Description
Portfolio Uses and Media
The purpose of this exercise is to help you become familiar with the many lasting uses of your professional portfolio. This exercise will also help you become acquainted with electronic portfolios as you think about the media that you will use to deliver your professional portfolio to interested audiences in your future.Chapters 6 and 7 in How to Develop a Professional Portfolio, 6th ed. provide information that will help you to complete this exercise. Please refer to these chapters as you complete this assignment. Refer directly to the textbook, in your own writing, as needed. Cite appropriately.Part One: Write About Portfolio Uses (250-300 words)
First, skim Chapter 6 of the textbook. This chapter discusses ways to use professional portfolios for job placement and throughout your career. As you skim this chapter, think about the portfolio that you are designing and how you believe it will work for you in your field.To complete this part of the assignment, write a 250-300 word essay that responds to the following questions:- In what ways do you think you will use your professional portfolio?
- How might your professional portfolio function during a job interview?
- How, specifically, will you make your portfolio work in your favor?
Next, skim Chapter 7 of the textbook. This chapter discusses the benefits of electronic portfolios, and it provides some strategies for organizing and developing a portfolio in this medium.Drawing from the information in the chapter and thinking about your specific portfolio and its future audience, write a 250-300 word essay that responds to the following questions:- What is the ideal medium (context for design and delivery) for your portfolio? Why?
- How does your ideal medium correspond with your portfolio’s expected audience?
- Thinking about your ideal medium, what strategies will you use to organize and store your artifacts?
- What is your plan for designing and delivering your professional portfolio in a way that is accessible to your audience?
The Structure
The purpose of this exercise is to help you build a professional portfolio. You will then learn how to create two documents that summarize the content of your professional portfolio.- A Table of Contents
- A Portfolio Brochure
The first four sections included in your table of contents might follow this generally accepted format:- Preface
- About the Author
- Teaching/Administrative Philosophy
- Personal Data
- Resume
- Letter of Recommendation
- Transcripts
- Student Teaching Evaluations
- Artifacts for Self-developed Learning Outcomes*
- Artifact for (name self-developed learning outcome #1)
- (Title of Artifact #1)
- (Title of Artifact #2)
- Artifacts for Standards**
- Artifact for (Title of Standard)
- (Title of Artifact #1)
- (Title of Artifact #2)
- Conclusion***
- REFLECT on one standard at a time.
- SELECT at least one artifact to feature within a standard [or self-developed learning outcome].
- FOCUS on the teaching behaviors that this artifact shows.
- REWORD your teaching behaviors into concise, specific statements in the past tense.
- CLARIFY your teaching behaviors by writing a short descriptor of the competency demonstrated directly above the name of the artifact.
- CONTINUE steps 1 through 5 for each standard [or self-developed learning outcome].
- CUT and PASTE the list of information using a larger piece of paper or a computer.
- EDIT the contents of your draft brochure.
- SELECT desktop design software that will assemble your text to catch the reader’s eye.
Explanation & Answer
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Uses of Portfolio
A portfolio is a document used to plan, organize and document an individual's education,
work samples, and skills. It acts as a document that demonstrates that an individual has
undertaken various activities and objectives which have helped make certain achievements with
relation to the individual’s career. For students who want to further their learning interest, a
portfolio enables the learner to become more reflective, be in a position to recognize his/her
strengths and weaknesses and as well gain more awareness of their learning process. Show That
You Meet the Standards. A portfolio can also be used to indicate one's...