The world of ePortfolios is a large and daunting one. Services from the Open Source, OS Portfolio to the text based myeport are all calling my name in hopes that I utilize their system. I haven’t tried them all, but I’ve seen ‘em all, and there is an obvious winner, no contest.
The Epsilen Environment is the BEST electronic portfolio system out there.
It’s simpy the best…better than all the rest!
Epsilen works through Javascript. None of that slow flash or shockwave or anything. It’s fast, fun, and affordable. Your documents are presented one after the other in a sort of showcase. They have a specific area for your resume and blogging software too.
The greatest downside was the requirement of an .edu email address to create an account. Suckers! I think I get mine for New Paltz at the end of this month, during orientation. So I’m using someone else’s. It’s no problem, except my URL is hername.cuny.epsilen.com. But that’s just a URL and look at tinyurl. It’s easy.
So, find an @college.edu, and sign up with epsilen if you want an online directorate of your work.
July 6, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Certainly the best. Epsilen is not just an ePortfolio engine, it is very fancy professional networking software with tones of internal tools. Just use the Epsilen course content and begin wondering how Blackboard, WebCt, etc will be able to compite with Epsilen once the Epsilen become a release product. Although Epsilen is still a beta software it is much beter, easier to use and substantially less buggy than the Blackboard. If I was CEO of one of the current educational software company, I would simply fly to Indiana, buy the Epsilen from IUPUI and replace it with my product (you know which one I am talking about, the BB)