The document outlines the importance of creating a professional development eportfolio, detailing different strategies for format selection, including blogging, LinkedIn, Facebook, and wikis. It highlights the benefits of showcasing personal growth, interests, and lifelong learning while providing evidence of teaching credentials. Criteria for selecting an eportfolio format include cost-effectiveness, flexibility, scalability, and return on investment.

1. Realizing your 1st
by James (Jim) Buckingham
MAODE (Open U), MA – Adult Education (Central Michigan), TEFL (Trinity)
at HCT – Men’s Campus, Al Ain , 14 April 2012

2. Realizing your 1st
Outline
• Why bother?
• Review how a PD ePortfolio differs
• Suggest criteria to help choose a format
• Strategy 1 - blogging with Wordpress
• Strategy 2 – LinkedIn
• Strategy 3 – Facebook
• Strategy 4 – wikis
• Resources

3. Realizing your 1st
Outline
• Why bother?
• Review how a PD ePortfolio differs
• Suggest criteria to help choose a format
• Strategy 1 - blogging with Wordpress
• Strategy 2 – LinkedIn
• Strategy 3 – Facebook
• Strategy 4 – wikis
• Resources

4. Realizing your 1st
• Why bother?
• evidence your PD growth
• demonstrate your interests / growth
• demonstrate your commitment to lifelong learning
• demonstrate a fundamental belief in personal /
professional growth
• gain accreditation / credit for your efforts
• replace your resume (?)

5. Realizing your 1st
• Why bother?
• evidence your PD growth
• demonstrate your interests / growth
• demonstrate your commitment to lifelong learning
• demonstrate a fundamental belief in personal /
professional growth
• gain accreditation / credit for your efforts
• replace your resume (?)

6. Realizing your 1st
• possible public?
• self
• peers
• employer
• association / accreditation body
• future employers
• Why bother?

7. Realizing your 1st
Outline
• Why bother?
• Review how a PD ePortfolio differs
• Suggest criteria to help choose a format
• Strategy 1 - blogging with Wordpress
• Strategy 2 – LinkedIn
• Strategy 3 – Facebook
• Strategy 4 – wikis
Resources

8. Realizing your 1st
• Review how a PD ePortfolio differs from
• employer portfolio
• prescriptive / limited
• length
• headings
• points to cover
• time frame to cover
• no interaction encouraged
• typically providing / offering an edited snapshot of
work / development covered by employee

9. Realizing your 1st
• Review a PD ePortfolio
• your ePortfolio for Pro Development
• focuses on development / interests
• identifying these over time
• identifying these with help of peers
• encourages sharing / networking with peers
• evidences your teaching credentials (accreditation)
• reflects what you deem to be important to your
professional goals / personal development

10. Realizing your 1st
Outline
• Why bother?
• Review how a PD ePortfolio differs
• Suggest criteria to help choose a format
• Strategy 1 - blogging with Wordpress
• Strategy 2 – LinkedIn
• Strategy 3 – Facebook
• Strategy 4 – wikis
Resources

11. Realizing your 1st
• Suggest criteria to help choose a format
• low cost / no cost
• easy to realize
• flexible
flexible & adaptable to changing needs (i.e. easy to edit)
as your skills advance, use more of the utilities available
• scalable
capable of growing in size & complexity as you grow
• good “ROI “
time & energy invested provides a return - "investment"

12. Realizing your 1st
Outline
• Why bother?
• Review how a PD ePortfolio differs
• Suggest criteria to help choose a format
• Strategy 1 - blogging with Wordpress
• Strategy 2 – LinkedIn
• Strategy 3 – Facebook
• Strategy 4 – wikis
Resources

13. Realizing your 1st
• Strategy 1 - blogging with Wordpress
Why a blog makes a good ePortfolio:
• low cost
set up website, domain - $60 yr
• easy to realize
requires some learning of Wordpress)
• easy to build upon / flexible
very flexible
• scalable
almost no limits
• offers good ROI
ease of sharing, ease of access, quickly logged by Google search)

