Lesson2: Blog as e-Portfolio

Think
Do you need an e-portfolio?What arrangements do you have in place now to be able to show others (and to yourself), what you know and what you can do?

So far, I had only paper resumes and "mixi" as a tool of arrangement to show my profiles and my opinions. However, through trying to develop my e-portfolio in these days, I found that e-portfolio is convenient in many points than these tools. So now I feel it will be essential for me.


Explore
What main benefits/disadvantages do you see (if you see any) in the design of an e-portfolio compared to a traditional resume?

Using e-portfolio seems to have three convenient points for me compared to resume. First, it enables me to know myself from various aspects in the long process of developing e-portfolio. Second, it can be revised easily, while traditional resumes needs tenseness of nerve not to miswrite. Third, e-portfolio is more creative activity than filling out the resume.
In my opinion, disadvantage is that it is difficult to value the credibility of the information given at e-portfolio.


Explain
Social Computing Key Questions:

1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
Information literacy to assess credibility, skill of organizing a lot of information , and skill of comparing various matters are needed.


2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
The software enables us to share information, communicate, and deepen our own views of world, however, it contains the risk of private information being misused or stolen.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
Huge academic databases can be developed more and more, and users will access just the information what they are looking for.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
Basic skills to communicate with others, computer literacy, and keeping curiousity alive may promote.