WEEK 8- E-PORTFOLIO
This week we will talk about E-Portfolio. First off, what exactly is E-Portfolio? E-Portfolio is an electronic collection of all your work over time. Just think of it as a representation of yourself over the web. Your E-Portfolio shows your progress, development and your achievements. It is used widely across the university, to help document, organize, assess and give credit. For example: the IDS E-Portfolio says,
"The Interdisciplinary Studies Program uses the Porfolio@UCF system for two reasons:
One is to help you build a professional electronic portfolio to use for job interviews or/and graduate school.
The second is to measure your learning in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program over time.
Throughout this semester and beyond, you will be accumulating work that will be used to create your e-Portfolio." -IDS E-Portfolio
Three types of E-Portfolios:
Developmental - (Working)- An E-Portfolio is a record of things that the owner has done over a period of time, and may be directly tied to learner outcomes.
Reflective - (Learning)- An E-Portfolio includes personal reflection on the content and what it means for the owner's development
Representational - (Showcase)- An E-Portfolio shows the owner's achievements in relation to particular work or developmental goals and is, therefore, selective. When it is used for job application it is sometimes called Career portfolio.
With all this being said, answer the questions below:
1. How will your e-Portfolio demonstrate your interdisciplinarity?
2. What is the audience / purpose you're thinking of using?
3. What things are using as artifacts and why?
4. Share how you're planning to use reflection in developing your e-Portfolio content pages
5. Share your understanding of reflection. How is it different from description?
***Please be sure to put your name on your post and also remember to post on time, to ensure you of your credit. Also, if you have any questions? Be sure to ask, we are here to help. :)
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Because my disciplines are Business, Interpersonal Communications, and Public Administration I can easily demonstrate my interdisciplinarity. My Business history is easily documented and will show my experience over the last 22 years. I can’t say that I’ve done it all in the business arena but I can showcase all the aspects of my past career using the many business related artifacts. The Interpersonal Communications portion can also be demonstrated by several artifacts from my previous career. The Public Administration portion of the e-portfolio will have several new artifacts that come from my present endeavor. I am a political campaign manager and treasurer of my boyfriend’s campaign for Commissioner of Canaveral Port Authority. This experience has provided me with new found interest in public administration and politics.
ReplyDeleteLinda DIggs
My audience is not typical of most Interdisciplinary students because I am not planning to return to the work force. I have had a satisfying career in the military that spanned 22.5 years, three continents, and one marriage that gave me two wonderful children. My e-portfolio is not targeted to an audience for job hunting or professional development. My audience is friends and family and the purpose is to entertain and educate.
ReplyDeleteLinda DIggs
I have collected many artifacts over the course of my long and successful military career. I have awards, citations, and military decorations that honor my military service. I have numerous photographs of me in my uniform taken all over the world. I also have performance appraisals, letters of appreciation, and service related course certificates. I also have many wall plaques and shield for various achievements and awards. Additionally, I have my Community College of the Air Force transcript and diploma and my two Brevard Community College diplomas. I have a power point slide show from my Interpersonal Communications class and several class papers. The artifacts I treasure the most are the pictures of me with my family while in the military.
ReplyDeleteLInda Diggs
I plan on using several written reflections to show my history of accomplishment in the military. Since my career is not typical and does not directly compare to a civilian career, I want to highlight the similarities and the qualities that are comparable. Many people think that a military career is all about carrying weapons and conducting war games in the desert, so I dispel that rumor with my reflections.
ReplyDeleteI consider a reflection to be a “look back” at what has happened in the past. My reflection will not only have descriptions but also have my lessons learned from my military experiences. I want to show how I have grown and benefitted from the successes and failures throughout my career.
LInda Diggs
1. How will your e-Portfolio demonstrate your interdisciplinarity?
ReplyDeleteMy e-Portfolio will showcase my coursework and artifacts from each area and minor, as well as material that represents the how the three are blended in my studies. Through reflection, my artifacts will be explained and the insight gained from the experiences where they were acquired will be shared.
