Staff & Faculty Digital Portfolio Pre-Work 

Here is homework for the long haul:

1. Reading: AAEEBL ePortfolio Review (AePR), Reflection & Folio Thinking, winter/spring 2025 issue

   • Skim, pick, and choose what resonates with you

2. Reflective writing: LVDP self-promotion mini-series handouts

   • Goal: develop a personal statement (About Me), sense of personal brand, intended audience, and purpose of portfolio

3. Digital briefcase:

   • Goal: begin collecting digital artifacts in a Google folder, such as a professional headshot, casual images, sample work, creative hobbies, etc.

4. Reference: 

   • Considering your education, experience, and background in student development, I present a challenge:

     • How might you take this tool to connect with your students in the name of community and belonging (PMs, Grads, ADS, etc.)?

     • How might you use this tool for educational purposes?

   • Stanford's digital presence handout (attached)

   • Dominican, developing your story

   • AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolio

   • Slide 3: Whitchurch (2015), concept of the Third Space

   • Whitchurch's concept of the "third space" refers to a hybrid professional area that blends academic and administrative roles in higher education. It challenges traditional binaries like academic vs. professional staff by recognizing roles that involve elements of both — such as those who manage ePortfolios.
     In relation to ePortfolios, the third space often includes educators, instructional designers, and learning technologists who help implement and support ePortfolio systems. These roles require both pedagogical insight and technical expertise, placing them in a space that doesn't fit neatly into existing job categories. They contribute to curriculum design, student engagement, and institutional strategy — thus inhabiting the “third space” Whitchurch describes. (response generated by ChatGPT)

Here is a condensed version I share with students:

• Here are resources for students, faculty, and staff

• Student examples

• My favorite external resource is our friends at Stanford, student examples

If you enjoy a self-paced workflow, you may explore these tasks to get started!

• Technology: Create a basic Google Site (Dominican or personal Gmail), how-to video tutorials

• Inspiration: Review Dominican and Stanford student examples. Identify 2-3 that appeal to you and why.

• Storytelling: 6-word memoir exercise; If you could sum up your life in 6 words, what would they be?

• Perspective: What would your friends and family say about you if you were not in the room?

• Failures and success: Timeline moments of challenge and success

• Audience: Who is your intended audience for your digital portfolio?

• Visuals/media: Considering the audience, gather personal images/media and samples of work in a dedicated digital portfolio folder within Google Drive