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• Introduction Why build an ePortfolio?
• An ePortfolio is a purposeful collection of work
  that is posted online to A) represents an
  individual's or organization's efforts, progress
  and achievements over time, B) indicates evidence
  of the attainment of knowledge, skills and
  attitudes, C) represent self-reflection
  concerning personal perspectives and
  philosophies, D) facilitate life-long learning
  and career development.
• An ePortfolio is tangible proof of your work and
  abilities. It can help you demonstrate and
  effectively document your knowledge,
  achievements, and skills. Constructing an
  ePortfolio can also improve your technical skills
  through using interactive multimedia artifacts
  and software. The following are some of the
  advantages of assembling an ePortfolio
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• Functionality
• ePortfolios can be seen as a low-cost digital
  repository that allows easy access to one's data,
  files, and resources. This feature can also help
  users to backup their files in case of emergency.
  Because of their low cost, ease of use, and
  practicality, portfolios can be considered a very
  functional tool to use for different purposes,
  anywhere, anytime. ePortfolios also can be easily
  constructed, customized, and shared which add
  more efficiency to them. In addition, users of
  ePortfolios can modify the contents of the
  digital portfolio to meet specific goals and
  manage access to different interested viewers
  such as employers, instructors, learners, or
  colleagues. ePortfolios allow users to present
  and organize their artifacts in a wide range of
  media types such as texts, images, links, files,
  audio and video clips. All these artifacts can be
  easily linked together and with other content in
  the ePortfolio. For example, "a student can link
  a piece of work to a statement describing a
  particular curriculum standard and to an
  explanation of why the piece of work meets that
  standard" (Helen Barrett).

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• Personal and Professional Development
• An ePortfolio has great potential for improving
  professional development and success by
  demonstrating and tracking an individual's growth
  and progress over time. It is an effective
  approach to maximize self-awareness by
  identifying and underlining one's strengths and
  weaknesses. Furthermore, creating an ePortfolio
  can be an effective way to shape or empower the
  owner's personal and professional advancement
  towards his or her own standards.

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• Collaboration
• ePortfolios are considered a powerful integrative
  environment where learners can expand their
  knowledge, exchange their ideas, and provide
  assistance or feedback to each other. They
  establish engaging and productive spaces to help
  the owners to work collaboratively and share
  formal or informal information in multiple
  interactive ways. Such an instructional
  environment can help to enhance learners'
  engagement, motivation, and positive attitudes
  toward learning. Further, by providing effective
  collaborative tools (e.g. social networking
  tools, group communication tools, forums),
  ePortfolios help to increase communication and
  social interaction across various disciplines and
  media.

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• Assessment Reflection
• ePortfolios play a great role in promoting the
  owners' assessment and reflection on each others
  work as well as their own. Employers, for
  example, can utilize ePortfolios to evaluate
  their employees' performance, skills, and
  expertise. In educational context, however,
  teachers can use ePortfolio to observe their
  students' achievement and growth during the
  learning process. By doing so, teachers can
  measure their students competency and provide
  any needed support. Moreover, through providing
  reflective spaces and practices, ePortfolios can
  help to improve the learners' self-assessment
  skills, to demonstrate their weaknesses and
  strengths, and to take ownership of their own
  learning.

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• Dynamic Personal Learning Environment
• ePortfolios provide unique avenues for promoting
  deep learning and skill building opportunities
  for their developers. They offer a
  technology-enhanced environment for the users to
  collaborate, share, engage, inspire, exhibit, and
  reflect. ePortfolios also present a rich setting
  for learners to make connections between their
  own prior knowledge and new knowledge or between
  other people's different learning experiences. By
  displaying knowledge in multiple media,
  ePortfolios can support and reach the needs of
  all learners in several interactive ways. Owners
  of ePortfolios can potentially have access to
  different private and public digital resources
  offered in many virtual communities. In addition,
  they can utilize various multimedia tools to
  build new skills or improve existing ones such as
  technical, communication, or goal setting skills.

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• What to include in an ePortfolio?
• ePortfolio Components
• In order to determine what to include in your
  ePortfolio, you need to first identify your
  ePortfolio purpose, type, and audience. These
  factors should always be considered when deciding
  on which content to include. For example, the
  contents of your ePortfolio will vary depending
  on your primary audiences and how you want to
  present yourself to them. However, generally,
  there are no specific rules on what to include in
  your ePortfolio, yet certain components and
  features are essential.

