WELCOME to my paperless portfolio!!!

 The ePortfolio started life as an unsophisticated object, amounting in effect to the paperless version of portfolios that had been used over decades for person and professional development and assessment. The order of magnitude of change was mainly additive: electronic media publishing facilities allowed the creation of "enriched" multimedia portfolios, while hypertext made it easier to connect ideas during the reflective process. The Internet brought in a multiplicative order of magnitude, with the ability to connect everything with everything, and above all the possibility to make the content accessible to the whole world. It became an online paperless portfolio. Having one's ePortfolio online in turn led to another level of magnitude change, not just additive or multiplicative, but exponential: ePortfolios can now be mined by search engines and one can use many different services available on the World Wide Web to create one's own repository, publishing and social environment.