Digital Portfolio
A great way to build your digital reputation is by creating a digital portfolio. There are many free sites that allow you to setup a digital portfolio. You can use your digital portfolio to show off your projects, papers, presentations, and other materials that you create in graduate school.
Resources for Building a Digital Portfolio:
- Do I Need a Digital Teaching Portfolio
- Three easy ways to make academic websites
- 10 Steps to the perfect portfolio website
- Ultimate guide to building a personal website
- 50 of the Best Online Courses and Resources for Learning Web Design
Digital Portfolio tools:
- Google Sites
- Weebly
- Wix
- Adobe Spark
- Wordpress (WordPress Widgets & Menus)
- The Best Website Builders to Create a Clean Online Portfolio
- 6 Steps to Become a Wordpress Professional
- Pinterest (Example: Christopher S. Penn)
- About Me
- Re.Vu
Website Hosting & Domain Name
One way to stand out from the crowd is to have your own domain name (e.g., www.torreytrust.com). This can be cheap (e.g., $10/year) if you just connect your domain name to a site like WordPress or forward your domain to your Google/Wix/Weebly site. It's more expensive to host your own website on the domain.
- Five Best Domain Name Registrars
- Top 10 web hosting site-builders of 2013
- Weebly Domain Name Setup
- WordPress Domain Support
Copyright
Don't post anything on your website that could be stolen from other individuals in your field (e.g., unpublished experiment results or data). Also, make sure not to post anything that you collaborated on without getting permission from the other individual(s) you collaborated with. You own the copyright to your representation of ideas even if you do not get a patent for them; however, you will have to find a way to prove that those ideas are yours if a conflict arises. If you have questions or concerns about copyright or copyright infringement, contact the Office of Research.
Creative Commons
It is considered copyright infringement (aka stealing) to take a photo from an Internet search and put it on your website. If you want to put images, audio, or other media on your website, you will either need to create the media or use media with a Creative Commons license (make sure to give attribution to the media owner). Creative Commons media can be used for a variety of purposes (based on the 6 different licenses). Here are some articles and resources for finding creative commons images:
- What is Creative Commons and Should You Use It?
- Can I Use That: A Guide to Creative Commons
- Free Photos for Education
- Royalty free images, music, and more
- Good Alternatives to Google Image Search
- Using Google Image Search to Find Free Images
- Sources of Free Sound Effects and Music for Multimedia Projects
- More free pictures
- 45 Free Stock Images for eLearning Courses
- PixaBay free photos