Reflecting on my ePortfolio

Your target audience is one thing to remember while creating your ePortfolio.  Create your pages, visuals, and materials for your readers to reflect your learning and your progress.  By maintaining a clean and simple layout for your readers so they don't lose focus on your goal, presenting yourself!  However, make it fun and engaging.  

When creating your ePortfolio, it’s important to provide authentic work and present your ideas and thoughts for a clear message to the reader.  Include all relevant information but provide quality over quantity.  The opportunity to share this new knowledge publicly with people other than the instructors helps the learner to deepen their understanding, demonstrate the flexibility of knowledge, find their unique voice, establish a sense of purpose, and develop a greater sense of personal significance (Bass, 2014).  Often, when one has a thought, they need a platform to speak it.  There’s really not a place in the corporate world to broadcast those thoughts.  Most companies don’t have a platform for workers to express their ideas to the company.  The ePortfolio allows you to express your opinions, thoughts, and learning in a meaningful way and dig deeper into them.  Organizational peers can view these thoughts and add to them to create an opportunity for growth for the company.  

Having an ePortfolio is a modern approach in a digital world. With the advancements in technology, one would not only want to showcase one's work in writing but also provide examples of it. What better way to do this than an ePortfolio.  Potential employers are looking for leaders in their fields.  With so many qualified applicants, one has to stand out and be memorable.   A black-and-white resume never worked for me, but when I added color, the interviewer would comment on how they remembered my resume. It stood out from the others with its color scheme.  They saw that I took an extra step to make myself stand out.  The ePortfolio has the same concept: make it shine and reflect yourself. 

Employers have told me they won't read past the first page of a paper resume.  So reading about your goals and accomplishments past page one won't happen on a traditional resume. However, employers will click the links to learn more about you if you have an engaging ePortfolio. The more you include about yourself, including but not limited to your professional goals, accomplishments, leadership roles, and organizational skills, the better it will be for employers to determine if you are the best fit for the job.  The opportunity to show your previous accomplishments to potential employers will help you stand out in our new digital world.  

I aim to become part of the digital world within my school district. The ePortfolio will help highlight my qualifications since I have no technology background. It will showcase my willingness to learn and advance in the digital world. By including all the projects through the master's courses, I will showcase not only my authentic work but also how to apply my knowledge of technology to enhance and transform the learning environment.

Reference

Bass, R. (2014). Social pedagogies in ePortfolio practices: Principles for design and

impact. Retrieved from http://c2l.mcnrc.org/pedagogy/ped-analysis/