Creating Your ePortfolio
What is an eportfolio?
An eportfolio is a “micro” Web site which serves as an online
resume. The purpose of an eportfolio is to allow potential employers
convenient access to information that may increase your probability for
getting that job or internship offer, and to elevate the amount of the
offer. It is a place where you can factually “toot your own
horn” by displaying your resume, links to courses which you have
taken, significant projects you have completed, awards and other accomplishments,
and other aspects of your professional and/or personal life that you feel
employers need to know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_portfolio
http://careercenter.tamu.edu/services/s24.html
What is included?
That’s your call. At a minimum, your eportfolio should include
a comprehensive resume. This resume should be appropriately formatted
for both on screen display and for printing. The resume should contain
your campus and permanent addresses, your academic background (major,
anticipated graduation date), your work experience, organizations and
activities in which you participated (mention the type of involvement
and emphasize leadership positions), honors and awards, and perhaps a
goal or objective statement. Beyond the resume, the eportfolio might
include samples of your work through writing or projects, a link to courses
you have taken (not to all, but to those targeted to your career area),
other work experiences you have had, links to organizations with which
you have been involved and a description of your involvement (particularly
leadership positions), and some carefully chosen material from your personal
life (notice I said CAREFULLY chosen… not Facebook kind of stuff!).
http://aggies-for-hire.tamu.edu/
http://careercenter.tamu.edu/guides/resumes/
Examples of enhancements
http://webtutor.tamu.edu/students/489/iltis/portfolio.html
http://webtutor.tamu.edu/students/489/burns/Portfolio/portfolio.html
http://webtutor.tamu.edu/students/489/beasley/portfolio/index.html
http://webtutor.tamu.edu/students/489/rose/homepage.html
How do I construct the eportfolio?
All students have access to Web space at Texas A&M University on people.tamu.edu.
http://people.tamu.edu/
Go to the Aggie Computing Gateway and activate your NetID if you have
not already done so.
http://gateway.tamu.edu/
Then go to the main page of people.tamu.edu, and click on the link to “Web
Space Setup”, log in, click on the link to “setup my Webpage”,
and then click the “enable” button. Be sure to copy
your Web page link from the acknowledgement page once your site is enabled.
From one of the Open Access Lab computers, use Dreamweaver or FrontPage
to design your Web site, placing your files in the “public_html” directory
in the “U” drive on the computer. As you gain experience
in working with the computer, you will also be able to FTP files into
your site. Consult the CIS documentation for more detailed information.
https://hdc.tamu.edu/reference/documentation/?section_id=413
We have created an illustrated
step-by-step tutorial to help you create
the first Web page in your eportfolio. This project should be a "work
in progress" and you should constantly keep it updated. You never know
when someone might see it!
Prepared by Dan Lineberger, 25 October 2006
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