Introduction to e portfolio

Introduction to E-Portfolios
Pathways

What is an E-Portfolio?
A collection of your work that can be used to:
Plan your career
Apply for:
A job
Another post secondary institution that might interest you (i.e.: colleges, certification programs, technical schools)
Documents what you have learned.

Why do you need an E-Portfolio?
Identifies the qualities you can offer an organization. (ex. employer, internship placement, college and other post secondary institutions)
Builds confidence in what you can achieve
Documents what you have accomplished
Helps to identify where you want to go next
It gets peoples attention!

Why do we put our E-Portfolioson-line?
It will not get lost or thrown away by accident
You can easily recreate to tell different stories
It will not clutter up someone’s desk and avoids you from forgetting it somewhere
Available anywhere, anytime
Demonstrates your technology skills

What goes into an E-Portfolio?
2 types of portfolio.
The “working” portfolio.
Holds everything
The “presentation” portfolio.
A subset of the working portfolio arranged to tell a story about you.
Includes best samples of your work that support the purpose of the portfolio.

We will be creating a presentationE-Portfolio
Allows viewer to see what the strong qualities and characteristics you possess

More Personal Characteristics

We will be creating a presentationE-Portfolio (continued)
To acquire a specific job or entrance into a specific school
To apply to college, jobs, certification program and technical schools
To demonstrate what you have learned (i.e. projects, essays, volunteer programs, videos, internship, etc.)

What will you include in your E-Portfolio?
P E A K S
Personal Characteristics
Experience
Accomplishments
Knowledge
Skills
Example of E-Portfolio grammar school
Penn State

Things about your personality that people will find important

Experience
Work experiences, projects you have been involved in

Accomplishments
Acknowledgements, Certificates, Awards, Prizes, Rewards, etc.

Knowledge
What you know
courses taken each year
courses expected for next year
standardized test scores
knowledge acquired outside of school
(work, volunteer activities, etc.)

Skills
What you know how to do and Identified through Bridges assessments

What else can you add?
Career assessment and Do what you Are(Bridges)
Research on career searches (Career Researches)
Research on post-secondary education, military, employment , internships, and self-employment

You will show what you know using artifacts
Some you have
Things you will create in this class
Things you will create between now & graduation
Examples:
Photos
Audio
Videos
Documents
Presentations
Websites
Blogs

How will you do all this?
You will use
and I will show you how to do this!
Home
Experience
Accomplishments
Knowledge
Skills
Additional Information

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