August 5, 2009

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E-Portfolio Class and Workflow

Session Title: Creating an Electronic Portfolio: Developing a Professional Presence on the Web Electronic Portfolios (e-Portfolios) are becoming standard practice for academics, students, and professionals. e-Portfolios are dynamic developmental spaces representing your professional "self" on the Web, They are generally comprised of examples of skill and achievement as well as a reflective blog element. This hands-on workshop is designed to get attendees comfortable publishing on the Web right from the start.

Prerequisites:

  1. Activate your personal web space by completing the Application Web Space form. Please do this at least two days prior to the workshop to ensure your web space is available.
  2. Look over the information at The Blogs at Penn State site
  3. Start thinking about what you want to include in your portfolio including:
    1. A name for your portfolio space
    2. What you want to include, e.g. photos, multimedia, writings, and other samples
    3. Topics you are interested in writing about. Examples include, personal and professional projects you're involved with, issues relating to your career, topics of interest in your field.

Objectives: In this workshop you will practice publishing to the web by:

  1. Creating your portfolio space.
  2. Writing a reflective blog post.
  3. Searching and commenting on the blogs of others.
  4. Adding additional material to your portfolio, including tabs and media.
  5. Using tags and categories to organize content.
  6. Advice on keeping a vibrant portfolio.


Overall goal is that a description like this will come through the Communication Group for editing

  1. We are creating an email alias for project managers to submit content to
  2. We would like the content to be reviewed by the content group before it is submitted by the project manager to Heather Ormsby
    • If the content does get to Heather first it should be re-routed back to the Communications Group for editing
    • The Communications Group wants to let project managers know that content needs to be edited before it goes to Heather


TLA

  1. Audrey created a draft section and subpages for TLA on the TLT site: https://tlt.its.psu.edu/tla/
    • She has made pages for faculty and students
      • Where will the faculty form reside?
        • Mark currently has the faculty form residing in his personal space
        • We want to have the form reside on the faculty page; the form will need to be built on the TLT landing page but the data is sent to Mark's Google doc
        • The student form will reside on the student page
    • She has put in the framework HTML that is on the other springboard/landing pages that we can edit
      • Audrey will need to give Mark access to the landing pages

Mark will go through the "old" TLA site to edit the content

  1. He will send his edits to the Communication Group for review by COB 8/7
  2. The Communications Group will put the edited content onto the landing pages by COB 8/15


  1. JTH wants a letter to the ACUE Deans for student recruiting
  2. JTH also wants a letter to Department Heads to send to their faculty to sign up for TLAs

We are transitioning from the old TLA Drupal site and moving it to the TLT site

  1. We should wait until the landing pages are live before we send any announcements

Upcoming to-dos

  1. Students
    • Fall 101 Collegian issue (Derick will get date from Dan Lerman)
    • Note from JTH to ACUE Deans
    • Student Newswire announcement (week of 8/18)
    • ITS Student Web site (week of 8/18)
    • This Squirrel fan page and twitter feed (week of 8/18)
    • Student Involvement Fair (8/24 & 8/25)
  2. Faculty
    • Note from JTH to Department Heads
    • TLT Web site spotlight story (week of 8/18)


Digital Commons name rebranding timeline

Chris Millet shared a Google Doc with Derick with information about the DC rebranding

There is also a wiki space for the rebranding at http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/wiki/Digital_Commons_Rebranding


Any announcements you want to post to the Training News Feed?

John is looking for "fresh" content, so let me know if you have any training related info to post for the start of the semester.

  1. Mary is waiting for approval


TLT Communications Group alias and listserv

  1. Barb said that we need to create a listserv first
  2. Derick will work with Barb to get the listserv and alias created
    • The name will be "tltcomm"
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