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Carpeta Digital is a generator of electronic portfolios that has been designed and developed on pedagogical and technological principles. These principles are based on the main idea that portfolio space is not only for the scholar or academic uses but has a personal planner use, too This paper presents an approach to the Carpeta Digital's creation process. Also the pedagogical and technological features of the system are explained. The second part of this paper is focused on the use of the tool in a particular context: the University of Barcelona. Results from students' surveys are shown and analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes an invitation to an interior journey through the early stages of educational research. The intention is to share on the basis of a concrete example; in this case, the investigation is about a case study in the Teacher Training Faculty of the University of Barcelona. Within this process, this paper discusses some of the following dilemmatic questions: how to start to organize and to shape the initial ideas, how to target from the complex analysis to a single focus of inquiry, how to move from thematic to convert it in a research problem, how to delineate the research perspective taken, how to build the main questions comprising each dimension of analysis, how to define positions on the real or fictitious dilemma of objectivity and subjectivity in educational research, and finally how to deal with and decide on the selected information gathering techniques. Within this decision making process, also provides tables which graphically and visually solve the main dimensions and questions of the thesis problem and the methodological positions assumed. In conclusion, the article points, out that although on this occasion narrate the initial phase of decision making, the methodological questions of inquiry is not exclusive of this period, but go over throughout the research process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]