14. Realizing your 1st
• Strategy 1 - blogging with Wordpress
Why a blog makes a good ePortfolio:
• store & organise content in dynamic ways
chronologically (like a diary)
personalised tagging systems.
• present personal profile to the world
like a website
• enable others to follow your activities
using RSS feeds (like subscribing to a newspaper)

15. Realizing your 1st
• Strategy 1 - blogging with Wordpress
Why a blog makes a good ePortfolio:
• Examples
• Barrett, H. (n.d.). Helen Barrett -My Portfolio. Helen
Barrett. Retrieved from
http://hbarrett.wordpress.com/my-portfolio/
• Buckingham, J. (n.d.). jamesbuckingham.net. Retrieved
April 13, 2012, from http://jamesbuckingham.net/
• VanDrimmelen, J. (n.d.). Jeff VanDrimmelen. Retrieved
April 13, 2012, from http://jeffvandrimmelen.info/

16. Realizing your 1st
Outline
• Why bother?
• Review how a PD ePortfolio differs
• Suggest criteria to help choose a format
• Strategy 1 - blogging with Wordpress
• Strategy 2 – LinkedIn
• Strategy 3 – Facebook
• Strategy 4 – wikis
Resources

17. Realizing your 1st
• Strategy 2 - LinkedIn
Why LinkedIn may be a good option:
• no cost
• easy to realize
requires some learning of LinkedIn
• easy to build upon
but less flexible than WordPress
• NOT as scalable
limits to the type& variety of content that can be added
• offers reasonable ROI
ease of sharing, ease of access, quickly logged by Google search but
sometimes limited to LinkedIn members only

18. Realizing your 1st
• Strategy 2 - LinkedIn
Why LinkedIn may be a good option:
• discussed by Sarah Stewart
• Stewart, S. (2011, January 22). Sarah Stewart: Does
LinkedIn work as an ePortfolio? Sarah Stewart. Retrieved
from http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2011/01/does-
linkedin-work-as-eportfolio.html

19. Realizing your 1st
• Strategy 2 - LinkedIn
Why LinkedIn may be a good option:
• Examples
• James Buckingham
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesbuckingham

20. Realizing your 1st
Outline
• Why bother?
• Review how a PD ePortfolio differs
• Suggest criteria to help choose a format
• Strategy 1 - blogging with Wordpress
• Strategy 2 – LinkedIn
• Strategy 3 – Facebook
• Strategy 4 – Wikis
Resources

21. Realizing your 1st
• Strategy 3 - Facebook
Why Facebook may be a good option:
• no cost
• easy to realize
requires some learning of LinkedIn
• easy to build upon
but less flexible than WordPress
• MUCH LESS scalable
limits to the type& variety of content that can be added
• offers reasonable ROI
ease of sharing, ease of access (750 million users), quickly logged by Google

22. Realizing your 1st
• Strategy 3 - Facebook
Why Facebook may be a good option:
• Resources
• ??????????

23. Realizing your 1st
Outline
• Why bother?
• Review how a PD ePortfolio differs
• Suggest criteria to help choose a format
• Strategy 1 - blogging with Wordpress
• Strategy 2 – LinkedIn
• Strategy 3 – Facebook
• Strategy 4 – Wikis
Resources

24. Realizing your 1st
• Strategy 4 - Wikis
Why Wikis may be a good option:
• no cost
• relatively easy to realize
requires some learning of each wiki format
• easy to build upon
very flexible ; perhaps as flexible as WordPress
• potentially scalable
depends on the wiki format used
• offers reasonable ROI
ease of sharing, ease of access (750 million users), quickly logged by Google

25. Realizing your 1st
• Strategy 4 - Wikis
Why Wikis may be a good option:
• Resources
• Creating an ePortfolio with Wikispaces. (2007). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5osJCF909qQ&feature=youtube_
gdata_player
• Creating ePortfolios with GoogleApps - ePortfolio Resources. (n.d.).
Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://sites.google.com/site/eportfolios/How-To-Create-ePortfolios-
with-GoogleApps
• Google Sites for ePortfolios. (2008). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDdLBcD68uA&feature=youtube
_gdata_player