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• Biography
• An ePortfolio, and your biography in particular,
  gives you a simple and practical opportunity to
  represent yourself effectively. Biography is
  basically a brief, easy-to-read, narrative
  version of your resume, but with more emphases on
  your personality. The components of your bio
  typically begin with your basic information such
  as your name, contact info, email address, and
  your current occupation. Your biography should
  have a description of your educational background
  such as where and when you went to school and
  what degrees you earned. It should also contain
  personal information such as your place of birth,
  and where you currently reside. Besides stating
  your current work position, a summarized
  description of your professional background,
  experiences, and accomplishments should also be
  provided (note that biography is usually written
  in the third person). In this section of your
  ePortfolio, you could share a brief personal
  narrative about your interests, activities, life,
  and family. While it is very important to
  highlight your major skills, awards,
  achievements, and qualifications, it is even more
  important to document your development and update
  your biography regularly.

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• Educational Background
• In this section, you should include a brief
  description of your educational background and
  academic training. Your educational
  qualifications should be listed in reverse
  chronological order starting from most recent to
  least recent. For each entry in your educational
  list, you should provide the name and location of
  institutions you have attended, your degrees,
  majors, minors, and the actual or anticipated
  date of graduation (month and year). To show your
  academic excellence, list honors, awards,
  training certificates, publications, professional
  licenses, conferences, workshops, study abroad
  programs, internships, and scholarships. In
  addition, you could include any relevant
  projects, coursework, testimonials, GPA scores,
  transcripts, continuing education, major test
  results, presentations, and professional
  affiliations and memberships.

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• Professional Experience
• This part of your ePortfolio should consist of
  your professional background, goals, and skills.
  It should also convey how your experiences and
  skills are well suited to your professional goals
  and to the careers you are seeking. Since it is
  preferable to use a reverse chronological order
  when listing your jobs, you always should start
  listing your most recent position and work
  experience to the oldest. For each position,
  include the names and locations of employing
  organizations, job titles, dates of employment
  (month/year), references, their contact
  information, and your job's duties and
  responsibilities. Use bullet points-description
  when illustrating your job's duties and
  accomplishments. Try to use a consistent and
  simple style and layout to make this section easy
  to read and review as possible.

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• A strong ePortfolio should successfully express
  your objectives and expertise. Therefore, you
  should identify and highlight your professional
  goals and demonstrate skills related to your
  previous or current careers. Articulate precisely
  what do you stand for? What do you aspire to do
  with your career? Where do you see yourself in
  two to five years? What are some of your
  strengths? And, what are your short-term and
  long-term goals? As well as your educational
  background, you need to emphasize your abilities
  and knowledge. Document certificates of any
  additional training and workshops, certification
  of technical skills, awards and honors, a scanned
  copy of your resume, your transcript, volunteer
  work and community services, major projects,
  publications, internships, leadership,
  communication, public speaking, foreign language
  skills, and any conferences or seminars you have
  attended.

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• Performance and Skills
• To make your ePortfolio stand out from the
  others, it is important to display evidence of
  your performance and skills. Therefore, your
  ePortfolio should consist of a detailed
  examination of your skills therefore, you should
  state the name of the skill area the knowledge
  or personal traits that contribute to your
  success in that skill area your background and
  specific experiences that demonstrate your
  application of the skill tamu.edu. Besides
  illustrating your education and professional
  skills, including your personal and
  extracurricular skills can greatly boost the
  effectiveness of your ePortfolio. However, you
  should always keep your ePortfolio's purpose and
  audience in mind when deciding what activities to
  include. Examples of good personal and
  extracurricular activities include voluntary
  work, technical skills, writing skills,
  internships, study abroad, communication skills,
  teaching, public speaking, personal learning
  activities, foreign languages skills, sports
  participation, military service, clubs
  involvement, leadership positions, and
  professional affiliations or memberships.

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• Evidence of competencies
• Regardless of your ePortfolio's purpose and type,
  you should always include evidence of your
  competence in your area of expertise. By doing
  so, you can effectively represent the various
  levels of your attainment and illustrate a wide
  range of your skills, knowledge, and abilities to
  your ePortfolio's viewers (e.g. Prospective
  employers, clients, teachers, colleagues, etc.).
  Samples of your work can be in various formats
  and media types such as text files, images,
  links, graphics, audio clips, video clips,
  electronic presentations, documents, database
  projects, and other multimedia formats. Each
  sample of work in your ePortfolio is called an
  artifact. All of the artifacts included should
  have a purpose, overview of goals, social
  importance, and expected learning outcomes. To
  make your ePortfolio more meaningful, you should
  associate reflections with your artifacts to
  demonstrate and deepen your understanding and
  growth over time in each domain. Depending on
  your ePortfolio's type, your artifacts should
  either display your best work, demonstrate your
  development and growth over time, document you
  progress for assessment purposes, or all of that.
  Therefore, your reflection should be based on the
  objectives, standards, and the expected learning
  outcomes of your artifacts or the whole
  ePortfolio. Reflect particularly on what you have
  learned and how your work illustrates the
  learning outcomes. Use self-assessment tools to
  analyze your own progress in the process of
  learning. Examples of artifacts include
  publications, electronic presentations, audio and
  video projects, assignments, research papers,
  writing samples, a copy of your resume as well as
  any other materials that can be added to your
  ePortfolio to represent your knowledge and show a
  proof of your proficiency.