2. What is the audience / purpose you're thinking of using?
I’d like to e-Portfolio for employment but I think I’m going to focus it on graduate school first, and alter it later. Specifically, my audience is the personnel of University of North Florida’s Master of Education program: Special Education with Concentration in American Sign Language/English Interpreting.
Hope Diehl
3. What things are using as artifacts and why?
ReplyDeleteAs of now, I don’t have a lot. There are a couple book reviews (my minor is English) that involve sociology and American Sign Language (both of my areas). There’s also memorabilia from educational workshops in ASL I’ve attended and I.D.s from jobs I’ve held. I’m going to find artifacts with the most inclusion across my disciplines.
4. Share how you're planning to use reflection in developing your e-Portfolio content pages.
I plan to explain how I stumbled upon the Deaf World, decided to interpret, and share the experiences I’ve had since. Via this reflection, I hope to showcase my love for writing as well as many aspects of my personality.
Hope Diehl
5. Share your understanding of reflection. How is it different from description?
ReplyDeleteReflection is looking back on specific experiences and sharing the effect they had on you and the knowledge gained. Description is not personal. It does not go into detail about YOU: your feelings, your thoughts, YOUR sudden epiphanies! A description of your coursework can show your audience your interests, but not what it is about those subjects that interest you.
Hope Diehl
My E-Portfolio will demonstrate interdisciplinarity through the showcasing of accomplished work, related to specific academic interests. The audience for my portfolio will be graduate programs; thus, they will need to see that I am adequately prepared and committed to a research program that aligns with interests in their faculty. I will, therefore, carefully select and structure material that displays an understanding of, and propensity for, my areas of interest.
ReplyDeleteKyle Larimer
As my portfolio will be designed to express particular research interests, the artifacts I choose will need to significantly augment the descriptive/reflective subject matter. My primary source of artifacts will come from research projects I have conducted. Thus far, I have a few abstracts, and I hope to have a few more from class-related research, as well as extracurricular research with faculty. I decided to use artifacts from my research because graduate programs can be highly selective and will want to see that one has substantial experience in their field of interest.
ReplyDeleteKyle Larimer
Reflection is an important facet of a well-structured E-Portfolio. Rather than simply describing the experience one has incurred, reflection ties past experience with current states of affairs. For example, when reflecting on a past course in neurobiology, one must explain how insights gleaned from that course have affected one's outlook on current dealings. I intend to reflect upon my past courses in light of the honors thesis, which I plan on accomplishing.
ReplyDeleteKyle Larimer
How will your e-Portfolio demonstrate your interdisciplinarity?
ReplyDeleteMy e-portfolio will demonstrate my interdisciplinary because the work that is accumulated, will be based off of my classes: ex education, ASL and behavior psychology. This is important because my e-Portfolio is what I will be showing future employers about my accomplishments and goals for my future. This is also important because I will be able to continue to add to my e-portfolio with future accomplishments and new documents that will be beneficial to store.
Carly Frost
- What is the audience / purpose you're thinking of using? The audience for me is future employers. I think it's important to be able to have a place to store information that will be useful for easy access when needed.
ReplyDelete- What things are using as artifacts and why?
The things I am using for artifacts are documents that will show my accomplishments. Certain ones would be: mind map, research project in my behavior management class and my story book for teaching a special education child how to easily accomplish what may seem like a hard task.
-Carly Frost
-Share how you're planning to use reflection in developing your e-Portfolio content pages. I think reflections are important because they help set you apart from others. They are based solely off of what you as an individual have been through and no one else can have the same experience as me.
ReplyDelete-Share your understanding of reflection. How is it different from description? Reflection is different than description because anyone can describe what is happening in a certain situation or what can take from it but a reflection is personal. No one else can reflect on my own life like I can, because no one else has lived it.
