Starting Fall 2014, students from Mark Shibley's Fall Environmental Studies Capstone class (ES 494A) will participate in an ePortfolio Explorations pilot. Participation involves using a template to create a Google site, customizing the site, adding content, and giving the SOU ePortfolio Task Force feedback on the process. In return, the Center for Instructional Support will provide individualized training, consultation and support to help you create and maintain your ePortfolio.
You will be able to customize the ePortfolio for multiple uses, including use as an online resume.
What can you do with an ePortfolio:
Examples of ePortfolios
Putting my portfolio together made me feel pride and joy.
The single most important skill to help potential employees get in the door is the ability to self-reflect and to be able to articulate the connections between their experiences and the needs of the job they're applying for. They need to be able to concisely articulate what they did (skill, competency or ability), how they did it (a story), and why they did it (thought process about the choices they made). Creating an ePortfolio is the process of engaging in collection, organization, reflection and connection that leads to a person's ability to speak intelligently and concisely about the what, how and why. In other words, to tell the story about themselves.
Students who wait until their senior seminar or capstone course to try to pull together and organize their work, to show that they have achieved a required learning outcome, often discover that they don't have copies of the work they were going to use to demonstrate that achievement — they don't have that computer any more or it crashed, the files are on a thumb drive they can't find anymore . . .