Due: June 12 (11:59PM)
Next week, we’ll be taking up some “usability testing” of our ePortfolios, making it essential that we all get caught up with all 4 ePortfolio assignments by the deadline. (I’ve streamlined our work as much as possible to enable students who are a little behind in ePortfolio to get caught up.)
For those of us caught up on the ePortfolio work, roll forward with round IV! If you fell behind on the ePortfolio work in the first half of the term, you must now play catch up or risk not getting peer feedback that helps you strengthen your work. Please, please, please finish through ePortfolio IV by June 12!
Your Task
2-2.5 HOURS over the week. Build out content and reflective framing for the courses; get the resume more or less in shape; and try out an engaging way to introduce ourselves on the home page.
WORK ON EPORTFOLIO (SEE EPORTFOLIO SAMPLE FOR GUIDANCE)
The more of this you can do in Week 4, the less you’ll need to do in Weeks 5 & 6 – and the more helpful the peer feedback will be.
- Work that About Me or Home page.
- I won’t overburden you with requirements on this page, but it is the FIRST impression people will have of you. And we know that you never get a second chance to make a first impression!
- “The 35 Best Personal Websites…” can be a resource; “23 of the Best Personal Websites…” is another.
- The point is not to copy the examples. Rather, it is to draw inspiration, to notice what it is that pops or is compelling. Maybe a big, bold photo? Maybe it’s creative use of alignment and some really interesting copy? Maybe (and I’m serious) a video? Maybe not.
- Start to make that Resume work for you!
- It’s important to make a PDF of a print resume and have it available as a one-click download on the resume page, but that’s not enough in the digital age because that requires another click.
- Need help with a print resume? Google Docs has some templates. Just go into your Drive and choose New>Docs and move to the right arrow to select From a Template. Scroll down and you’ll get some pre-formatted options. You can easily download your resume as a PDF once it’s done. Then you can use the “add media” button to get it to your ePortfolio. From there, you can easily make a link to the PDF resume.
- Take your resume content – or some of it – and present it on your Resume page.
- The Jimdo Blog for Entrepreneurs has a nice post about website resumes: “Build a Resume Website That Employers Will Love.”
- A resource for ideas/examples is 10 Creative Resume Ideas (Business Tuts).
- Another good resource, with templates, is Quintessential’s Web Resume Samples by job title.
- You can use some of what you’re learning at Codecademy to style using the Heading 2, Heading 3, etc., the Unordered List tool, and more.
- It’s important to make a PDF of a print resume and have it available as a one-click download on the resume page, but that’s not enough in the digital age because that requires another click.
- Three courses, plus WRT 304, with framing of the content/selections.
- We’ve mostly had placeholder pages until now. It’s time to decide on at least three courses to feature, in addition to WRT 304. Decide this week. (Hey, it’s your website. You can add, remove, or alter at any time!)
- Get the “official” course description for those courses (and WRT 304) from the UNE catalog. Paste and quote that description right on the page that names the course.
- Don’t let bland university copy speak for what you got from the course! Now you get to write some engaging copy that says something about what you learned or did in the course. That text you write goes before the “official” copy to help a reader grasp WHAT you think is important about what you got from each course. If it helps, think of it as “the student’s course description.”
- AFTER the official copy, you want to have links to one or more work samples that you think showcase your learning or abilities. You also need to frame those work samples with 3-7 sentences that you think capture what the sample shows about your learning or your abilities.
- I recommend handling this the same way we handle the DS106 pages. We make a page for a DS106 assignment, and we have a link from the DS106 page to that assignment page.
- You could put the framing on the Course page OR on the work sample page. If you have only one sample for a course, I suggest putting it on the Course page. If you have several samples, perhaps three videos showing different speeches from a Speech class, I’d suggest framing each video on the page where you embed the video. (Course 1 in the ePortfolio Sample shows what a one-sample structure might look like; Course 2 in the Sample shows what a three-sample structure might look like.)