Carly Frost
How will your e-portfolio demonstrate your interdisciplinarity?
ReplyDeleteMy e-portfolio will demonstrate what I have learned in the “real working world”, but also share what I am learning right now and how they relate to one another. I have had a great deal of experience in working with communication, which is my minor. I have volunteered at a local hospital and have some public health knowledge, which is my other area. My final area is business/marketing, which I have also had a good amount of experience in. Although I have experience in all three fields I am studying, I still have a lot to learn. I will be showing what I have learned thus far including artifacts that helped me get there through a reflective e-portfolio.
Christina Hope
What is the Audience/purpose you’re thinking of using?
ReplyDeleteI would like to use my e-portfolio when going in for a job interview. I think by impressing the employer with your knowledge and value, your showing them you could be an asset to their company. I want to blow away an employer at an interview with what I have gained while going to school and with my work experience. What good is it to me if I finish school and have nothing to show for it? I am proud of myself and what I have gained thus far and am looking forward to showing my achievements to help me succeed in what I want out of life.
Christina Hope
What things are you using as artifacts and why?
ReplyDeleteI did marketing and account work for a previous restaurant, so I can use all the letters , documents and files to show what I am capable of. For example, I have letters to local business’, flyers that I put together for events, expense sheets and how to run a successful business without completely drowning. There are lots of things you can cut out that you don’t have to have immediately. I have a letter of appreciation for my volunteer work at the hospital. It states that I am will be a value to a company some day and that I was a hard worker and had a positive attitude. I have several awards from employee of the month to most personable at my current job. It shows I have great communication skills. I was a manger at a current job and managed thirty employees, which took a lot of communication to make the shifts go smoothly.
Christina Hope
Share how you’re planning to use reflection in developing your e-portfolio content pages.
ReplyDeleteI plan to show how I decided to study these three areas and why I think my journey has gotten me here. I had changed my major three times, as a lot of students do. I was always trying to figure out what I wanted to do to make money, instead of what I was passionate about. My grandfather kept telling me to be a communication major and I just wanted a business degree, which was actually quite boring to me. As a year went by I heard about the IDS program and how you can study three areas. So now I had the chance to study what I knew I was meant to do, communicate and still study business to get the knowledge I wanted to have. Then picking public health was an easy pick because I want to do something with health and help people. It is amazing that as you get older, you are so much more knowledgeable and everything finially starts to make sense. I will be reflecting my path and my journey, that I am so looking forward to.
Share your understanding of reflection. How is it different from description.
I will be looking back on certain experiences, struggles and success’ to show I got to this point. I will show the important things I learned and what I know now that will help me go far. It is more on the lines of what I have learned, not so much on my stories.. as shown in my previous blog. I want to showcase what I have accomplished and show what I have learned thus far. I would like to highlight what I thought before going into school to what I know now. It is all a learning experience and I want to show that I can always learn something and that I am knowledgeable in my fields of study.
Christina Hope
As we all know, E-Portfolio is a important tool. Most use it as a mode to present their work for future possibilities. Some use it as a way to show their achievements for self fulfillment. Lets see what you and your fellow classmates use E-Portfolio for:
ReplyDeleteLinda D- “My e-portfolio is not targeted to an audience for job hunting or professional development. My audience is friends and family and the purpose is to entertain and educate.”
Hope D.- “Specifically, my audience is the personnel of University of North Florida’s Master of Education program: Special Education with Concentration in American Sign Language/English Interpreting.”
Kyle L.- “The audience for my portfolio will be graduate programs; thus, they will need to see that I am adequately prepared and committed to a research program that aligns with interests in their faculty.”
Carly F. - “My e-Portfolio is what I will be showing future employers about my accomplishments and goals for my future.”
Christina H. - “I would like to use my e-portfolio when going in for a job interview.”
