenticating
users
- sharing accumulated experiences
- independence from the platform
- compatibility with the elements of the educational field
- the low level of complexity needed for use
- reliability in continuous usage
- the increase in number of modalities of use
- the possibility to test the existing didactic practices
- the major focus on didactic innovation
6. Web2.0: CONS
- an Internet connection is required
- it hides behind it a sum of technologies and concepts
- it determines variations of interpretation between types of
browsers
- it leads to a low quality of the actual content
- it promotes amateurishness
- it gives everyone the opportunity to complain
- it has monetary quantification (Google)
- it is a kind of second-hand Web
- the speed of programs is incomparably lower than the one of
desktop programs
- it is just electronic junk
- the extremely diversified offer of technologies make the actual
selection process difficult
- time and knowledge invested
7. The classic e-portfolio (1.0) 2006, Helen C. Barett 8. The
new look at e-Portfolios from the framework of Web 2.0 2006, Helen
C. Barett 9. Next step?
- not an easy learning method
- knowledge of the Web 2.0 technologies
- method efficient and promising
10. Thank you Q&A
- Senior lecturer Ph.D. Gabriela Grosseck
- Assistant lecturer Ramona Bran
- West University of Timisoara
- Faculty of Sociology and Psychology
- 4 Bd. V. Parvan, office 029