26. Realizing your 1st
Outline
• Why bother?
• Review how a PD ePortfolio differs
• Suggest criteria to help choose a format
• Strategy 1 - blogging with Wordpress
• Strategy 2 – LinkedIn
• Strategy 3 – Facebook
• Strategy 4 – wikis
• Resources

27. Realizing your 1st
• Resources
Barrett, H. (n.d.-a). How To. Helen Barrett. Retrieved from http://hbarrett.wordpress.com/how-to/
Barrett, H. (n.d.-b). My Portfolio. Helen Barrett. Retrieved from http://hbarrett.wordpress.com/my-
portfolio/
Batson, T. (2010, April 7). ePortfolios, Finally! Campus Technology. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/04/07/eportfolios-finally.aspx
Buckingham, J. (n.d.). jamesbuckingham.net. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://jamesbuckingham.net/
Butterworth, A. (n.d.). Effective practice with e-portfolios. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2008/effectivepracticeeportfolios.aspx
Creating an ePortfolio with Wikispaces. (2007). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5osJCF909qQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
ePortfolio for Personal Development. (2008). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5w_XdroqUY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Google Apps. (n.d.). Creating ePortfolios with GoogleApps - ePortfolio Resources. Retrieved April
13, 2012, from http://sites.google.com/site/eportfolios/How-To-Create-ePortfolios-with-
GoogleApps

28. Realizing your 1st
• Resources
Google Sites for ePortfolios. (2008). Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDdLBcD68uA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Gray, L. (2008). Effective practice with e-portfolios : JISC. Higher Education Funding Council for
England. Retrieved from
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/effectivepracticeeportfolios.pdf
Gray, L. (n.d.). e-Portfolios - An overview. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/eportfolio
How to create e-portfolios for business, education, professional development or personal use.
(n.d.).Squidoo. Retrieved from http://www.squidoo.com/e-portfolios
Hussain, R., & Ng, H. (n.d.). A case-study: The adoption, adaptation and transformation of
Facebook as eportfolio in Higher Education. AACE Global Learn. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://www.aace.org/conf/glearn/sessions/index.cfm/fuseaction/PaperDetails?presentation_id=
47373
Learning Technologie - Virginia Techs. (n.d.). English as a Second Language Education. ePortfolio
Initiatives at Virginia Tech | Virginia Tech. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://eportfolio.vt.edu/gallery/DeptsProgs/englishassecondlanged.html
mjmobbs. (n.d.). Creating a ePortfolio Using Wordpress. Scribd. Retrieved from
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20842800/Creating-a-ePortfolio-Using-Wordpress

29. Realizing your 1st
• Resources
OASIS - University of North Caroline (Chapel Hill). (n.d.-a). Logging in / Introduction to Wordpress.
Retrieved from http://media.oasis.unc.edu/instructional_technology/wordpress/wordpress-
login-into.swf
OASIS - University of North Caroline (Chapel Hill). (n.d.-b). Writing / Editing Post page. Retrieved
from http://media.oasis.unc.edu/instructional_technology/wordpress/wordpress-edit-
content.swf
Silverman, R. E. (2012, January 24). No More Résumés, Say Some Firms. Wall Street Journal.
Retrieved from
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203750404577173031991814896.html#articleT
abs=article
Stewart, S. (2011, January 22). Sarah Stewart: Does LinkedIn work as an ePortfolio? Sarah
Stewart. Retrieved from http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2011/01/does-linkedin-work-as-
eportfolio.html
VanDrimmelen, J. (n.d.). Use Wordpress to Create a Professional e-Portfolio — OASIS - Office of
Arts & Sciences Information Services. OASIS - University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). Retrieved
April 13, 2012, from http://oasis.unc.edu/old-site/training/blog/use-wordpress-to-create-a-
professional-e-portfolio