One thing that we can take away from E-Portfolio, is that it is a way to display all the accomplishments, dedication and hard work that ‘YOU’ put into your studies.
Group 16
How will your e-Portfolio demonstrate your interdisciplinarity?
ReplyDeleteMy e-Portfolio will show my interdisciplinarity by showing my wide range of academics and experiences. The good thing about the e-Portfolio is that it is not limited to just one page like a resume. You are able to really expand on what your strengths are.
Callie Gaines
What is the audience / purpose you're thinking of using?
ReplyDeletePossibly prospective employers... The e-Portfolio seems a little unconventional as far as job opportunities go, but if an employer is willing to look through it, it would be extremely helpful.
Callie Gaines
What things are using as artifacts and why?
ReplyDeleteI have used mostly photos as my artifacts because they show much of what I have participated in. Mostly, in my internships, where animal work was prevalent, the photos of my work with them is some of the best proof/ memories I have.
Callie Gaines
Share how you're planning to use reflection in developing your e-Portfolio content pages.
ReplyDeleteBy using reflection, I'm planning to meld all of my past academics and experiences together, in order to show the true meaning of interdisciplinary. I plan on tying in my biology/life science coursework, with my experience from the zoos I've worked for, as well as the education and tours I've provided.
Callie Gaines
Share your understanding of reflection. How is it different from description?
ReplyDeleteA reflection is looking back at the things you've done and describing them in a way that helps summarize and combine all the aspects. A description is just a brief explanation of something you did, whereas a reflection is essentially why you did it.
Callie Gaines
How will your e-Portfolio demonstrate your interdisciplinarity?
ReplyDeleteAn electronic portfolio is a great way for me to highlight my interdisciplinary. In a traditional sense, it is a great way to market myself in a dynamic way. My resume, artifacts, and other information are stored online, visible anytime through a URL address. It is a long term tool, and the ability to constantly update it keeps it relevant over time. Along with highlighting my disciplinary skills in Business and Computer Science, it also serves as a platform for self-expression and a method for me to display my work and talent in an interactive way.
- Matthew Schaller
What is the Audience/Purpose you’re thinking of using?
ReplyDeleteI believe that the primary purpose of my e-Portfolio is to, while highlighting my educational background in Business, Computer Science, and Humanities, more importantly act as a medium to display my capabilities as a computer technician, programmer, and network engineer. With intent to enter the IT field after graduation (and hopefully let them pay for my Masters,) my portfolio would be catered towards employers of that field. An e-Portfolio is the perfect tool for this because, unlike a paper resume or a charismatic interview, it offers me the ability to present the reader with tangible examples of my work such as Web and Graphic design, and my programming skills.
- Matthew Schaller
“What things are using as artifacts and why?”
ReplyDeleteThe e-Portfolio will essentially serve me the same purpose as an art portfolio would serve an artist. As previously described, artifacts that I will consider including are graphic art galleries of my work, web design templates, and examples of successful e-marketing campaigns.
- Matthew Schaller
Share how you're planning to use reflection in developing your e-Portfolio content pages
ReplyDeleteUsing a chronological list of artifacts, I can show how my Incremental development of skills, both through education and work experience, have honed as well as increased my talents. It can show how, over the course of my adult life, I have developed as a person as well as a professional.
- Matthew Schaller
Share your understanding of reflection. How is it different from description?
ReplyDeleteI believe that Reflection and Description have similarities and share certain characteristics. However, the act of reflection is a much more in-depth process in general. To describe, is to tell about the nature of something. The computer in front of me is rather easy to describe. It is square, it hums, and it does a lot of my work for me. However, to reflect upon my computer is much more in-depth task. Why do I own my computer? Who paid for it? When was it made? How computers were first developed? Reflection includes much more than a description. It requires one to look into not only the nature of something, but the reason, cause, and effect as well. It demands that a person go deeper than the description, to analyze the thoughts, feelings, emotions, and reasons behind it.
- Matthew Schaller