Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Goodbye to eportfolios for a fee?

January 13th, 2010
ePortfolio graphic by Richard Cawood

ePortfolio graphic by Richard Cawood

I’ve argued for a while that, whilst I agree with the idea of eportfolios as a way of demonstrating student learning, I have a few concerns about the way that some universities have implemented eportfolios. I have always believed that an eportfolio should ‘belong’ to the student user and should be independant of the university. Ideally it will be a space in the cloud that the student can use across many institutions as they continue their life long learning activities both academic and professional. » Read more: Goodbye to eportfolios for a fee?

A Little Worried About Delicious

July 29th, 2009

I’ve just been reading this post on ReadWriteWeb that suggests there is a deal in the927159536 offing  that will see Yahoo search disappear to be replaced by Bing with Yahoo providing ads against the search results. Now I quite like Bing, I find it very quick, the results are good and I like the interface. It hasn’t dislodged Google for me mainly because Google search is embedded in all of my browsers. Ironic eh?

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