An e-portfolio with no limits

Posted on April 1st, 2014

The University of Mary Washington (UMW) in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has launched a Web-hosting project where students can use an array of tools to build their own academic identities, with no limits. The project, called A Domain of One’s Own, allows “students, faculty and staff to register their own domain name and associate it with a space on a UMW-managed Web server. In that Web space, users have the opportunity and flexibility to design and create spaces of almost unlimited possibilities. Within the system, they may install LAMP-compatible Web applications, set up subdomains and e-mail addresses, and install databases. In addition, users may choose to ‘map’ their domain (or a subdomain) to other services, such as … UMW Blogs, Google Sites, or Tumblr.” According to Martha Burtis, special projects coordinator in the UMW Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (DTLT), the project grew out of efforts of a campus group researching e-portfolios. “We found that the term e-portfolio means many different things to different people, depending on which needs you want to address. Out of that conversation, we asked what we could do now with the university blogging platform to take it one step further for students.”

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/04/02/an-e-portfolio-with-no-limits.aspx