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• Philosophical Statements
• The philosophy that guides your use of
  educational technology goes here. By identifying
  continuously examining, testifying, and verifying
  your philosophy you will foster your professional
  and personal growth. Your philosophy is a
  personal statement about your evolving beliefs
  that includes your conception of teaching and
  learning, a description of how best to integrate
  technology in your teaching, and a justification
  for why you use educational technology. A
  meaningful philosophy demonstrates that you are
  purposeful and reflective about your teaching and
  that you are able to articulate your goals and
  actions.

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• Awards and Honors
• Since ePortfolios are mainly used to represent
  your capabilities and competence in your field,
  you should include collections of any honors and
  kudos received awards and accolades won
  certificates and training taken and promotions
  or performance appraisals given. Memberships in
  professional or educational organizations you
  have had, as well as conferences, seminars, and
  workshops you have attended can also be included.
  In addition, you may want to contain a list of
  your recognitions, credentials, scholarships,
  published works, commissions, and accomplishments.

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• Home or Front Page
• Some of the aforementioned components can be
  placed in the front page of your ePortfolio,
  which may be called the 'Home' or 'About Me'
  page. In this page, you can articulate the
  purpose of your ePortfolio by giving an overview
  of what your site is about and a bit about what
  potential visitors will find in your ePortfolio.
  To make your ePortfolio more interesting to view,
  you can include some appropriate academic or
  personal photos and graphics.

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• ePortfolio in Education
• Student Portfolio
• ePortfolios allow students to reflect on their
  learning, communicate with instructors, document
  credentials, or provide potential employers with
  examples of their work.
• A student ePortfolio could be for college,
  potential internships, or a job after college. No
  matter when you create one, you should
  continually update it as you grow and acquire
  skills, knowledge, and experience. Building a
  high quality ePortfolio will take time and effort
  so it is much easier to keep it up to date as you
  improve yourself. You should take control of your
  ePortfolio and include pieces of work or
  accomplishments that you are proud of. Add your
  favorite pieces of work from classes, work, or
  just personal time as you create them to avoid
  forgetting them later on down the road. Since an
  ePortfolio can contain almost anything, it is
  great way to show off what is important to you
  and highlight your best skills or talents you
  possess.
• As an added benefit, ePortfolios provide an
  opportunity for the student and faculty to
  reflect on the students skills and achievements.
  By keeping your ePortfolio up to date, you will
  gain a greater understanding of your personal
  growth, which can aid in career planning,
  building a resume, and setting goals. A great
  ePortfolio will make great strides in taking you
  wherever you decide to go by being memorable and
  not only demonstrating the quality of your work
  and level of skill, but will also exhibit in
  demand skills such as professionalism, technical
  knowhow, organizational skill, creativity, and
  dedication to your craft.

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• Building a Student ePortfolio
• When building an ePortfolio, you should always
  consider the audience. Are you applying for
  college? Perhaps you would like to just share
  your work with a faculty member. Attempt to
  tailor your ePortfolio to your audience by
  highlighting the specific skills you wish to show
  off. If you are applying to college, what is your
  intended major? If it is a special program, what
  skills do you want to show you have to be
  developed? If you are preparing to find a job or
  internship what specific skills are required in
  the intended field?
• You may include
• Resume Information
• Your educational background.
• Your work experience.
• Your progress toward a degree including
  coursework.
• Personal Belief Statements
• Your philosophy of education.
• Why you decided to become a teacher.
• Reflections on what you have learned.
• How you will integrate technology into your
  teaching.
• Your teaching goals
• Web sites and reading that reflect your
  philosophy of teaching
• Personal statements for how you will implement
  educational standards related to your teaching
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• Organizing
• Before attempting to delve into the task of
  building a complete ePortfolio, it is necessary
  to take time to outline and organize your ideas.
  Know your audience and what pieces you want to
  highlight. List the pieces you will include.
  Decide on an overarching theme and style. What
  will be the first page your audience will see?
  What will your layout be like? How will divide up
  the content? Is it too confusing or unintuitive
  to navigate? These are important questions you
  must address before creating an ePortfolio. There
  may be times, significant life events like
  graduation, which you will have to create a new
  or overhaul an old ePortfolio. These large-scale
  changes will be much easier done on paper than in
  your actual ePortfolio.
• Faculty Portfolio
• A Faculty ePortfolio is a place where a teacher
  can showcase their style and teaching ability in
  a public and professional manner. An ePortfolio
  can serve many purposes for faculty. They may be
  looking for a job or up for tenure and need a
  showcase for their abilities, used to share
  knowledge and collaborate between colleagues or
  peers, or as with any ePortfolio can be built for
  personal reflection and growth. A well-built
  ePortfolio will benefit the teacher and their
  students as it is a great way to document past
  endeavors and successes and reflect on what went
  poorly or well. It allows the teacher to refine
  their philosophies accordingly and to continue to
  experiment and grow as a teacher.
• An ePortfolio is a living document that must be
  continually updated in an effort to showcase
  ones best work. The emphasis is always on
  quality not quantity. Always, the materials
  should be carefully selected to demonstrate your
  own personal style and best works. A carelessly
  put together ePortfolio can do as much damage as
  a well thought out one can aid in success.

