Wednesday, September 23, 2009
E Portfolio
Hey all! It appears we are a little behind. That doesn't work well in these courses. Our next Blog Topic will be up by the 27th. Okay, eportfolio. This helps demonstrate your being an interdisciplinary artist by showcasing the different work and classes you studied. The audience intended will be your future employers. All themes need to focus on this end result. I envision my ePortfolio looking like a super-fantastic resume. I've worked in the professional world and even hired and managed employees. So, I have a sneak into what they are looking for. Honest, concise and short! But not too short! :) You want items to stand out that you feel make you better suited than another candidate. What do you have that they don't? Your evidence needs to be applicable to what you plan on doing after you graduate. Don't look for topics that are "easy", but that really will show your future employers how seriously you take being interdisciplinary and how uniquely qualified you are for them.
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Thank you for your insights Rhonda. I intend to use my ePortfolio for application to graduate school. I agree that this format is a great way to show my interdisciplinarity. When I apply for a Master's in Public health, I can show how I've combined the Biomedical sciences with Health, and also have a background in Public Administration, which can be helpful for the Administration side of Health. Also, I can show the other "evidence" from my extracurricular activities such as my volunteering with a lifestyle seminar.
ReplyDeleteI like your analogy of using the ePortfolio as a "fantastic resume." A resume often doesn't include all of the things I want to show. The ePortfolio, with the personal statement and other elements, shows a more personal side and who I really am and what I'm passionate about. I think it's a great supplement for application to graduate school.
What do you think about when you use it,if you do, for a job? I feel awkward about asking them to go to a site to view me. I think I might print off pages. . .Hmmm. Thoughts?
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ReplyDeleteE-Portfolio is a great tool to display all of our interdisciplinary experiences and skills. When you enter the website, as you all probably know, you can view different tabs with different aspects of their interdisciplinary undertakings.
ReplyDeleteI personally will be displaying my e-Portfolio in attempts to show graduate schools what I am all about. As I plan on attending pharmacy school, they require a lot in the application process. I hope that if given the opportunity to show them my portfolio, I will gain a step up on some of the other applicants.
While grades and academics are very important to show graduate schools, I also hope to include my volunteer and work experiences. I envision my e-portfolio being an organized and professional display of all of this. I also hope that by using this extra application tool, it shows the schools my ambition towards success.
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ReplyDeleteI've thought about how I would showcase my portfolio to my grad school also. They go through thousands of applications and I certainly know they aren't going to take the time to look up a website if it's listed in my application. However you're idea of maybe printing out maybe a couple pages sounds plausible. I think that would be our best bet, I was also thinking about if you have business cards, you could put the page on their for employers.
I envision my e-portfolio being a convenient and organized online resume. In fact, I think it would have a lot more to offer about me as a person than the typical hand-typed resume. On my e-portfolio, I would like my extracurricular activities to stand out. Yes, academics are important, but having good grades is just the bare minimum nowadays. I got involved in random activities here and there and I feel it makes my portfolio a little more colorful. I want to exhibit that I am a well rounded person that is interested in more than just my majors. I think my academics and my involvement in the community demonstrate my interdisciplinarity. Integrating different aspects of my skills and interests is what interdisciplinarity is supposed to be about.
ReplyDeleteCome to think of it, I don't even really understand how to get employers to view my e-portfolio either. I never considered how I would enable them to view it. I probably would have printed out certain pages as well. Then again, in this day and age, technology has been very forthcoming so maybe employers expect online resume's now? I know there are websites that allow you to post your resume online so that employers can find you instead of the other way around. Should I put my portfolio on one of these sites?
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of a business card to attach to the resume for "further viewing." Great idea! I don't know if you can add a whole portfolio. They usually have you cut and paste or add a word document. We should look into that.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good idea about putting the ePortfolio as a link on a business card. It was my question as well, do the ePortfolios get a unique website once we're done with them or how can we have grad schools view them? Even if they don't end up going to our online portfolio, I think it will be helpful to have the introduction, personal statement and evidence for each of our areas. Usually colleges require this things upon application so this is good for getting a head start on compiling all this info. I think it's definitely a useful tool even for us to see what we've done and which areas may need a little more "evidence."
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ReplyDeleteI was under the impression that once the e-porfolios are complete you could just tell people what your "http" link was if they wanted to visit your portfolio. And I agree, even if our employers or grad schools don't see our portfolio first hand, I know it's going to keep me organized so I will have something to write on the application papers when time comes. I hate having to research the time-line of my life every time I want to fill out a resume/application. This will definitely help.
I agree with all of these insights, ePortfolio is going to be a helpful tool, whether it is for grad school applications or future employment. I think one of the important things of ePortfolio is to show off our interdisciplinarity. I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to do this. By seperating my majors and minor with their respective evidence, I feel it will be harder to show the connection between all of them. I think the topic for next is integration, so hopefully this will clear that up. Maybe a seperate page is needed to show the true interdisciplinarity that my major and extracurricular activities have.
ReplyDeleteThere were a lot of good ideas posted here within the past few days. I never considered how I would make my e-portfolio available to the public. The business card idea is clever. I never would have thought of that! I think my portfolio will be fairly easy to keep even though my majors and minor are different. They each relate to one another in some way.
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