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Items to accomplish during the current course time frame:

•Read\Review
   • What are portfolios

Highlights from White Paper
   • Document steps related to life/career development to share with faculty, employers, etc.
   • College students use Portfolios
      • Artisitic or communications
      • Other fields as well
   • Job Seekers
      • Show sample work
      • Document items on résumé
   • Increasingly electronic, too
Steps (page 6)
   •Build; document experiences
   •Profile
   •Résumé
   •References
   •Artifacts, samples of work in a variety of formats
   •Manage, up to three versions
   •Referred users view portfolio (faculty, peers, potential employers


 http://www.uwrf.edu/CareerServices/ResumesAndApplicationMaterials.cfm

How to create portfolios
   • What is a portfolio
      •recognize the skills and abilities you possess in relationship to a career. This is also an excellent way to market your qualifications
   • Who uses portfolios
      •document work experience, achievements and skills
      •self assessment
      •portfolio can serve as an invaluable tool for you to demonstrate your skills to a potential employer
   • When to use
      •to get an interview, during an interview
   • Why electronic?
      •Electronic portfolios are web pages /CD-ROM to be used to SUPPLEMENT the hard-copy version of your portfolio
      •CD High quality
      •Web for ease of access

   • Steps
      •Collect
      •Sort
      •Filter
      •Final Touches
      •Interview

Items combined during the semester:
Create a profile, résumé and references
Create and collect artifacts that document experience, in several formats
   • Office
      •Word
      •PowerPoint
   • Adobe CS4
      •Acrobat
      •Photoshop
      •Audio/Video Editing
Manage; Sort and filter for various formats and versions
   • Dreamweaver for Web
      • Faculty review
   • Burn CD
      • Faculty review      
Present Porfolio


•Activities
   • What is Creative Suite?
• Intro to Acrobat
   Features
     Portability
     Other creation options
     Printing
     Scanning
     OCR
     Editing
     managing the documents
     Online content/forms
     Protecting

• Create a Résumé in Word to have ready for Lab 1
   •Spelling résumé
   •Creating a résumé (From My Word notes) , a hand-crafted résumé sample
   •How to: Word my notes on using Word

 Video Available  (If using Word 2007, using a 2007 template for a résumé, video example)

•Submit by 11:59 pm, Friday, of the current week (see due dates)   
      • Logon to D2L
   • MUD 2 (My Understanding, Details) Respond in the class D2L Discussion forum to the following:
      What topics, if any, during this time frame do you feel very comfortable with? Why?
      What topics, if any, during this time frame do you not feel comfortable with?
   • Participation Discussion 2 Respond in the class D2L Discussion forum to the following:
      Discuss your level of computer experience, if any.
     • Using D2L discussions      • Logon to D2L
      • to Checklist

For the next time frame:
   •About portfolios (More coming soon)
•Each test has a review; you may wish to write out pertinent information from the readings and activities
•After completing this overview, you may wish to start on the next Overview material, and preview Lab 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checklist
Did you:
This is a work in progress, let me know if you would like more

•Reply to Participation Discussion Topic 2 and MUD 2 in Desire2Learn (D2L)
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