This is the transcript of a roundtable session that joined LaGuardia College faculty with internationally recognized ePortfolio leaders, Helen Barrett and Darren Cambridge to discuss the issues facing the ePortfolio movement.

An interesting question is raised by a Design Pattern problem, Others First, identified by Yishay Mor in the Pattern Language Network wiki:

Parents who create an online identity for themselves that includes any images of and text about their children inevitably create an online identity for those children. The children have no control over how they are presented or who they are presented to.

I include images of my child in online repositories, some open some private. So this led me to ask whether the problem identified, for it is a problem, was expressed to address a narrow and particular issue or a broad and general issue. Read the rest of this entry »