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The Importance of Creating and Showcasing Your E-Portfolio Online

In today’s digital age, creating an e-portfolio is essential for students, educators, and professionals alike. It serves as a comprehensive repository of your achievements, learning experiences, and skills. Unlike traditional paper portfolios, e-portfolios allow you to incorporate digital media such as images, videos, and audio, offering a richer storytelling medium. By putting your portfolio online, you ensure easy accessibility, the ability to update your work anytime, and the opportunity to be found by potential employers. Learn how to build and publish your e-portfolio effectively to enhance your professional presence.

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The Importance of Creating and Showcasing Your E-Portfolio Online

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  1. Portfolios: why bother? Why e-ify it? Why put it on-line? Points forDiscussion: What will it do for you? How can I build it? How can I publish it (on-line)? Some Examples?

  2. So you want tocreate a portfolio. Why? • Traditional (paper-based) • Electronic • On-line

  3. So you want to create a portfolio. Why? • They provide evidence of learning and accomplishment • They organize your accomplishments in one place • They remind you that you’ve done some meaningful things • They make it easier to demonstrate work progress • They are an imperative when you are in the job market

  4. Why an e-portfolio? What’s the advantage of an electronic portfolio over a traditional version?

  5. What’s the advantage of an electronic portfolio over a traditional version? • e-Portfolios: • Allow you to include digital media- images, video, audio, source code, etc. • Free you from the limitations of traditional paper media • Allow you to tell a richer story • Easy to customize for different audiences; different views for different clients • Sets you ‘somewhat’ apart from others

  6. Why would you want to put your portfolio on-line?

  7. Why would you want to put your portfolio on-line? • accessibility from anywhere (and on any device) • update from anywhere • ability to publish various versions at various addresses • employers can search and find you • your life is just a click away!

  8. More and more institutions are encouraging- or even requiring- students to create electronic portfolios to highlight their academic work and help them reflect on their campus experiences. Many administrators say that e-portfolios will be the next big thing in campus computing.

  9. What will an e-portfolio do for you?

  10. Students Educators Institutions/HR What will an e-portfolio do for you? • Students • repository to store evidence of learning • demonstrate abilities and interests • detail school, community, work experience • help with job searches • Educators • repository to store evidence of teaching and learning • courses, scholarly work • manage professional development, achievements • communicate to students • Institutions/HR • manage human capital, assess workforce skills, facilitate employee training… • data-driven decision making

  11. How might you build an e-portfolio?

  12. How might you build an e-portfolio? • Pick a distribution method- CD-ROM, DVD, file, on-line (how?) • Explore various tools needed to ‘author’ in these mediums • Do you want text, images, audio, video? • Are you prepared for a technical challenge, or want to k.i.s.s. it? • Pick a solution and start building.

  13. How might you put your portfolioon-line?

  14. How might you put your portfolioon-line? First Step (and this is the BIG step) • Most of your effort will be in organizing, digitizing, and EDITING your portfolio content. • Your choice of host can come later.

  15. How might you put your portfolioon-line? • Build a website and finda host • Free or purchase? What’s the catch? • Use your ISP? • Need some design/production skills • Use a social networking platform • Blogs, Facebook, MySpace, etc. • What’s the catch? Good/bad idea? • Use a commercial portfolio management system • Example: myfolio.com • Hosting fee • Use an open source portfolio management system • Example: OSP • Free? Painless?

  16. Example on efolio My ‘PowerPoint’ example ‘PowerPoint’ online My website My Sympatico website Example on OSP Professional example > > > Personal Examples (of on-line portfolios) > > > >

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