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THE E-‐PORTFOLIO
Develop Your Digital Skills For Professional Presenta>on
For Educa>onal Purposes Only
Created by Judy Thomas, 2013
What is an E-‐PorMolio?
Documenta*on of work • Electronic Por4olio -‐ also called Digital Por4olio. • Tradi&onal Por,olio – Documenta>on representa>ve of a person's work hand assembled and presented in a case or binder.
• E-‐Por,olio – Documenta>on representa>ve of a person's work collected and presented in an electronic format
• Career Por,olio – Alternate term some>mes used for job applica>on
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• Provides a plaMorm for communica>on – 21st century communica>on tool
• Share via The Web – Can be shared with different audiences
– Offers an online presence • Promotes achievement and self-‐expression – Creates a forum for assessment in educa>on
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What is included in an E-‐PorMolio?
Documenta*on of work • Mission or Branding Statement • Electronic files – images, tables, charts – Do not use proprietary informa&on
• Mul>media – Audio & Video • Contact informa>on – website, email address, business phone – Do not include informa&on that is confiden&al
• Hyperlinks – Social Media, LinkedIn, etc. • Resume -‐ Do not include informa&on that is confiden&al
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Website -‐vs-‐ PDF
Website/Webpage • URL is unique address • Free webpage building templates • Graphic & Visual • Embed audio & video • Link to Blogs and Social Media • Independent & autonomous • Easy search on Web with tags hyperlinks and metadata
• Accessible any>me anywhere • Non-‐linear mapping layout
PDF • Share via Email, or FTP Server • Publish and export to Web • Control over audience • Private and secure • Create from PowerPoint, Word,
Illustrator, InDesign, etc. • Can reduce file size for email • Typically a linear format • Standard for sending resumes as
aaachments to prospec>ve employers
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Why create an Website?
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Get Started – 1st Steps
Scan flat images at 300 dpi Open scanner preferences! Large high end scanner in LTL PC Lab Or try Staples or ProPrint
Save images as high quality jpegs (.jpg), png or .gif. To web server, cloud AND flash drive. Keep all porMolio images and documents in ONE folder!
Make a list & check it twice. Stay on schedule!
Take digital photos with a camera, not your phone! Mul>ple photos with different segngs ensure quality.
Edit images for best quality. Judy Thomas, 2013
Get Started – Research Website, Webpage, or PDF
You Choose
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WEBSITE OR WEB PAGE Choose a template and customize for Your
Professional Presenta>on
hap://www.wix.com Judy Thomas, 2013
Some Defini>ons • Pinterest -‐a pin board-‐style photo sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-‐based image
collec>ons • Twi>er –an online social networking service and micro-‐blogging service that enables its users to send and read
text-‐based messaged of up to 140 characters, known as tweets. • SMS -‐ "Short Message Service." SMS is used to send text messages to mobile phones. The messages can typically
be up to 160 characters. • URL -‐ A uniform resource locator, abbreviated URL, also known as web address, is a specific character string used
by Web browsers, email clients and other somware to iden>fy a network resource on the internet. • FTP -‐ File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host or to another
host over a TCP-‐based network, such as the Internet. • TCP -‐ The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. TCP is one of the
two original components of the suite, complemen>ng the Internet Protocol (IP), and therefore the en>re suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP.
• Protocol-‐ A standard procedure for regula>ng data transmission between computers. • Mul*media -‐ the combined use of several media such as sound and full-‐ mo>on video in computer applica>ons. • Hyperlink -‐ word, phrase, picture, icon, etc, in a computer document on which a user may click to move to another
part of the document or to another document • PDF – : Portable Document Format is a file format that preserves most aaributes of a source document no
maaer which plaMorm, applic>on, or hardware type was used to create the original document. • Jpeg -‐format for compressing images, acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created the
statndard • GIF –: Portable Document Format; GIFs are image files that are compressed to reduce transfer >me. • Png -‐ PNG is short for Portable Network Graphics and was created as a more powerful
alternative to the GIF file format
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References & Sources Interac>ve Resume & Page Resources hap://www.thinglink.com hap://storify.com/tour Online Image Storage hap://www.flickr.com cloud.google.com/storage PorMolio website builders hap://www.wix.com WordPress.com hap://www.iwebtemplate.com hap://www.squarespace.com Addi>onal Resources hap://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page hap://www.lynda.com haps://www.acrobat.com hap://office.microsom.com/en-‐us/support/?CTT=97 hap://testkitchen.colorado.edu/projects/resources-‐digital-‐news/student-‐porMolio-‐>ps/ hap://chrisfriend.us/Blog/files/digital-‐porMolios.php
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