e-portfolios can help students show off their work in a format that employers would like (graphic/Giulia Forsythe)
One of the key areas that I wanted to focus on this academic year was to create classes that would be beneficial to the local community. According to the Associate Dean and other colleagues of mine, a key skill set that could help the local community was knowing how to create e-Portfolios. For those not familiar with e-Portfolios, e-Portfolios are a combination resume, website, blog, and portfolio. There seemed to be a couple of standards that e-Portfolios followed. So, I proposed an e-Portfolio workshop that was one-third resume-building seminar, one-third career counseling and one-third website development. The main purpose of the class is to show the student how to create a website that allows them to promote themselves to prospective employers. I wanted the format to be flexible enough to accommodate a wide variety of career while at the same time could be narrowed to focus on one field of study. I’ve included the syllabus in the post.
Dr. Shane Tilton is an associate professor at Ohio Northern University. He was awarded the 2018 Young Stationers’ Prize & twice awarded Outstanding Adviser honors from the Society for Collegiate Journalists in 2015 (Outstanding New Adviser) and 2018 (Outstanding Adviser). His published works include the role of journalism in society, the role of new media systems on culture and the pedagogy of gaming. His work on social media and university life earned him the BEA 2013 Harwood Dissertation Award.
