More PP reflections - Webfolios and sharing

If I can find time, I would quite like to have a go at creating a webfolio; the help movie makes it sound fairly simple.

The whole concept of sharing assets and webfolios for student use seems a good one in theory; I am beginning to think about the paper PDP that our students engage with and make comparisons. I think that the difficulty of switching to an electronic version is that our particular students have to share their PDP with so many other people e.g. staff in school, link tutors (who supervise their placements) etc, often in situations/venues where access to a computer is not readily available. However, it would make it easier as a personal tutor to compile a reference as you would have access to a lot of information in one place.

Additionally, the ability to share assets would potentially link well to subject audits, and the shared responsibility between students and staff in developing students' subject knowledge; this could allow more personalised feedback on learning (although this in turn is likely to be time consuming).

My one concern is the amount of time that it could take for students (and considerably more for some than others) to get to grips with PebblePad; what would the course have to sacrifice in order to allow the time for students to familiarise themselves with PebblePad?

I think that perhaps I need to be more familiar with using it myself before I can truly see all the potential advantages and drawbacks of using this technology.