The document discusses three cultural ideals for ePortfolio practice: authenticity, integrity, and deliberation. Authenticity involves finding one's unique truth through creative self-examination. Integrity requires consistency and coherence of one's narrative over time and across roles. Deliberation means the portfolio expresses to an audience and allows participation in collective decision making. The document argues ePortfolios should help students discover what's important to them about learning, facilitate dialog between individual articulations and organizational understanding, and allow student inputs to influence real decisions through a deliberative process.