Information Appliances and Electronic Portfolios: Rearticulating the Institutional Author

Anthony Ellertson

"This article is a multimodal case study presented in portfolio format. It examines the creation of a competency-based electronic portfolio system that values the web sensible digital portfolio model while maintaining the advantage of a web serviced application. Using Donald Norman's theories on technology cycles and information appliances, in conjunction with Flash component technologies, the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) portfolio system seeks to rearticulate institutional electronic portfolio assessment toward individual multimodal composing."

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