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• Building a Faculty ePortfolio
• A Faculty ePortfolio should contain documentation
  of your teaching practices. It should never stop
  growing, but it may need to be trimmed as well to
  avoid becoming a massive pile of all your work
  that does not demonstrate your growth and
  reflection. Again, the emphasis should be on your
  best accomplishments and achievements.
• You may include
• Your education philosophy and teaching goals.
• Lesson plans, curricula, or assignments.
• Videos of classes.
• Documentation of your teaching success or
  achievements.
• Reflections and what you have learned from
  previous efforts.
• Any applicable published works or research.
• Past evaluations by supervisors.
• Organizing
• ePortfolios should be easy to navigate and have
  an overarching theme and style. Decide ahead of
  time what artifacts you will include and how they
  will fit together and be presented. Avoid piling
  everything together on a page. Instead present
  the most important pieces and personal reflection
  on each. Decide what will be immediately noticed
  upon arriving at the first page of an ePortfolio.
  How will users navigate your ePortfolio? Again,
  remember to keep it simple and highlight what you
  are most proud of.

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• Other Types of ePortfolios
• Working ePortfolio (Working, Developmental,
  Process, or Growth ePortfolio)
• A working ePortfolio is used to show evidence of
  growth and skill development over time. The
  process of the learning is emphasized in the
  working ePortfolio more than the product. The
  items represented in the working ePortfolio are
  mainly a collection of all pieces that the owner
  has developed along with their reflection in
  relation to a specific project, for example,
  early and late samples of one's work throughout a
  school year. This type of ePortfolio is used to
  convey the owners strengths and weaknesses and
  keep track of their advancement of a specific
  skill that they acquired during the learning
  period.

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• Assessment ePortfolio (Assessment, Reflective, or
  Learning ePortfolio)
• An assessment ePortfolio is used to examine
  competencies and progress towards specific
  standards or goals. Assessment ePortfolios
  developers are expected to reflect on the
  intended learning outcomes of their artifacts.
  The owners are also allowed to receive feedback
  or suggestions from their ePortfolios viewers.
  One of the important aims for this type of
  ePortfolio is to document the achievement of the
  owners for grading and evaluating purposes.

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• Showcase ePortfolio (Showcase, Display, Best
  Work, or Representational ePortfolio)
• A showcase ePortfolio is used to display one's
  best work and performance in particular areas.
  This type of ePortfolio highlights the product of
  the learning more than the process. The showcase
  ePortfolio is usually shared to show the best
  evidence of an individual's work such as sharing
  an ePortfolio with potential employers as a job
  resume or with a teacher to evaluate the overall
  achievement at the end of the semester.

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• Hybrids
• Most portfolios are hybrids of the three types of
  portfolios listed above. Rarely will you find a
  portfolio that is strictly used for assessment,
  development or showcase purposes. Occasionally,
  you may come across showcase portfolios that do
  not show evidence of self-reflection, rubrics for
  assessment or feedback, however, as Helen
  Barrett, an expert in the field of e-portfolios,
  would say "a portfolio without standards, goals
  and/or reflection is just a fancy resume, not an
  electronic portfolio."

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• Professional ePortfolio
• This type of ePortfolios allow job seekers to
  demonstrate their skills and capabilities to
  prospective employers by presenting official
  evidence of their best work. Therefore, it is
  especially important to demonstrate one's
  qualifications and credentials when constructing
  an ePortfolio. In addition, an ePortfolio is an
  effective way to exhibit ones professional and
  personal development that he or she has obtained
  over time. Creating an ePortfolio can also help
  keep one's resume current by managing and
  organizing his or her progress and artifacts.
  Employers will often use ePortfolios to identify
  the best candidate for a particular job.

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• Personal ePortfolio
• A personal ePortfolio is an online private
  portfolio where one can document, create, share,
  and communicate in a virtual environment.

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• Project ePortfolio
• A project ePortfolio documents information,
  goals, and results of a specific study.

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