Stephen Downes presented a very engaging talk at the recent Eifel ePortfolio conference in Montreal.
His presentation called My Digital Identity is well worth listening to.
Stephen describes it as a “scattered presentation that looks at authentication and identification, resource profiles, and e-portfolios. Mixed in with notions of the self, potentiality, historicity, and dimensionality. With a description of OpenID in
the middle.”
The audio for the presentation is at http://www.downes.ca/files/audio/montreal2008.mp3
It is obvious from the points that Stephen raises that there are some huge issues to be considered.
He talks at length about the metadata that makes up what we are about, and where it is stored.
How do we go about pulling all the metadata about us, personal metadata, resource metadata, and information metadata together? Stephen talks about creating various windows or profiles from our collected metadata. There cannot be a single ultimate storage.
Further to this idea of digital identity presentations by the keynote speakers from Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane are available online. The keynote presentations all relate, in very different ways, to the question of identity and digital footprint.
It is only a short leap from digital footprint/digital identity to e-portfolio.
On June 11 education.au is holding a national e-portfolio symposium in Adelaide
This national e-Portfolio symposium aims to bring together leading thinkers, policy and decision makers interested in e-Portfolio development to discuss key strategic issues and development.
education.au has invited stakeholders from the school and VET sectors and industry to attend the symposium to develop recommendations to assist in the future development and implementation of e-portfolios for students, practitioners and others. Attendance at the Symposium is by invitation and you can contact us if you would like to be placed on the list. Places are limited. Contact De Bullen for more details.
Join the pre-event discussion even if you can’t attend the symposium itself in an edna Group at http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/eportfolio
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