Part Two - Developing your Message

Contents

Identify Plans

Look Ahead

Define a Purpose and Target Audience for your e-Portfolio

Select your most important evidence

Select an Organizational Strategy

 

Identify Plans

Activity 3

Driving Questions

In what situation do you hope to find yourself in 2 years? 5 years?

    Look Ahead

  1. Create a bulleted list that contains statements, adjectives, or goals that you hope will describe you 2 years from now, and then 5 years from now.

  2. Use the list to write a short narrative in which you explain to someone else where you would like to be in 2 years, and then 5 years from now.


 

Define a Purpose and Target Audience for Your e-Portfolio

Activity 4

Driving Questions

Let's get specific... With whom might you expect to share your e-Portfolio in the next year? What might you expect to get out of sharing your e-Portfolio?

Select

  1. Read through the Select section of the http://portfolio.psu.edu web site. In particular, be sure to read the page titled, "Define the Target Audience."

  2. Identify your target audience. Make a list of the individuals that you would like to invite to visit your site.

  3. Make a list of the reasons why you would invite the individuals on your list to your site. What would you want them to get out of their visit?

 

Select Your Most Important Evidence

Activity 5

Driving Questions

What pieces of evidence would absolutely have to be included in a description of who you are?

Make a list of the top 5 pieces of evidence (work samples, experiences, events, reflective narratives) that are the most important in describing who you are -- i.e., what you know, what you can do, and what you value.

 

Select an Organizational Strategy

Activity 6

Driving Questions

Of your Top 5 pieces of evidence, which is most important? What would come first? Second? What do your Top 5 pieces of evidence say about you?

  1. Create a priority list for your Top 5 pieces of evidence. Is there a pattern or a theme among these pieces of evidence? How would you categorize these Top 5?

  2. Based on your thinking in part a), identify an organizational strategy that best matches or fits your evidence. If you select categories, choose category names that highlight your evidence. Review the Select or the Gallery sections of the e-Portfolio Web site for other organizational strategy options.



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