The comparison between social networks such as Facebook or the Landing is fairly common and quite easy, but most often e-portfolios are used in a summative fashion as an individual process, and not really focussing on social learning processes.  However, the point of our presentation is to show redundancy's and this recent article from International Journal of E-Portfolios shows that e-portfolios can also be used as PLEs (personal learning environments) with major benefits being social interations.

The Dialogic Potential of ePortfolios: Formative Feedback and Communities of Learning Within a Personal Learning Environment
         Ester Ehiyazaryan-White, University Centre Doncaster

But is this just an example of stretching a tool beyond its designed affordances and is this a good idea??

Better come to our presentation to find out - and we better do a good one :-)

Terry

It's practical, given the education system we have. I wouldn't blame any student who needed and took the money. 

Still, on seeing this, my first thought was towards the article Mark recently recommended by Max Haiven on the pressure to "develop a neoliberal work-of-the-self fundamentally based in social networking: building tenuous and disposable linkages to maximize personal leverage in a world without guarantees." This seems almost like a case-in-point, not only speeding things along as more and more responsibility for funding education is downloaded to the individual, but charging a 4% fee to do so. When students with less access to education are coming from families and communities that can't afford to crowdfund them, the government is strategically de-funding Humanities scholarship, and media attacks on critical research are commonplace... it seems like crowdfunding can only fill so many cracks, and if everyone in your community has already been told your research is useless, obscene, unpatriotic, "politically correct," etc., there might not be a crowd available. 

Students right now might get further organizing and educating our communities for sustainable public funding than harassing our Linked In buddies for spare change. 

Yikes!  I never thought you were the voodoo type.

maybe you need to get out of the house more often:

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/vancouver-free-wifi/id348875856?mt=8

I found my hat in the bottom of my laundry hamper. It smells funny now, but I'm calling it a win anyway. No word on whether this is the result of voodoo. 

We have a simialr problem in our house, but our problem lies with the provider. They do not wish to provide us with reliable internet. DSL is an option 2 kms from our house but we cannot get it. It costs too much money. (they only turned $20 million profit last year)