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Whether you’re looking to improve your standing in your program, starting a career or scouting grad schools, presenting yourself in the most illuminating and flattering light can be a challenge. Paper resumes are nice, but so 20 th century. Show your full potential – and web savvy – with an ePortfolio. |
What exactly is an ePortfolio ?
From the e-learning@UBC website:
“e-Portfolios are personalized, online collections of an individual’s work that are chosen by the individual to represent his or her knowledge, skills and interests to diverse audiences. Developed over time, an e-Portfolio shows what the owner has done in a course, degree program, or during their career. An e-Portfolio can include essays, presentations, research papers, images, videos, projects, reports, work samples, or anything else. The individual can also add personal thoughts and written reflections about the pieces of work included in the portfolio, and can invite feedback from others. This can help the individual see his or her personal development over a period of time, as it provides a way to look back and reflect upon what has been accomplished. Highly customizable, e-Portfolios allow the user to assemble subsets of their work to present to instructors, potential employers, and others via login. This way, the owner can provide selective access to individuals or the public.”
So how do you set one up?
There are a few options available. Task-specific software is available for free ( OSP ) or a fee ( iWebfolio ). With a few web design skills and an online host, a web page could be created in html/xml. Some students choose to use wikis or blogs. While free, these can have privacy issues and can make it a little more difficult to integrate all forms of online technology.
- Go to the JISC InfoNet ePortfolios InfoKit page .
- Scan through the material on this page to get a better sense of ePortfolios.
- Click on the arrow icon and listen to Emma Purnell speak about ePortfolios.
- Go to this example of an ePortfolio .
- Look through a few of the sections to get a sense of what is included in a document like this.
- This sample is from an education program at a North Carolina university. Which aspects of the portfolio are specific to this program? How would you adapt your ePortfolio to reflect your program?
- Visit UBC’s Faculty of Education eFolio support area .
- Spend some time looking through this comprehensive guide to creating an ePortfolio on blogging software.
- Think about what you might put into your ePortfolio.
- Visit your blog and
- make a posting listing your ideas and
- reflecting on ePortfolios in general.
- Summarize your ideas into a few sentences and post a comment below.
http://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/blog-as-eportfolio-part-3-mechanics/
http://electronicportfolios.com/portfolios/site2000.html
http://services.exeter.ac.uk/cas/employability/students/reflective.htm
http://www.e-strategy.ubc.ca/news/update0401/040121-e-portfolios.html