e-Portfolios are rapidly becoming a popular way to efficiently share information about what you know, what you can do, and what you value.
The purpose of this module is to walk you through the fundamental design decisions involved in creating a useful and informative e-portfolio. This module will also lead to resources that will improve your technology skills as you develop your own e-portfolio.
Use the information in this module as a guide when you are asked to share information about yourself, so that someone else will be able to appreciate who you are.
Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:
- identify important sources and strategies for collecting evidence about your experiences relevant to you,
- employ strategies for the selection and presentation of appropriate evidence for the intended audience of your e-portfolio,
- enhance the value of your evidence by strategically including reflective commentary emphasizing context and meaning, and
- employ the basic information technology skills required in order to publish a simple e-portfolio so that can efficiently share this information with others.
There are four sections to this module. Each section includes Driving Questions to focus your thinking, short readings from the e-Portfolio Web site to help you answer these questions, and activities which will help you develop your own e-Portfolio!
Part One – Collecting Evidence
Part Two – Developing Your Message
Part Three – Adding Reflective Commentary (Adding Value to the Message)
The first three modules focus on the process of developing an e-Portfolio and should be reviewed in order. Part Four focuses on the skills needed to create web pages so that you can publish your e-Portfolio online and can be taken at any time.
The Penn State's e-Portfolio Initiative is housed in the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and is supported by both Information Technology Services and the Division of Student Affairs to provide a university-wide service that promotes the productive use of students' Personal Web Space to save and publish coursework and evidence of co-curricular learning for the purposes of documenting, reflecting upon and showcasing their Penn State experience.
The materials for the iStudy for Success modules were originally developed at the Jack P. Royer Center for Learning and Academic Technologies.
Additional materials were developed and assistance was provided by the University Learning Centers (ULC), University Park.
The ANGEL version of the modules is being administered by Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT), a unit of Information Technology Services. For more information about iStudy for Success modules, please contact tlt@psu.edu
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