Digication Portfolio

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Creating Attractive, Meaningful
Digital Portfolios

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Today’s Presenters:
Karen Shively
 Instructor
ENG102
Ebru Erdem
 Course
Coordinator
ENG102
Lexie Vanderveen
Writing Fellow ENG102
Sean Tingle
Instructor
ENG105

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Today:
• Reflection
• Evidence
• Design
• Creativity
• Examples
• Live Tutorial
• Questions

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Part 1: Critical Reflections &
Examples in ePortfolios

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Digital Portfolio

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Reflection
• thinking about what you have learned from an
experience
• illustrating your understanding
• expressing how you might use this learning in
other areas of your life

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Digital Portfolio
Critically reflect what you have learned
throughout the course and provide evidence to
support your reflections’ claims.
• collect and archive your work
• document your evolution
• reflect on what you have learned

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How did you achieve each of the learning
outcomes (WPA Outcomes)?
• Rhetorical Knowledge
• Critical Thinking, Reading, and Composing
• Processes
• Knowledge of Conventions

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How did you draw on the eight Habits of Mind?
• Curiosity
• Openness
• Engagement
• Creativity
• Persistence
• Responsibility
• Flexibility
• Metacognition

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Digital Portfolio

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The evidence is crucial to persuade your reader
that you learned what you claimed you did.

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Evidence from work done in this class
• excerpts from chapters in the eBook
• excerpts from drafts of projects
• examples from discussion board posts
• feedback from instructor, writing fellows, and
peers

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Digital Portfolio
Evidence from outside of this class
• Written or multimodal work from other
classes
• Multimedia from a professional situation
(emails, PowerPoint presentations, reports)
• Written communication to or from family
members (on social media sites, texts,
creative writing, blog)

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Examples from student portfolios
• Creation of brochure for yoga studio
• Discussion between family members
• Participation in group related to research
topic
• Creation of a musician website

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Digital Portfolio

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Part 2: Effective Design & Layout
of ePortfolios

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Design & Layout
• What is your favorite website?
• Blog?
• Magazine?
• Newspaper?
• Why do you like it?
• What does it do well?
• What would you improve?

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What does this blog do well? Not well?

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What does this blog do well? Not well?

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What does this blog do well? Not well?

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Design & Layout
• We have a standard template available for
when students first create their portfolios, but
we highly recommend that students put their
own unique touches onto the overall design
and layout.
• We want to encourage you to try and
experiment with new, creative ideas.
• Don’t be afraid to try new things! 

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Design & Layout
• Be consumers of information
• Think about what you like and don’t like
• Turn that around and think about what
readers like and don’t like
• Use your knowledge of how to effectively
target a specific audience to gain and
maintain a viewer’s interest in what
information you’re presenting to them

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Sample Portfolios Lie Ahead

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Design & Layout

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Design & Layout

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Design & Layout

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Design & Layout

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Design & Layout

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Live Tutorial
Now we will work on a brand new ePortfolio together 

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Part 3: The End 
Have a wonderful weekend!