Google Apps seems to be a very organized and efficient way to make an eportfoltio. First of all, there is eBlogger, which we are using now in class, which is a good way to prepare for making an eportfolio. Every week we get a topic of interest and we respond in the form of a blog, and since all of our blogs are on eblogger, looking at and responding to other classmate's blogs is relatively easy. While many of us have not attempted this yet, I'm sure that when we begin to it will give us a better idea of what our classmate's are planning to do with their eportfolios, and perhaps even inspire an interesting idea or concept. I think that Google Docs is probably one of the more interesting tools that Google Apps provides us with. It's a place online where you can attach a document, spreadsheet, or slide show presentation, and attach people's email addresses to it so that they can automatically get an email with a link to the site. Then, either party can edit the document and both new and older versions will be saved. The only potential problem I see with this tool is that it might become difficult to keep track of the different versions, in terms of who edited what.

Google video is also interesting, because it allows us to easily put links to videos into our eportfolio. Google notebooks allows us to keep notes or journal entries about anything that we've seen or done on the internet for our own private use. Google reader, which is probably the second most interesting application in Google Apps, allows us to create one place where we put the sites and blogs we've subscribed to and new posts automatically show up for us to read. This is interesting because it makes it much easier and more time efficient to look through blogs then physically trying to find them. At the same time, if we have several blogs and sites we're subscribed to which constantly have new posts, the sheer magnitude of how many new posts pop up on a regular basis may be overwhelming. Also, there is Google Page Creator, which is where you can actually pull things from Google Docs or anywhere else to create your eportfolio presentation.